Norman E. Pence
Professor
Computer Information Systems
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, HONORS AND AWARDS
Education
Ph.D., Mineral Economics (Management Science/Operations Research/Statistics) Colorado
School of Mines, May 1986
M.S., Mathematics, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, August 1969
B.A., Mathematics, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, May 1965
Employment History
2000 to present, Professor, Computer Information Systems, Metropolitan State College of
Denver
1992 to 2000, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, Metropolitan State College
of Denver
1979 to 1992, Assistant Professor (tenure), Computer Information Systems, Metropolitan State
College of Denver
1977 to 1979, Instructor, Computer Information Systems, Metropolitan State College of Denver
1985, Consultant, Air Force Accounting and Finance Center, Denver, Colorado
1979 to 1983, Computer Scientist, United States Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
1977 to 1978, Consultant, Coors Porcelain Company, Golden, Colorado
1970 to 1977, Senior Systems Analyst, Operations Research Analyst, Supervisor of
Computer Operations, The Great Western Sugar Company, Denver, Colorado
1968 to 1969, Systems Analyst, Computer Programmer, A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company,
Decatur, Illinois
1967, Computer Programmer Trainee, McDonnell-Douglas Automation Company, St. Louis,
Missouri
1965 to 1967, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
1963 to 1965, Instructional Aide, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Honors and Awards
Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society Membership – April 1995
AACSB Certification - August 1991
Woolsey Diamond Stickpin Award - 1986
Graduate Teaching Assistantship – 1965-1967
SIU Student Activity Award – 1961-1965
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS AND FIELD FOR PAST TWELVE YEARS
2009-10 / Fall / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Spring / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer
(Planned) / Statistics / CIS2300 -- Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
1
2008-09 / Fall / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Spring / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer / Statistics / CIS2300 -- Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
1
2007-08 / Fall / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Spring / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer / Statistics / CIS 2300 – Business Statistics / 1
2006-07 / Fall / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2
Spring / Statistics / CIS 2300 –Business Statistics
CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2
Summer / Statistics / CIS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
2005-06 / Fall / Statistics / CMS 2300 –Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2
Spring / Statistics / CMS 2300 –Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2
Summer / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics / 2
2004-05 / Fall / Statistics / CMS 2300 –Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Spring / Statistics / CMS 2300 –Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics / 2
2003-04 / Fall / Statistics / CMS 2300 –Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Spring / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics / 2
2002-03 / Fall / Statistics / CMS 2300 –Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Spring / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer / Statistics / CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 3
2001-02 / Fall / Statistics / CMS 2300 –Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Spring / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer / Statistics / CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2000-01 / Fall / Statistics / CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 4
Spring / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 1
3
Summer / Statistics / CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
1999-00 / Fall / Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2
Spring / Statistics / CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 4
1998-99 / Fall / Statistics
Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2
Spring / Statistics
Statistics / CMS 2300 – Business Statistics
CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
2
Summer / Statistics / CMS 3340 – Advanced Business Statistics / 2
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Graduate work, certifications, and workshops
Thirty Seventh Annual Meeting of WDSI, March 18-22, 2008, San Diego, California.
Business Statistics Symposium, March 6-9, 2008, Green Valley Ranch, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Business Statistics Symposium, October 12-15, 2006, Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The 2005 Annual Symposium on Current Business Issues, November 10-11, 2005—Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver, Colorado.
The 2005 International Business and Economics Research Conference, October 3-7, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada
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CIS Fall 2004 Conference on Cyber Security for Today’s Business and Technology Professionals, Tuesday, October 26, 2004, Tivoli Student Union, Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver, Colorado
The 2004 International Business and Economics Research Conference, October 4-8, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2003 International Business and Economics Research Conference, October 6-10, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2002 International Applied Business Research Conference, March 14-19, 2002, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
The 42nd Annual Mountain Plains Management Conference, October 11-13, 2000, Southern Utah
University, Cedar City, Utah
The 2000 International Applied Business Research Conference, March 13-17, 2000, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
The 30th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 20-23, 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Twenty-Eight Annual Meeting, Western Decision Sciences Institute, April 6-10, 1999, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
1998 International Conference, Institute of Business Administration and Technology, Toronto,
Canada, July 8-12, 1998
TOOLBOOK classes – summer 1993
Object Oriented Programming Seminar – spring 1993
AACSB Information Systems Mini-Sabbatical, University of Baltimore, July 21, 1991 – August
11, 1991
CACI Simulation Conference, San Diego, California, September, 1989
ORSA/TIMS National Conference, Denver, Colorado, October, 1988
ORSA/TIMS National Conference, New Orleans, May, 1987
ORSA/TIMS National Conference, Miami, Florida, October, 1986
Intellectual Contributions
Refereed Publications
Journal Articles
Mawhinney, C. H., Fustos, J. T., Haga, W., Marold, K., Moreno, A. A., Morrell, J. S., Morris, G. J., & Pence, N. (2010). Employee characteristics for IT workers in a transition job market, International Journal of Intercultural Information Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, pages 68-78.
