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Arthur Carter

Chair, Accounting, Finance & Business Law/Professor

Acctng, Finance & Info Sys, Dept of

Address:

Kyle Hall 266E
PO Box 6951

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Biography

I am a Professor of Information Systems and currently serve as Chair of the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems.  My first job out of college was as a nuclear shift test engineer on Nimitz class aircraft carriers for the Navy.  Following that I moved to working in the production department of a newspaper where I started taking classes for my MBA concentrating my education on Information Techology.  Upon finishing my MBA, I returned to school full time to complete my Ph.D. in Business Information Technology at Virginia Tech.  Since then I have been a professor at Radford University where I have taught classes in database, networks, programming, management information systems, decision support systems, spreadsheets and cybersecurity management.

I enjoy teaching and working on keeping our Information Systems program current and relevant to the needs of students and industry.  Most of my recent work outside the classroom has been on keeping our information systems programs current which industry needs.  This has been particularly challenging with the rapid development and changes in the cybersecurity management area.  I also have spent a great deal of my efforts developing our Excel classes (one of singularly useful programs currently in use) allowing our students to earn both of the Excel certifications.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Business Information Technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA, 2003.
  • Masters of Business Administration, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2000.
  • Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 1987.

Recent Research and Engagement

Doctoral Dissertation

Dissertation Title:  Design and Application of Genetic Algorithms for the Multiple Traveling
Salesperson Assignment Problem.  

Grants:

Carter, A. E., Chase, J.D., Uppuluri, P., RU Secure: NSA GenCyber Capacity Building Bootcamp for K-12 Teachers, $89,944. (5/26/2022 - 5/26/2024). Funded

Carter, A. E., "Tech Talent Pipeline," Sponsored by Commonwealth of Virginia, State, $17,366,245.00. (October 22, 2019 - May 10, 2039). Funded

Uppuluri, P., Chase, J. D., Carter, A. E., Lee, H., "Prepare, Inspire and Train Cyber Experts (PIRC): Radford University’s New Scholarship for Service Program," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $1,638,285.00. (2020 - 2025). Not funded

Uppuluri, P., Chase, J. D., Carter, A. E., Lee, H., "Prepare, Inspire and Train Cyber Experts PIRE Radford University New Scholarship for Service," Sponsored by Radford University, Federal, $1,819,431.00. (January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2025). Not funded

Carter, A. E., Chase, J. D., Uppuluri, P., "RU Secure: NSA GenCyber Capacity Building Bootcamp for K-12 Teachers," Sponsored by National Security Agency (NSA), Federal, $86,235.00. (May 2022 - May 2023). Funded

Pittges, J. J. (Principal), Carter, A. E. (Co-Principal), Uppuluri, P. (Co-Principal), "Competition Training to Increase Pathways to Cybersecurity Workforce," Sponsored by Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, State, $48,250.00. (August 15, 2021 - August 15, 2022). Funded

Uppuluri, P. (Principal), Chase, J. D. (Co-Principal), Lee, H. (Co-Principal), Carter, A. E. (Co-Principal), "Research Experiences for Community College and K-12 teachers," Sponsored by Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), State, $100,000.00. (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022). Funded

Carter, A. E. (Co-Principal), Chase, J. (Co-Principal), Uppuluri, P. (Co-Principal), "RU Secure: NSA Gen-Cyber Capacity Building Bootcamp for K-12 Teachers," Sponsored by NSA, Federal, $49,972.00. (June 12, 2021 - August 10, 2021). Funded

Carter, A. E. (Principal), "Development of Graduate Courses for K-12 Teachers to Incorporate Cybersecurity Topics and Utilize Virginia’s Cyber Range in K-12 Classrooms," Sponsored by Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, State, $80,000.00. (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021). Funded

Chase, J. D., Carter, A. E. (Principal), Uppuluri, P., "RU Secure: Basics GenCyber Camp for K-12 Teachers," Sponsored by NSA, Federal, $94,236.00. (May 1, 2020 - January 30, 2021). Funded

Courses Taught

The classes I am currently teaching are:

  • INSY 281- Data Management and Analysis with Spreadsheets
  • INSY 381- Advanced Spreadsheet Topics
  • INSY 446- Information Assurance Management

Classes I have taught over my career include:

  • BIT 2405: Quantitative Methods  I (Va Tech)
  • BIT 2406: Quantitative Methods II (Va Tech)
  • UNIV 100: Introduction to Higher Education
  • ITEC 100: Information Technology
  • ITEC 109: Problem Solving and Programming
  • ITEC 110: Principles of Information Technology
  • ITEC 120: Principles of Computer Science I
  • ITEC 220: Principles of Computer Science II
  • ITEC 202: Internet for End Users
  • ITEC 225: Web Programming 1
  • ITEC 340: Database I
  • ITEC 350: Networks I
  • ITEC 500: Object Oriented Programming

Publications- Journals

  1. Carter, A.E. and Ragsdale, C.T. (2009).  “Quality Inspection Scheduling for Multi-Unit Service Enterprises,” ”, European Journal of Operations Research Volume 194, Issue 1 (2009)
  2. Carter, A.E. and Ragsdale, C.T. (2006).  “A new approach to solving the multiple traveling salesperson problem using genetic algorithms”, European Journal of Operations Research 175 (2006) 246-257.
  3. Brown, E.C., Ragsdale, C.T. and Carter, A.E. (2006) “A Grouping Genetic Algorithm for the Multiple Traveling Salesperson Problem,” International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Vol.6, Issue 2, June 2007.             
  4. Carter, A.E. and Ragsdale, C.T.  (2002) “Scheduling Newspaper Advertising Inserts Using Genetic Algorithms,” OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, Volume 30, Issue 30, p. 415.

Publications- Proceedings

  1. Bradberry, C., Carter, A. E. (2019). 'A Design Theoretic Process for Smarter Academic Advising in Higher Education Proceedings of the Fifty First Annual Meeting of Southeastern INFORMS, Myrtle Beach, SC.
  2. Bradberry, C., Carter, A. E. (2018). Designing a Composite Measure of Course Load Difficulty Using Machine Learning by Assessing Drop, Withdraw, and Failure Rates. Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of Southeastern INFORMS, Myrtle Beach, SC
  3. Carter, A.E., (2014), “Academic Integrity in an Online Spreadsheet Class”, Proceedings of the Forty Sixth Annual Meeting of Southeastern INFORMS, Myrtle Beach, SC.
  4. Hwajung Lee and Arthur Carter, “Early Adoption of the NSF/TCPP Curriculum on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Undergraduates,” NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar-12) in conjunction with 26th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Shanghi, China, May 21, 2012.
  5. Carter, A.E., Spillman, R. D. and Chase, J. D. (2004). “Development and Implementation of The College of Information Technology at Radford University,” Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of Southeastern INFORMS, Myrtle Beach, SC. 
  6. Brown, E., Ragsdale, C.T. and Carter, A.E. (2004). “Formulating the Multiple Traveling Salesperson Problem for a Grouping Genetic Algorithm,” Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Meeting of Institute of Industrial Engineers, Houston, TX.
  7. Carter, A.E. and Ragsdale, C.T. (2002). “Newspaper advertising insert scheduling using genetic algorithms,” Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of Southeast Region of Decision Sciences Institute, 197-199, Hilton Head, SC.
  8. Carter, A.E. (2001). “Utilizing a genetic algorithm to improve the scheduling of pre-printed newspaper inserts,” In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of Southeastern INFORMS, Myrtle Beach, SC.
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