Ronald Glotzbach

Current

Assistant Professor at Purdue University

Past

Student Volunteer Program Chair at ACM SIGGRAPH
Software Test Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
Software Engineer at The Boeing Company

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Education

Purdue University
Purdue University

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Ronald Glotzbach’s Summary

Ronald J. Glotzbach is an Assistant Professor for the Interactive Media Development area in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus. His courses revolve around web programming, development, and data integration. He served as the Purdue football e-Stadium Application Manager and Project Manager for ITaP from May 2004 to March 2006. Professor Glotzbach has been the Principal Investigator for several major dynamic, data-integrated web development projects in which he has hired many CGT students to work as web developers, usability experts, and quality assurance testers. Professor Glotzbach earned his B.S. in Computer Graphics Technology, holds a M.S. in Technology and plans to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He also serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Purdue University ACM SIGGRAPH Student Chapter. Ronald served as the SIGGRAPH 2004 and SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference Student Volunteer Chair. The total term lasted from April 2003 through October 2005. He was awarded back-to-back honors of Outstanding Professor in 2003 and again in 2004 at the CGT Spring Banquet. In 2005, he was the departmental nominee for the Dwyer Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.

Ronald is also the Principle Investigator leading the development of www.sticktoschool.com, a website to encourage high school students to stay in school and increase the national graduation rate. It offers interactive Flash games, over 500 job descriptions with educational requirements, downloadable lessons for teachers, and a mentoring section.

Ronald’s research interests include leading-edge technologies that expand the boundaries of dynamic and interactive content delivered and collaborated on via the graphical communication tool that is the web. Related interests include web-enabling software, dynamic content delivery methods, programming graphics, and integration of varying media into highly technological solutions.

Ronald Glotzbach’s Specialties:

Web programming; web development; database design, theory, and application; data integration; mobile web application development; dynamic content deployment

Research topics include: Database design, theory, and application for use with dynamic content development and deployment; Automation of processes and tasks via the Web; Graphics applications in E-Commerce and E-Business; Dynamic content deployment to mobile devices.

Ronald Glotzbach’s Experience

Assistant Professor

Purdue University

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2002 — Present (7 years)

Professor Glotzbach currently teaches: CGT 141, Internet Foundations, Technologies, and Development - an introductory course on the Internet and web development; CGT 356, Web Programming, Development, and Data Integration - an intermediate web programming course teaching the fundamentals of data integrated web technologies; and CGT 456, Advanced Web Programming, Development, and Data Integration - an advanced web programming course using object oriented programming to implement the latest web trends.
Student Volunteer Program Chair

ACM SIGGRAPH

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

April 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 7 months)

Professor Glotzbach served as the ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Conference Student Volunteer Program Chair and was selected again to serve as the SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference Student Volunteer Program Chair. The SIGGRAPH conference is the premier computer graphics and interactive techniques conference in the world. Being selected for back-to-back terms was atypical and an honor. The total term lasts from April 2003 through October 2005.
Software Test Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Ronald worked for Microsoft Corporation as a Software Test Engineer on various teams including the XML Documents Testing Team, a part of Office.NET.
Software Engineer

The Boeing Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BA; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

January 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 8 months)

Professor Glotzbach has worked for The Boeing Company in St. Louis, Missouri in both the Technical Publications department and Software Engineering. The majority of his time was spent as a software engineer working on the F-15 Distributed Mission Trainer.

Ronald Glotzbach’s Education

Purdue University

M.S. , Technology , 2001 — 2002

Thesis: General Motors and Supplier Collaborative Development Portal Using CAE and Java Technology
Purdue University

B.S. , Computer Graphics Technology , 1995 — 2000