Erlan Wheeler

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he attended under a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.  Dr. Wheeler conducted research in the area of combinatorics. As the director of Carthage's former computer studies program, he helped launch Carthage's computer science major and department in December 1998. Now he divides his teaching between mathematics and computer science. Active in undergraduate research ever since receiving an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates grant as an undergraduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Wheeler began Sine on the Dotted Line, the Carthage Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics, as a forum for Carthage students to publish their research. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Wheeler joined the Carthage faculty in 1992. He received the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award in 1995 and became a Full Professor in 2006.

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