Charles Cooley

Charles Cooley began teaching at EMU in 1999. He received his bachelor’s degree from Roanoke College where he majored in mathematics, computer science and statistics. After two years studying Software Engineering (specifically object-oriented programming language code reusablity metrics) in the CS graduate program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Charles took a supposedly part-time, one-year teaching position at Concord College in Athens, West Virginia. After a few years of full-time teaching, Charles moved to Harrisonburg and completed a master’s degree in computer science at James Madison University. Before returning to teaching, Charles worked as a Network Analyst and System Engineer. In 2007 with the merger of the CIS and CS programs, Charles began working in the EMU Institutional Research and Effectiveness Office half-time, but resumed full-time teaching to implement the new CS curriculum in 2008.

B.S., Roanoke College, 1989
M.S., James Madison University, 1994

Is it really just all ones and zeroes?, Mennonite Schools Council conference,
     Eastern Mennonite University, April 8, 2011.
Moodle Pedagogy, Tuesday Luncheon,
     Eastern Mennonite University, Nov 1, 2011.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 

SIGCSE 2012: Teaching, Learning, and Collaborating
     The 43^rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
     Raleigh, North Carolina, USA – Feb. 29-Mar. 3, 2012.

Topics: Smart Phone Technology, Fall 2013
Introduction to Programming: Python, Fall 2013
Automata Theory and Application, Spring 2011
Foundations of Mathematics, Fall 2010
Databases and Information Management (new lab setup), Spring 2010
System Administration, Spring 2010
Analysis of Algorithms, Spring 2009
Intermediate Programming: Java, Spring 2009
Introduction to Programming: Visual Basic, Fall 2008
Data Structures (using Java), Fall 2008
Architecture and Operating Systems, Spring 2008

Member, EMU Faculty Senate, 2012
Member, Suter Science Center Design Concept Committee, 2012
Member, Task Force on Classroom Technology and Distance Learning (2010-12)
Editor, Integram, departmental news letter
Curator, department web site
Member, ISPC, Information Systems Planning Committee (1999-2009)