Faculty Bio

Gerald Kruse

Associate Professor of Information Technology

Office Location: BAC C-205A
Phone Number: 814-641-3595

Personal Website: http://faculty.juniata.edu/kruse/

Dr. Kruse came to Juniata as Assistant Professor of Math & Computer Science in 1999. He received both his Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, and received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. He is a member of numerous honor societies including Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Golden Key, and Phi Eta Sigma. In addition he was the recipient of a NASA Space Grant Fellowship in 1996.

Dr. Kruse's teaching experience includes four years as a teaching assistant at Brown University. The courses he was involved with included Numerical Methods, Scientific Computing and Numerical Partial Differential Equations. As part of his NASA fellowship, he presented workshops on the mathematics and computations related to space exploration to Rhode Island Public School students in grades K-12. The teaching experience coincided nicely with his graduate work in computational fluid dynamics, where he developed computer simulations of fluid flow.

Prior to his appointment at Juniata, Dr. Kruse served as software engineer for Compaq Computer Corporation. He was in the Mathematics Library Group, where he developed high-performance numerical routines. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked for the DuPont Company in such positions as Database Administrator, Information Center Analyst, and Data Center Supervisor.

Dr. Kruse is an avid sports fan who can be coerced to participate or attend almost any athletic event. His weekly issue of Sports Illustrated usually arrives on Thursday, which he devotedly reads cover to cover. He and his wife Lisa have three children: Olivia, Peter, and Isabel.