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Jean Mehta

Title:	Professor
Office:	Warde Academic Center
Phone:	773-298-3392
Email:	mehta@sxu.edu
Department:	Computer Science

Biography

Jean Mehta earned a B.Sc. with Honors in Mathematics from the University of Birmingham, England. Upon graduation, she left England to work in Livingstone, Zambia, Central Africa, where she remained for seven years. After emigrating to the U.S., she earned an M.S. in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by a D.A. (Doctor of Arts) in Computer Science from the same institution.

Dr. Mehta taught at North Park College (1985-87) and, since fall 1987, at Saint Xavier University where she now holds the rank of Professor. She has served as Chair of the Computer Science Division for five three-year terms, and as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for one three-year term. She has also served on the University Rank and Tenure Committee (three terms), the Academic Policies Committee, the Retention Committee, the University Website Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee and the Deans' Council.

Education

M.S. in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

D.A. in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

Areas of Specialization

Over the years, she has taught most courses in the curriculum, but prefers to teach programming. Most of her research has centered on the effective teaching of programming, which includes innovative software as well as pedagogy.

She has taught robotics and the creation of phone apps to high school students, and introduced Alice as a development environment for freshman in the computer science major.

Courses Taught

CMPSC 200: Virtual Worlds (Alice)
CMPSC 201: Visual Basic
CMPSC 202: Principles of Programming I
CMPSC 203: Principles of Programming II
CMPSC 206: Web Apps I
CMPSC 301: Operating Systems
CMPSC 306: Web Apps II
CMPSC 311: Data Structures and Algorithms
CMPSC 345: Computer Architecture
CMPSC 351: Algorithm Analysis
CMPSC 390: Software Engineering
ACSG 430: Mobile Apps
ACSG 541: Web Programming I