Thomas F. Reid

Assistant Professor
Applied and Industrial Mathematics

The University of South Carolina Aiken

Department of Mathematical Sciences

471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC 29801

Email: thomasr@usca.edu

Phone: (803) 641-3536

Fax: (803) 641-3726

Office: Penland 237L

Office Hours
Spring 2006
Mondays 2:00-3:00
Tuesdays 1:00-2:00
Wednesdays 11:00-12:00
Thursdays 1:00-2:00
Fridays 11:00-12:00

or by appointment
In Class or Meetings
Spring 2006
Mondays 12:00-1:50
4:00-5:00		 AMTH 141 (PEN 213)
Dept Mtg (PEN 225)
Tuesdays 3:05-4:20
4:30-5:45		 ASTA 509 (PEN 235)
AMTH 519 (PEN 235)
Wednesdays 12:00-1:50 AMTH 141 (PEN 213)
Thursdays 3:05-4:20
4:30-5:45		 ASTA 509 (PEN 235)
AMTH 519 (PEN 235)
Fridays 12:00-1:50 AMTH 141 (PEN 213)

Mathematical Competition in Modeling

Every February, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) holds the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM).  During an intensive four-day period (8:00 pm Thursday - 8:00 pm Monday), teams of three undergraduate students tackle a real-world problem.  They compete against teams from around the world, including MIT, Oxford, and Harvard. 

In 2004, we had two teams compete in the MCM.  The team of Nichole Ellis, Cristhine Kraft, and Michelle Williams received a rating of "Meritorious" for their solution to Problem A: "Are Fingerprints Unique?"  That rating put them in the top 10% of competing teams! 

Presentations

Estimation of Mean Contamination Using Bootstrap and PPCC

(INFORMS APS: 7/7/2005) - PowerPoint and PDF
(SRNL: 3/30/2006) - PowerPoint and PDF

Mathematical Modeling of Simple Mechanical Systems (VSU: 2/24/2006) - PDF

Pendulum Experiment for Nonlinear Differential Equations (VSU: 2/25/2005) - PowerPoint and Handout

TI-83 Tutorial for ASME (9/18/2004) - Handout and Experiment

Spring 2006 Teaching Assignment

AMTH 141-002 - Applied Calculus I

AMTH 519-300 - Industrial Mathematics II

ASTA 509-001 - Statistics

Recent Teaching Assignments

AMTH 108  

Applied College Algebra

 SP03/05

AMTH 170  

Finite Mathematics

 FA02

AMTH 141  

Calculus I

 FA03,SP04/05

AMTH 142  

Calculus II

 FA04

AMTH 518  

Industrial Mathematics I

 FA02-05

AMTH 519  

Industrial Mathematics II

 SP03-06

ASTA 509  

Statistics

 SP03-06

ASTA 510  

Statistical Quality Assurance

 FA02-05
AEDU N635A Stat's for Middle School Teachers SP05
AEDU N635C Problem Solving for MS Teachers SU05

Education

University of Oklahoma, B.S. in Mathematics (1982)

Air Force Institute of Technology, M.S. in Operations Research (1987)

University of North Carolina, Ph.D. in Operations Research (1997)

Background

I served in the US Air Force from 1982-2002. Of all the things I did, one of the most interesting was working on the F-22 stealth fighter operational test plan. That job combined a lot of statistics and computer simulation, along with a fair amount of travel. It was a blast! My last (and arguably the best) Air Force job was teaching mathematics and statistics at the Air Force Institute of Technology. While there, I worked with Dr Mark Oxley on locally stationary processes and with Dr Dennis Quinn on bioinformatics. 

In 2002, I retired from the Air Force and came to USCAiken, where I teach Applied and Industrial Mathematics and Statistics.

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