Recent Courses:
- COMP-190: SQLite: Survey, name a course you are taking, results, shared workspace
- COMP-290/375: Database Systems
- COMP-365: Computer Networks
- COMP-311: Algorithms
- COMP-224: Geographic Information Systems
- COMP-115: Discrete Structure
Past Courses:
- COMP-220: Data Structures
- COMP-171: Foundations of CS
- COMP-210: Organization
- COMP-110: Quantitative Reasoning & Data Analysis
- COMP-105: Web Programming
- Stochastic Systems (different institution)
Recent publications:
- CCSCNE 2023: Spreadsheets as Hands-On Learning Tools in Discrete Structures
- ITICSE 2019: Connecting Majors' and Non-Majors' Courses with Tabular Data
- ITICSE 2018: Exploring the MST Quality Nuances Of Prim's And Kruskal's Algorithms
- SIGCSE 2018: Holistic Approaches in Computer Science Education
- SIGCSE 2018: GIS Opportunities in CS Education
Grants:
- June 2012 – December 2013: National Endowment for the Humanities, HD-51431, $50,000. Untangling the Web of Historical Thinking: What the Structures of Student-Produced Wikis Reveal [Michael Smith, Ali Erkan]
- September 2011 – May 2012: Fulbright Fellowship. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, U.S. Department of State. Using Geographic Information Systems For Cross-Cultural Scholarship [Ali Erkan]
- June 2010 - June 2012: Educating the Educator, Ithaca College. $29,250. Integrative Learning Through GIS [Ali Erkan, John Barr]
- June 2009 – June 2012: , National Science Foundation DUE-0837721, $149,104. Multidisciplinary Sustainability Modules: Integrating STEM Courses [Tom Pfaff, Ali Erkan, Jason Hamilton, Michael Rogers]
Awards:
- 2018: ITiCSE Conference Best Paper Award for "Exploring the MST Quality Nuances Of Prim's And Kruskal's Algorithms"
- 2014: Ithaca College Faculty Excellence
Students Used to Jot Down Quotes:
Saving the Helpless Invertebrates of Topsoil:
- This is a society dedicated to saving at least a few of the earthworms we see stranded on the sidewalks, roads, etc, after it rains. Earthworms are very useful animals. Membership is automatically granted for anyone who saves an earthworm; please communicate your good deed to Ali with an email (our reporting is based on an honor-code). All memberships expire at the end of the current semester to encourage members saving multiple worms.
- Members: Metin Erkan (AKA Babam AKA Dede), Griffin Nichols, Michael Smith, Isaiah Smith (the one on the left), Sima Etaner-Uyar, Rebecca Shapley.
Every Year I Intend to Find New Ones; Every Year I Fail:
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”-- Mahatma Gandhi
- "Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- "In a way, it seems like the cruelest joke in existence has been played on us. We became self-aware only to realize this story is not about us." -- Kurzgesagt