Information Arts & Technologies

Faculty

Kathleen Harmeyer (Senior Lecturer; DCD, University of Baltimore)
Director of the BTPS in Simulation & Digital Entertainment, Professor Harmeyer is an award winning educator and published learning game developer. She is a nationally recognized curriculum developer in computer game design programs. Her assignment includes Web development and game programming courses in the Information Arts & Technologies division. She also particpates in the faculty exchange with the SDE program at The Community College of Baltimore County.

Office: AC 113 B   Phone: 410.837.5473   e-mail: kharmeyer@ubalt.edu   home page

Nancy Kaplan (Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University)
Director of the School of Information Arts and Technologies. An award-winning developer of educational software and internationally recognized expert on digital literacy, Professor Kaplan teaches courses in information architecture, hypermedia development, and usability methods. She is the Principal Investigator for a three-year, NSF funded project investigating the roles young teens should play in the development of technologies for their age cohort.

Office: AC 113 C   Phone: 410.837.5319   e-mail: nkaplan@ubalt.edu   home page

Mohammed Ketel (Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Polytechnic University)
Professor Ketel currently teaches in the areas of networking, operating system administration and support, and computer security. His research interests include distributed wireless networks, internet technologies, and soft computing.

Office: AC 114 C   Phone: 410.837.5278   e-mail: mketel@ubalt.edu  

Stuart Moulthrop (Professor; Ph.D., Yale University)
An internationally known, award-winning digital artist and media theorist, Professor Moulthrop currently works on the design and application of interactive software, including video games and simulations. He teaches courses in multimedia design, media theory, and digital technologies.

Office: AC 113 D   Phone: 410.837.5301   e-mail: smoulthrop@ubalt.edu   home page

Charles L Sykes (Lecturer; Ph.D., DePaul University)
The locus of Professor Sykes research and life's work is Community Informatics: investigating, contributing to, and implementing policies, practices and programs effecting the social appropriation of Information and Communication Technology and affecting its effective use. He currently teaches courses in the Applied Information Technology (AIT) program.

Office: AC 114 B   Phone: 410.837.5223   e-mail: csykes@ubalt.edu   home page

Kathryn Summers (Associate Professor; Ph.D., Texas Christian University)
Widely published in both traditional and new-media rhetoric, Professor Summers teaches user research, information design, technical communication, and rhetorical approaches to information systems. Her current projects include a major new textbook on Web usability.

Office: AC 114 D   Phone: 410.837.6202   e-mail: ksummers@ubalt.edu   home page

Luay Wahsheh (Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Idaho)
Over the past few years, Dr. Wahsheh has been conducting research in the area of computer security, with an emphasis on the design and implementation of security policies in high assurance computer systems. His additional research interests in information assurance include computer forensics, wireless network security, software security, and database security. He teaches courses in computer security and networks.

Office: AC 114 E   Phone: 410.837.5004   e-mail: lwahsheh@ubalt.edu   home page