CURRICULUM VITAE

CARLOS G. SPAHT, II

MATH DEPARTMENT, LSU-SHREVEPORT

SHREVEPORT, LA 71115

PHONE: (318) 797-5377

EDUCATION

B.S. (Mathematics), Louisiana State University, 1964.

M.S. (Mathematics), Louisiana State University, 1966.

Ph.D. (Mathematics), Louisiana State University, 1970.

HONORS AND AWARDS

· Honor Graduate, LSU, 1964.

· Distinguished Military Graduate, LSU, 1964.

· Teacher of the Year, LSU-Shreveport, 1978.

· Outstanding Faculty Performance Award, LSU-S, 1985; 1994; 1997.

· Outstanding Performance Award,. Shreveport City Council, 1995.

· Outstanding Teaching/Service Award, Mathematical Association of America, 1996.

· The Louisiana/Mississippi Distinguished University Teaching Award, Mathematical Association of America, 1997.

· Louisiana Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation, 1997.

· Governor’s Award of Excellence, 1997.

· Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service in Support of Education, 1998.

· The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting Local Communities, 1998.

· LSUS Foundation Award for dedicated service to and innovation in education, 1998.

· Appreciation Award, Shreveport City Council

· Volunteer of the Year, The Lighthouse of The Volunteers of America, 1999. (See WORK EXPERIENCE)

· The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, 2000.

· Alumni Hall of Distinction, University High School, 2001

· Award for Outstanding Public Service and Innovation in Education, The LSUS Alpha Guard, 2001.

· SWEPCO- LaPREP Endowed Professorship, 2001-Present.

· The Carl Survine Memorial Award for Outstanding and Compassionate Volunteer Services Given to The Lighthouse of The Volunteers of America, The Volunteers of America, 2002.

· Memberships: Pi Mu Epsilon; Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa;

North Louisiana Mathematical Association (past Chair of Auditing Committee, past Treasurer and President of Mathematics Section); Mathematical Association of America (Louisiana Vice Chair of LA-MS section, 1999); National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; American Society for Engineering Education.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1970-1972 Captain, U.S. Army. Worked as an Operations Research Analyst in support of the Chief of Staff of the Army at the Pentagon.

1972-Present Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Mathematics, LSU-Shreveport.

1981-1986 Chairman, Department of Mathematics, LSU-Shreveport.

1992-Present Director, Louisiana Preparatory Program (LaPREP). Designed, developed, directs, and acquires sources of funding for this enrichment program for high-ability middle and high school students that takes place

on the LSU-Shreveport campus for two consecutive summers, seven weeks per summer. Its goal is to encourage and instruct its participants to successfully complete a college program, preferably in math or the sciences.

1996-2001 Chair, Department of Mathematics, LSU-Shreveport.

1996-Present Founder and Director, Math Helpers, Inc., an organization composed of faculty members and students, who tutor inner-city youth in the Shreveport/Bossier area.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

t “LaPREP: An Enrichment Program in Engineering and Science That is Working,” The Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, pp. 287-291.

t “Louisiana Preparatory Program (LaPREP): Math and Science Enrichment for Grades 7-10,” Louisiana Academy of Sciences (vol. 61) 1999:13-18.

t “LaPREP: A Highly Successful Enrichment Program and Its Discrete Math and Probability and Statistics Components,” The Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference,(coauthor, W. Conway Link), 1999.

t “LaPREP: Louisiana’s Successful Enrichment Program and Its Engineering and Discrete Math/Probability and Statistics Components”, The Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, (coauthor, W. Conway Link), 2000.

t “LaPREP: Louisiana Preparatory Program (LaPREP): A Highly Successful Engineering and Science Enrichment Program for Grades 7-9". The Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, 2000.

t “Mathematics Without Words”, The College Mathematics Journal, 32, No. 2, (2001), 109.

t “Demonstrating a Technique for Estimating the Constant of Proportionality in a Commonly Occurring Variation Problem in College Algebra Textbooks”, The Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, (coauthor, W. Conway Link), 2002.

t “Using Cryptology to Demonstrate the Student’s Interest in Mathematics Through Applications of Functions and Their Inverses”, The Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, (coauthors, W. Conway Link, Rogers Martin), 2002.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

¨ “LaPREP: The Program and Its Success,” LA Academy of Sciences Meeting, Hammond LA, 1998.

¨ “LaPREP: The Program and Its Success,” LA/ MS MAA Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 1998.

¨ “LaPREP: An Enrichment Program in Engineering and Science That is Working,”

ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA,1998.

¨ “LaPREP and Its Anti-Drug and Alcohol and Gang-Free Component,” Louisiana Governor’s Conference, 1998.

¨ “LaPREP: The Highly Successful Enrichment Program,” U.S. Department of Energy, National Title III Conference, San Diego, 1998.

¨ “LaPREP: A Highly Successful Enrichment Program and Its Discrete Math and Probability and Statistics Components,” ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, 1999.

¨ “LaPREP: An Enrichment program in Math and Science That is Working”, LATM Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1999.

¨ “LaPREP: Louisiana’s Successful Enrichment Program and Its Engineering and Discrete Math/Probability and Statistics Components”, ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2000.

¨ “LaPREP: Louisiana Preparatory Program (LaPREP): A Highly Successful Engineering and Science Enrichment Program for Grades 7-9", ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2000.

¨ “Replicable Mentoring Practices Taken From My Experience”, PAESMEN Symposium, Washington, D.C., 2000.

¨ “Applications of Algebra, Number Theory and Probability/Statistics”, LATM Conference, Lafayette, LA., 2000.

¨ “Programs for Minority Students”, SUMMA Panel Presentation, Joint AMS/MAA Mathematics Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2001.

¨ “ Successful Enrichment Programs”, Panel Presentation, LA/MS MAA Meeting, Oxford, MS, 2001.

¨ “Elementary Encryption Examples”, LATM Conference, Alexander, LA, 2001.

¨ “Demonstrating a Technique for Estimating the Constant of Proportionality in a Commonly Occurring Variation Problem in College Algebra Textbooks”, ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Lafayette, LA, 2002.

¨ “Using Cryptology to Stimulate a Student’s Interest in Mathematics Through Applications of Functions and Their Inverses”, ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Lafayette, LA, 2002.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Author and co-author of publications in Abstract Algebra, Operations Research, and Enrichment Programs; designed, developed and taught courses for middle and high school teachers; active in community service projects; judge in local, regional, and national science fairs; judge and trainer for teachers in Math Counts competitions.