IMI Interdisciplinary Mathematics InstituteCollege of Arts and Sciences

 Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of South Carolina Office: LC 317L Phone: 803-777-6183 Email: meade@math.sc.edu Homepage: http://www.math.sc.edu/~meade/

Education

 Ph.D. Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University 1989 M.S. Applied Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University 1986 B.S. Mathematics Bowling Green State University 1984 B.S. Computer Sciences Bowling Green State University 1984

Experience

 1997 – Present Associated Faculty School of the Environment, Univ.of South Carolina 1997 – Present Associate Professor Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina 2016 – 2017 Associate Dean for Instruction, Curriculum, and Assessment College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of South CarolinaCo 2001 – 2016 Undergraduate Director Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina 1991 – 1997 Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina 1989 – 1991 Research Assistant Professor Purdue University

Research

Current Projects

• Maplets for Calculus (with P. Yasskin, Texas A&M)
• Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems (with W.E. Boyce, RPI)
• Calculus in the First Three Dimensions (with S. Stein, UC-Davis)
• Computational and Symbolic Mathematical Physics (with B. Nakone, Nigeria)

Teaching Activities

Previous Courses

• Math 141 - Calculus I
• Math 142 - Calculus II
• Math 221 - Basic Concepts of Elementary Mathematics I
• Math 241 - Vector Calculus
• Math 242 - Elementary Differential Equations
• Math 511/Stat 511 - Probability
• Math 520 - Ordinary Differential Equations
• Math 521 – Boundary Value Problems
• Math 524 - Nonlinear Optimization
• Math 526 - Numerical Linear Algebra
• Math 544 - Linear Algebra
• Math 550 - Vector Analysis
• Math 554 - Analysis I
• Math 703I - Foundations of Analysis I
• Math 720 - Applied Mathematics I
• Math 721 - Applied Mathematics II
• Math 726 - Numerical Differential Equations I

Honors and Other Special Scientific Recognition

• ICTCM Fellow, 2016
• $\Delta Z$ Outstanding Professor, 2014
• MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year, MaplePrimes community (www.mapleprimes.com), 2008
• ICTCM Award for Excellence in Innovation using Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, with Phil Yasskin (TAMU) for Maplets for Calculus, 2008
• Maple Mentor Award, MaplePrimes community (www.mapleprimes.com), November 2007
• Golden Key Faculty Award for Creative Integration of Research and Undergraduate Teaching (nominated: 1997, 1998)
• Lilly Teaching Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1994–1995

5 Selected Publications

• William E. Boyce and Douglas B. Meade, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, John Wiley & Sons, Eleventh Edition, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-119-38164-8 (612 pp.).
• William E. Boyce and Douglas B. Meade, Elementary Differential Equations, John Wiley & Sons, Eleventh Edition, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-119-32063-0, (500 pp.)
• Douglas B. Meade and Wei‐Chi Yang, Analytic, Geometric, and Numeric Analysis of the Shrinking Circle and Sphere Problems, Elect J of Math & Tech, ISSN 1933‐2823, 1(1), Feb 2007. URL: http://www.radford.edu/~scorwin/eJMT/Content/Papers/v1n1p4/
• Douglas B. Meade, Maple and Its Role in the Development of a Mathematician, in Proceedings of the 2004 Maple Summer Workshop, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (July 2004), Robert Lopez, ed. Electronic distribution by Waterloo Maple Inc. URL: http://www.maplesoft.com/. Also available online at the URL: http://www.math.sc.edu/~meade/msw2004/msw2004proc.pdf
• Douglas B. Meade, Maple 8 and Maplets: A New Way to Use Computer Algebra in the Classroom in Electronic Proceedings for Using Technology to Teach Mathematics and Science, CUNY – Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York (November 2002). Available online at the URL: http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/mathsci/2002/presentations/meade.html