Morrell, J.S. and Pence, N.E. (2005), Sufficient Conditions For An Optimal Solution To The Problem Of Scheduling A Bottleneck Of An n-Stage Process, Journal of Business and Economics Research, Volume 3, Number 1, January 2005, pages 61-64, ISSN 1542-4448.
Pook, L.A. & Pence, N.E. (2005) Relationship of Information Infrastructures and Social Development among the Visegrad-Four Countries of Central Europe at the Time of EU Accession, Advanced Topics in Global Information Management, Volume 4, Chapter XVI, pages 290-316.
Morris, G.J., Mawhinney, C.H, Fustos, J., Morrell, J.S., Pence, N E., Haga, W., Marold, K., & Moreno, A.A. (2004). Factors That Impact Student Performance in a Course Sequence, Communications of the International Information Management Association, Volume 4, Issue 1, August, pages 63-79.
Pook, L.A. & Pence, N.E. (2004). Evaluation of Information Infrastructures and Social Development among the Visegrad-Four Countries of Central Europe. Journal of Global Information Management, Volume 12, Number 2, April-June
Pence, N.E., Scott, J.D., & Scott, C.R., (2004). A Comparative Study of Online Retailing: U.S. vs. E.U. Consumer Attitudes Toward Product Country Of Origin, Journal of Business & Economics Research, Volume 2, Number 3, March.
Pence, N. E., Morrell, J. S., Fustos, J., Haga, W., Marold, K., Mawhinney, C. H., Moreno, A. A., & Morris, G. J. (2004). An Exploration of the Impact of Online Delivery in Prerequisite Courses on CIS Majors’ Course Sequence. Journal of College Teaching and Learning, Volume 1, Number 1, January, 2004, pages 79-84.
Scott, C.R., Scott, J.D., & Pence, N.E. (2002). Transhemispheric Disparities in the General Knowledge of Business Majors: By Major Population Segments. The International Business & Economics Research Journal, Volume1, Number 8, August, pages 1-10.
Pook, L.A. & Pence, N.E. (2000). The Impact of Communications and Technology on Cultures around the Globe. Journal of the University of Tirgu-Mures with ISBN.
Scott, J.D., Gilliard, D.J., Pence, N.E., Scott, C.R., & Court, P.W. (1998). “Been There, Done That, Got the Class Ring! (But What Do Business Students Really Know?): A Comparative Study of US and South African Students”, Global Business and Finance Review.
Pence, N.E., Morrell J.S., & Megeath J.D., (1992). Sufficient Conditions for Optimizing the Clean-up Function of a Vector of Products. Proceedings of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Twenty-third Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, May 3-5.
Pence, N.E., Morrell J.S., & Megeath, J.D., (1992). Scheduling the Bottleneck of a N-stage Process. Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Twenty-first Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, March 24-27.
Monroe, S.R., & Pence, N.E. (1991). Teaching Quantitative Topics -- Science or Religion? Proceedings of the Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Priorities and Strategies, A System Conference Sponsored by the Trustees of the State Colleges in Colorado and the Faculty Advisory Council to the Trustees, Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado, October 4-5.
Pence, N.E., Megeath, J.D., & Morrell, J.S. (1990). Coping with Temporary Bottlenecks in a Several-Stage Process with Multiple Products, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3, Third Quarter, pp. 5-7.
Pence, N.E. (1986). An Economic Model of the Multi-product Lot Scheduling Problem Applied
to Refined Ceramic Mineral Products," Ph.D. dissertation, Colorado School of Mines, Golden,
Colorado, March.
Westfall, D.G., Barnes, M.G., & Pence, N.E. (1977). Interpretation and Practical Field Utilization of the Relationship Between Brei Nitrate and Sugar Content of Sugarbeets," Journal of the American Society of Sugarbeet Technologists, Vol.19, No. 4, October, pp. 307-315.
