

Dr.
María Mercedes Larrondo-Petrie
Associate Dean for Academic and International Affairs, and
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering and
Computer Science
Florida Atlantic
University
777 Glades Road, Science & Engineering Building
40, SE 308
P.O. Box 3091, Boca Raton, Florida 33431-0991 USA
Email: petrie@fau.edu
Direct Office: +1 561 297-3899
Assistant:
+1 561 297-2492
Dean's Reception: Linda Hoffman, +1 561 297-3400
Fax: +1 561 297-1111
URL: http://www.eng.fau.edu/homepages/petrie.htm
Office Hours: By appointment
Curriculum Vitae - full CV
Courses
Taught Summer 2009
CGS 1570 - Computer Application 1
(Distance Learning Course)
CGS 1571 - Computer Application 2
(Distance Learning Course)
Instructions for Distance Learning Courses
The lead
Teaching Assistant for the courses is Mr. Wilker Altidor, waltidor@fau.edu,
The Syllabus,
MyFAU and Blackboard website will be up by Tuesday night.
Directions:
1. Buy bundled book package from the bookstore.
there are software licenses bundled in the package, it will cost you
more to purchase books separately
2. If you login to MyFAU.fau.edu
web site you will see the course listed but communications for the
course is done in Blackboard
3. Go to the
FAU Blackboard website: http://bb.fau.edu/
4. Login with your Fau account and password
5. Select the course
6. On Tuesday there will be an announcement posted
7. You will need to check the BlackBoard Course
weekly for assignments and announcements
8. You will need to install the Office 2007 license
in the bundle if you do not have it on your computer, as well as the
MyITLab license -
the bundle should have directions
for you to follow.
9. Mr. Wilker Altidor is your Teaching Assistant for
the course, all assignments and exams questions should be addressed to
him at waltidor@fau.edu
10. The course is done purely online. Please be
alert to your email and Blackboard this first week. There will be
office hours posted in the announcement
Research Interests
Co-Lead of the Secure Systems Research Group - http://www.cse.fau.edu/~security
Latin American Grid - LA
Grid Researcher
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IFEES - International Federation of
Engineering Education Societies Vice President (Americas) - elected 2007 - present Executive Committee Member - Member-At-Large - elected 2006 - present Co-Chair of IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit - appointed 2007 - present Member of IFEES Strategic Planning Committee - appointed 2007 Liaison Representative for LACCEI and UPE |
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ASEE - American Society of Engineering
Education International Division Board - Secretary/Treasurer - elected 2004 - 2006 International Division Web Master - assigned 2006 - present Minorities in Engineering Division Board - Member-At-Large - elected 2003 - Women in Engineering Division - Member since 2004 Software Engineering Constituency - Founding Member |
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LACCEI - Latin American and Caribbean
Consortium of Engineering Institutions Executive Director and Secretary - appointed 2008 Executive Vice President - appointed 2004 - 2008 Vice President of Research - elected 2003 - 2008 Founding Vice President - elected 2002 - 2003 Founding Board of Directors - elected 2002 - present Board of Trustees - appointed 2002 - present Executive Board - elected 2002 - present Administrative Board - appointed 2008 - present Editorial Board of the LACCEI Journal - appointed 2004 - present Liaison Representative to IFEES - appointed 2006 - present |
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UPE - Upsilon Pi Epsilon International
Honor Society for Information and Computing Disciplines Liaison Representative to IFEES - appointed 2006 - present Faculty Advisor for Florida Beta Chapter - 1992 - present International President - elected 1996-1997 Member of International Executive Council - elected 1993 - 1998 Awarded First Place International Leadership Award - 1992 Awarded Academic Achievement Award - 1991-1992 Founding Chapter President of the Florida Beta Chapter - 1990-1992 Inducted 1990 |
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Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Inducted 1985 |
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TBP - Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Faculty Advisor for Florida Epsilon Chapter - 2001 - present Inducted 1990 |
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LA Grid - Latin American Grid
LA Grid Researcher Grid Security
Bioinformatics Data Privacy and
Security
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ACM - Association for Computing Machinery Member of ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee Past Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Science Curriculum Committee Member of ACM SIGGRAPH Member of ACM |
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers Member of IEEE Member of IEEE Computer Society Member of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Industrial-strength Formal specification Techniques - |
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Common Criteria Trained in Common Criteria Protection Profiles and Security Profiles at National Institute of Standards and Technology |