Graduate Students

Last updated February 22, 2006

Current Graduate Students

Rae Nims
Brian Peavy

Former Thesis Option Graduate Students

Kevin Steffenson, MSCS
"Crew Vehicle Interface Requirements: Development and Maintenance for Military Aircraft," May 2004

Bill Hallinan, MSCS
"Improving Software Engineering Practice through Competency Based Personnel Reviews," May 2001

Patricia Loo, MSCS
"A Comparison Study of Rapid Application Development," December 2000.

Stephen Kram, MSCS
"A Case Study: Implementing Software Metrics at the U. S. Air Force's Standard Systems Center," May 1996.

Toni Hempstead, MSCS
"Software Maintainability Index for SQL," May 1996.

Jon Jensen, MSCS
"Quantitative Measurement of Software Reusability," January 1996.

Luis Guillen, MSCS
"A Study of the Effectiveness of Three Traditional Software Testing Techniques in Relational Database Management Systems," May 1995.

Kurt D. Welker, MSCS
"Application of Object-Based Software Metrics for Re-engineering Code Implemented in Ada," May 1994.

Michael W. Cohn, MSCS
"Emperical Evaluation of a Proposed Set of Object-Oriented Metrics for Determining Class Complexity," May 1994.

Kimberlyn Mousseau, MSCS
"Three Software Testing Techniques and Their Effectiveness for ORACLE -- A Fourth Generation Language," May 1994.

Kevin E. Twitchell, MSCS
"Independent Verification and Validation of Large Software Requirement Specification Databases," May 1992.

Scott Matthews, MSCS
"A Comparison of Complexity Metrics for FORTRAN 77 and Modula-2 Programs," 1989.

John Adams, MSCS
"A Study of Business Data Processing from 1950 through 1987 Encompassing Both Mainframe and PC Environments with a Special Section Evaluating Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tools Using the Questionnaire Method," 1988.

Served Served on MS Thesis Graduate Committees for:

James Galbraith
"A Portable Open Source Framework for a Real-time Data Acquisition System," May 2004

Edward Flowers
"Diversity in Coevolving Populations," May 2004

Karen Kent
"Best Practices for Testing Network Intrusion Detection Signatures," September 2002

Gerald Gregory Atkinson
"An Analysis of Process and Product Metrics for Monitoring Software Project Status," May 1997

Thomas Troy Pearse
"A Study of Software Portability to Identify Tangible Characteristics of Portable Programs," May 1996

Junjian Zheng
"A Study on Monotonicity and the Use of Halstead's Metrics," December 1995

Zhijian Chen
"Static Techniques for Measuring Software Reusability," May 1995

Jianqiang Zhuo
"Constructing and Testing C-MAT:  A C Source Code Maintainability Assessment Tool," June 1994

Leonard A. Hermens
"A Software Specification Tool for Increased Requirements Traceability," August 1991.

Donald J. Moreaux
"A Formalism for the Detections and Prevention of Illicit Program Derivations," April 1991.

Tung Huei Ku
"Software Science:  Measurement and Evaluation of LISP and Pascal Programs," July 1983.

Robin L. Mankin
"PLAYIT:  A High Performance PLA Generator," April 1983.