SSCI Developers
The current development team combines expertise in signals and systems processing and educational assessment. Professors John Buck and Kathleen Wage began developing the SSCI exams in 2000. Professor Margret Hjalmarson joined the SSCI project in 2005.
Bios
John R. Buck received S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and humanities (English literature) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989, and subsequently received S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Ocean and Electrical Engineering in 1991, 1992, and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include signal processing, underwater acoustics, animal bioacoustics, and engineering education. Dr. Buck is the co-author of the textbooks "Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Second Edition" by Oppenheim and Schafer with Buck (Prentice-Hall, 1999) and "Computer Explorations in Signals and Systems Using Matlab (TM), Second Edition" by Buck, Daniel and Singer (Prentice-Hall, 2001). He is a past recipient of the IEEE Education Society's Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award (2005), a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship (2003), an ONR Young Investigator Award (2000) and an NSF CAREER award (1998). In 1994, he received the Goodwin Medal, MIT's highest honor for graduate student instructors. Dr. Buck is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the IEEE, the American Society for Engineering Education, and Sigma Xi.
Kathleen E. Wage received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1990, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 1994, 1996, and 2000, respectively. Since 1999 she has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at George Mason University (GMU), where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include signal processing, adaptive arrays, underwater acoustics, and engineering education. Dr. Wage received an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2005 and an ONR Ocean Acoustics Entry-Level Faculty Award in 2002. She received the Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award from the IEEE Education Society in 2008 and the Outstanding Teaching Award from GMU's Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering in 2004. As a graduate student she received the Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award from the MIT EECS department (1994). Dr. Wage is a member of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Society for Engineering Education, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Margret A. Hjalmarson received the B.A. degree in Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in 1998, the M.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from Purdue University in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Since 2004, she has been an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. Currently, she is also Program Coordinator for the Mathematics Education Leadership M.Ed. and Ph.D. programs and Director of the Mathematics Education Center. Dr. HjalmarsonÕs research interests span engineering education, student learning and assessment, mathematics curriculum and design research. She is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Mathematical Association of America, the American Educational Research Association, International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, and the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics.