Assembler Language

Alec Engebretson

Dr.

Doane University

Alec Engebretson is a Professor of Computing at Doane University. At Doane since 1990, he has extensive experience teaching a number of courses and supervising a variety of projects including many related to software development. Dr. Engebretson considers himself an educator who happens to have a knack for computing. As an educator, he is constantly learning and applying effective best practices in learning.

Dr. Engebretson has served Doane in a number of capacities during his tenure at the university including co-founder of the Nebraska Dev Lab (NeDL) which provides professional software developer training, inaugural director of the Institute for Computing at Doane which provides students support and alumni connections for their computing needs, co-creator and director of the Doane Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) which provides faculty development opportunities, chair of the computer science department, chair of the science division, assistant dean of special projects, interim chair of the online program, interim chair of the art department, chair of the general education revision task force, chair of the faculty governance revision task force, sponsor of a fraternity, sponsor of the computer club, and assistant coach of the women’s basketball team.

Prior to Doane, Professor Engebretson was trained and worked five years as a systems engineer for IBM in Des Moines, IA. He received both his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. The focus of his research was end-user programming.

Mark Meysenburg

Dr.

Doane University

Dr. Mark Meysenburg has been teaching at Doane University since the fall of 1998. He has taught a wide variety of classes including programming, data structures and algorithms, the theory of computation, computer networking, and software engineering. His research interests include computer vision, evolutionary computation, and machine learning, robotics, simulation, and 3D graphics.

Prior to teaching at Doane, Dr. Meysenburg taught at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, and before that at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota. Before his teaching career started, he was in industry, as a software test engineer at SAFECO Insurance in Seattle, Washington. Before that, he was an officer in the United States Air Force, flying with the 962nd AWACS from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.

Dr. Meysenburg's undergraduate work in computer science was at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, in Terre Haute, Indiana. His graduate work was at the University of Idaho, where he studied evolutionary computation under Dr. James A. Foster.

Other than computer science, Dr. Meysenburg is interested in gaming, home brewing, ATA Taekwondo, and really, really, bad movies.