Glenn Downing



Experience


Years Company Title
2024- The University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor of Instruction
2003-24 The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor of Instruction
1995-03 The University of Texas at Austin Adjunct Faculty
1991-96 Corporate Memory Systems, Inc. Software Engineer
1985-91 Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation Software Engineer
1985-87 The University of Texas at Austin Adjunct Faculty
1984-85 Los Alamos National Laboratory Software Engineer
1993-84 The University of Texas at Austin Adjunct Faculty
1978-82 Jet Propulsion Laboratory Software Engineer
1975-77 Draper Software Engineer

Education


Years University Degree
1982-83 The University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. program in CS
1977-78 Stanford University Ph.D. program in Aero / Astro
1975-77 M.I.T. M.S. in Aero / Astro
1973-75 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign B.S. in Physics
1970-72 Purdue University

Awards


Years Title
2020 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award
2018 Nominated for Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards
2013 College of Natural Sciences Golden Apple Teaching Excellence Award
2006 College of Natural Sciences Foundation Advisory Council Awards
2002 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

Papers & Patents


Years Title Co-Authors
2004 Data Sharing in Scientific Simulations
Computing in Science and Engineering (CISE)
Paul Dubois
Teresa Bottom
1998 System and Method for Initializing Variables in an Object-Oriented Program
U.S. Patent No. 6,708,181
James Peterson
Ron Rockhold
1996 Being Lazy About Global-Object Initialization
Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP)

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