Robert Monroe

PHONE

412-268-5709

OFFICE

POS - Posner Hall - Room 387

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Business Technologies

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University - Ph D (Computer Science) - 1999
Carnegie Mellon University - MS (Computer Science) - 1995
University of Michigan - BS (Computer Science and Philosophy) - 1993

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Product and service innovation, product management, technology-enabled learning, international education, prototyping and makerspaces

USEFUL LINKS

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Robert T. Monroe is an Associate Teaching Professor of Information Systems and Computer Science in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, Dr. Monroe was the Associate Dean for Carnegie Mellon''s international branch campus in Doha, Qatar. Before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Monroe worked in the software industry at a variety of companies including FreeMarkets, IBM, Carnegie Group, and OptiMetrics where he led the conception, design, development, and launch of a wide variety of successful software products and software-based services. Dr. Monroe holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Philosophy and Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

PUBLICATIONS

• A Satisficing Choice Model

(author(s): Peter Stuettgen, Peter Boatwright, Robert Monroe) INFORMS / Marketing Science 31(6), 2012; 878-899

• Acme:Architectural Description of Component-Based Systems; David Garlan, Robert Monroe and David Wile
  Foundations of Component-Based Systems, Gary T. Leavens and Murali Sitaraman (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Foundations of Component-Based System, Gray T. Leavens and Murali Sitaraman (eds), Cambridge University press, 2000,pp.47-68, 2000

• Rapid Development of Custom Software Architecture Design Environments

Doctoral Dissertation,CMU School of Computer Science, Technical Report CMU-CS-99-161, August 1999, 1999

• Acme: An Architecture Description Interchange Language

Proceeding of CASCON ''97, 1997

• Architectural Styles, Design Patterns, And Objects

(author(s): Robert Monroe, Andrew Kompanek, Ralph Melton, David Garlan) IEEE Software 14(1), 1997; 43-&

• Capturing Design Expertise in Customized Software Architecture Design Environments

Proceedings of the Second International Software Architecture Workshop, October 1996, 1996

• Style -Based Reuse for Software Architectures

Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Reuse, April 1996, 1996

• Implementing Distributed Server Groups for the Worls Wide Web

(author(s): Robert Monroe, Michael Garland, Sebastian Grassia, Siddhartha Puri) CMU School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-95-114, 1995

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar - Charles E. Thorpe Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding University Citizenship (2012)
• CASCON Conference - First Decade High Impact Paper Award (2010)
• Kodak - Kodak Graduate Fellow (1999)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (1997)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Business Education Undergraduate Affairs Committee (BEAC), Committee Member, Member of the BEAC committee overseeing undergraduate business education program. (2015 - )
• Online Hybrid Faculty Advisory Committee, Committee Member, Ex-officio member of OH MBA faculty advisory committee (in role of Director of program) (2012 - )
• Excel workshops for undergraduates, Workshop Organizer, Put together a series of three workshops on Microsoft Excel for BA Undergraduates. (2016 - 2016)

COURSES TAUGHT

• Big Data (45980) 2016 Mini 1 Section: A, E
  2016 Mini 2 Section: M
  2015 Mini 1 Section: M
  2015 Mini 2 Section: A
  2015 Mini 3 Section: A
  2014 Section: E
  2014 Mini 5 Section: E
  2014 Mini 4 Section: A
  2013 Mini 4 Section: E

• Business Computing (70110) 2016 Section: A, B

• BUS TECH FOR CONSLTG (70453) 2014 Section: A, A

• MANGEMNT INFRMT SYST (70451) 2014 Section: A
  2013 Section: A
  2012 Section: A

• Information Systems Modeling I (14777) 2013 Mini 4 Section: A

• Information Systems Modeling I (MSIN) (46705) 2013 Mini 4 Section: T

• SYSTEMS ANAL & DESGN (70453) 2012 Section: A

• Innovative Product Development (70446) 2012 Section: Q
  2011 Section: Q

• Management Information Systems (70451) 2011 Section: Q
  2010 Section: Q
  2009 Section: Q

• Information Resource Management (70455) 2008 Section: A
  2006 Section: A
  2005 Section: A

• Systems Architecture for Managers (45991) 2008 Mini 3 Section: A
  2006 Mini 2 Section: A
  2005 Mini 2 Section: A

• Business Intelligence Tools and Techniques (45875) 2008 Mini 4 Section: A
  2007 Mini 3 Section: E
  2006 Mini 4 Section: E

• High-Technology Innovation (45827) 2008 Mini 4 Section: A

• System Analysis and Design (70453) 2007 Section: Q

• Web Technologies for Businesses (70459) 2007 Section: Q, A

• High-Technology Product Innovation (45827) 2006 Section: A

• Emerging Information Technologies (45876) 2006 Mini 1 Section: A
  2005 Mini 1 Section: A
  2005 Mini 2 Section: M

• Web Business Engineering (70459) 2006 Section: A