Barnes M.G., Akeson, W.R., & Pence, N.E. (1974). Predicting Sugarbeet Storage Losses Using Regression Analysis," Journal of the American Society of Sugarbeet Technologists, Vol.18, No. 2, October, pp. 182-185.
Conference Proceedings
Morrell, J. S. and Pence, N. E. Algorithm and Theorem for Optimizing the Clean-Up Function of a Vector of Products, Proceedings of the “International Conference on Economics, Law, and Management – 3rd edition”, June 4-7, 2008 Tirgu-Mures, Romania Note: I am not able to confirm this paper was actually published in this conference proceedings.
Khandekar, R. and Pence, N.E. Impact of Strategic Planning on Company Performance in a Strategic Management Simulation Game Environment, Proceedings of the Thirty Seventh Annual Meeting of WDSI, March 18-22, 2008 San Diego, California
Pence, N. E. and Morrell, J. S. Scheduling Algorithm and Theorem for the Bottleneck of a n-Stage Process, Proceedings of The 2007 International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 1-4, 2007 Las Vegas, Nevada, ISSN 1539-8757.
Mawhinney, C.H., Fustos, J.T., Haga, W., Marold, K., Moreno, A.A., Morrell, J S., Morris, G J., & Pence, N.E. (2006). Information Systems and Technology Employee Characteristics in a Transition Job Market. Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, April 11-14, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Geisler, J.L. and Pence, N.E. (2005). Linking Values, Attitudes, and Behavior in Research Studies, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Fall Conference of the Mountain Plains Management Association, October 13-25, 2005 Cedar City, Utah.
Mawhinney, C.H., Pence, N E., Fustos, J., Haga, W., Marold, K., Moreno, A.A., Morrell, J.S., Morris, G.J., (2005). Factors That Impact Student Performance in an Advanced Business Statistics Course, Proceedings of The 2005 International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 3-7, 2005 Las Vegas, Nevada, ISSN 1539-8757.
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Morrell, J.S. and Pence, N.E. (2004). Sufficient Conditions For An Optimal Solution To The Problem Of Scheduling A Bottleneck Of An n-Stage Process, Proceedings of The 2004 International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 4-8, Las Vegas, Nevada (Best Paper Award)
Pence, N.E. and Morrell, J.S. (2004). The NP Technique For Eliminating Degeneracy In The Transportation Problem, Proceedings of The 2004 International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 4-8, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Morris, G.J., Mawhinney, C.H, Fustos, J., Morrell, J.S., Pence, N E., Haga, W., Marold, K., & Moreno, A.A. (2004). Factors That Impact Student Performance in a Course Sequence Proceedings of the 2004 International Information Management Association Conference, October 7-9, Chicago, Illinois.
Pence, N.E., Scott, J.D., & Scott, C.R., (2003). A Comparative Study Of Online Retailing: U.S. Vs. E.U. Consumer Attitudes Toward Product Country Of Origin, Proceedings of the International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 6-10, Las Vegas, Nevada (Best Paper Award)
Pence, N E., Morrell, J.S., Fustos, J., Haga, W., Marold, K., Mawhinney, C.H., Moreno, A.A., & Morris, G.J. (2003). An Exploration of the Impact of Online Delivery in Prerequisite Courses on CIS Majors’ Course Sequence. Proceedings of the International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 6-10, Las Vegas, Nevada, Article #533.
Morrell, J S., Fustos, J., Haga, W., Marold, K., Mawhinney, C.H., Moreno, A.A., Morris, G.J., & Pence, N.E. (2003). The Impact of Online Delivery in Prerequisite Courses on a Student’s Success in Subsequent Courses (extended abstract). Proceedings of the European Applied Business Research Conference, June 9-13, Venice, Italy, Article #592, (Best Paper Award)
Pence, N.E., Scott, C.R., Scott, J.D. (2002). Transhemispheric Disparities in the General Knowledge of Business Majors: By Major Population Segments. 2002 International Applied Business Research Conference. (Best Paper Award)
Scott, C.R., Scott, J.D., Pence, N.E., & Garman, G.B. (2001). An Empirical Investigation into the Driving Forces and Inhibitors Affecting the Export Behavior of Colorado Firms. 2001 International Applied Business Research Conference.