Programming for Electrical Engineers

James Squire is the Jamison-Payne chaired Professor of Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute. Dr. Squire graduated from the US Military Academy and was awarded a Bronze Star in Desert Storm. He was awarded two patents while earning his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been awarded the state-level Outstanding Faculty Award from Virginia and every major teaching award from the Virginia Military Institute. He has over 50 publications, 8 patents, 2 startup companies, an active consulting practice, and is an honorary member of the VMI Class of 2009.

Julie Phillips Brown is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. Prior to her appointment at VMI, she served as the N.E.H. Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. Dr. Brown completed her graduate work at Cornell University, where she earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English Literature. Interdisciplinary inquiry and practice are central to Dr. Brown’s teaching and research, which focus on the intersections of poetry and poetics, the history of the book and book arts, visual art and performance, and STEAM and Digital Humanities-based pedagogies.