Biography

Dr. Susan Mengel received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1990. She is an Associate professor at Texas Tech University where she is involved in NSF research projects for establishing a green computing cluster, computing cluster security, and in academic/industry collaborations. She has played strategic leadership roles in numerous  transdisciplinary projects involving the delivery of innovative software and data models in sleep management, student retention and advising, computer education, nutrition, speech therapy, cardiovascular disease, and cybersecurity. She helped to establish the Master's in Software Engineering degree program at Texas Tech University, served as Associate Editor for Computing for the IEEE Transactions on Education, served on the Steering Committee of the ACM/IEEE Computing Curriculum, and served as the Outreach Chair FY19 of the SWE Outreach Committee. She currently serves as Associate Chair on the Texas Tech Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects, is the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech, and is a faculty advisor for the TTU Collegiate Chapters of SWE and Women in High Performance Computing.