Susan Serrano, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
"I have found that teaching is more than just presenting lectures to students. It is also building rapport with students and demonstrating a belief in their ability to succeed. I believe in teaching students to develop their computational and analytic skills. The students need to be actively engaged in the learning process. Learning is not a participatory sport. The student and the teacher must both be engaged in an active learning environment."
Dr. Serrano was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the oldest of 5 children. Her family is from Tampa, Florida. Her father's parents came to this country as young children from Cuba and Spain. Her mother's parents came to this country as young children from Italy. Dr. Serrano is married with 2 great children!
Courses Taught
College Algebra; Calculus I and II; Elementary Statistics; Biostatistics; Applied Statistical Analysis; Modern Algebra II; Coding Theory; Probability and Statistics; Calculus series; Discrete Mathematics; Advanced Discrete Mathematics; Graph Theory
Education
Ph. D., Mathematics, Auburn University
M. S., B. S., Mathematics, Middle Tennessee University
Honors and Awards
Office of Naval Research Award - 1996
Outstanding Student in Quality Control - 1989
Quality Engineering Exam Top Achiever - 1989
Select publications
"Small Multi-graph Designs," 27th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Computing, Louisiana State University, Baton Rough, LA, 1996
"Small Multi-graph Designs," 26th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Computing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 1995
"Decompositions of Multipartite Graphs" M.A.A. Suncoast XXXVI Meeting, December 7, 2001