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Joan Catherine Horvath
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Pasadena, California
 

Joan Horvath is an engineer, educator and management consultant. She is a National University Community Research Institute fellow exploring her primary interests in the innovative and appropriate application of technology to teach and explain science and math effectively to nonscientists.

She is a core adjunct faculty member of National University’s College of Letters and Sciences and a faculty member at the University of Phoenix. Previously, she also was an adjunct faculty member at the Art Center College of Design and a senior lecturer for the Otis College of Art and Design.

Prior to being a consultant and educator, she spent 16 years at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked in various areas, ranging from the technology transfer office to the Magellan spacecraft to Venus and TOPEX/Poseidon Earth science flight projects.

Joan holds an undergraduate degree from MIT in aeronautics and astronautics, and an engineering master’s degree from UCLA. She coauthored an art book on Saturn, authored a book about what scientists actually do, and is the author or coauthor of various technical papers. She is President of the MIT Class of 1981, VP of Communications of the MIT Club of Southern California, a member of the Executive Committee of Caltech’s entrepreneur forum, and a docent at the Huntington Botanical Gardens.

Updated July 9, 2013


     

 Introduction to computational models with Python
Garrido J., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2016. 496 pp.  Type: Book

This book has some great information, but seems a little inconsistent when it comes to the intended audience. The author says that it “presents an introduction to computational models and their implementation using the Python...

 

Learning differences and eye fixation patterns in virtual and physical science laboratories
Chien K., Tsai C., Chen H., Chang W., Chen S. Computers & Education 82(C): 191-201, 2015.  Type: Article

A few things stood out to this US-based reviewer about this paper, which reports on a study in Taiwan comparing whether students who took part in a science lab that was purely simulated learned the material better or worse than student...

 

Infinitesimal: how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world
Alexander A., Scientific American, Inc., New York, NY, 2014. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-374176-81-5)

This book has a rather grandiose title and an interesting premise: take one important concept from the history of mathematics (the ability to split up a line into infinitesimally small parts), and trace its path through the very turbul...

 

A primer on scientific programming with Python (4th ed.)
Langtangen H., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Berlin, Germany, 2014. 872 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-642549-58-8)

This fourth edition is a wonderful, inclusive textbook that covers pretty much everything one needs to know to go from zero to fairly sophisticated scientific programming in Python. It uses Python 2.7. The author notes that a lot of us...

 

Information technology and organizational capabilities: a longitudinal study of the apparel industry
Luo J., Fan M., Zhang H. Decision Support Systems 53(1): 186-194, 2012.  Type: Article

This paper has the ambitious goal of evaluating how apparel retailers obtain value from information technology (IT). The authors look at apparel retailing as a challenging interface with online customers in particular, since the custom...

 
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