About

Howard E. Motteler has worked in radio and television and as an academic support and systems programmer at the University of Puget Sound and Purdue University. He was an associate professor of computer science in the UMBC CSEE department and then research associate professor at JCET. He retired from that position but later returned to JCET as a research associate scientist.

Research interests

Dr. Motteler's research interests are in the areas of scientific
computation and applications, including instrument modeling and calibration, passive infrared and microwave sounding, atmospheric radiative transfer calculations, and parallel and distributed processing.

Teaching interests

Dr. Motteler has taught the following courses at the upper division or graduate level: Parallel and Distributed Processing, Numerical Computation, Operating Systems, Logic for Computer Science, Principles of Programming Languages, Symbolic and Algebraic Processing, Analysis of Algorithms, Theory of Processes, Semantics and Program Verification, Automata Theory and Formal Languages, and Theory of Computation.

Education

  • Ph D, Computer Science — University of Maryland at College Park (1987)
    A Mathematical Model of Static Dataflow
  • MS, Computer Science — Purdue University (1982)
  • BS, Mathematics — University of Puget Sound (1980)
  • Other, Flute Performance — Pacific Lutheran University (1974)