Cynthia C. Fry

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies, School of Engineering & Computer Science (ECS)
Faculty-In-Residence, Heritage House (ECS Living-Learning Center)

School of Engineering & Computer Science

Baylor University

Office:	Rogers Engineering & Computer Science 220.09 Mailing Address: One Bear Place #97356 Waco, Texas 76798-7356
Phone: Fax:	(254) 710-4874 (254) 710-3839
Office Hours:	Spring 2011: MTWRF 11am-12pm, MWF 1-2pm or by appointment
Email:	Cindy_Fry at Baylor dot edu

"Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself."

- Sir James Jeans, 1931

Biography:

CYNTHIA C. FRY is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Engineering & Computer Science (ECS) at Baylor University. She has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, and a M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Project engineer on the Hubble Space Telescope and the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (now the Chandra orbital facility); a Senior Project Engineer for the Space Station Projects Office; a Crew Training Manager for STARLAB, a DOD-dedicated mission; and the Science Operations Director for shuttle flight STS-46, the first electrodynamic flight of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1). She was awarded a Presidential Direct Commission in the U.S. Navy as an Engineering Duty Officer, and worked with the Naval Maritime Intelligence Center as a Scientific/Technical Intelligence Analyst. She was the owner and chief systems engineer for Systems Engineering Services (SES), a computer systems design, development, and consultation firm. She joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University in 1997, where she teaches a variety of engineering and computer science classes, in addition to being the Faculty Advisor for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Director of the Computer Science Fellows program, the Co-Program Director for the Technology Entrepreneurship Initiative, and a KEEN Fellow. She has authored or co-authored twenty-five peer-reviewed technical papers and presentations. She is the Faculty-in-Residence for the ECS Living-Learning Center, where she lives with her husband Joe, dog Ladybelle, and 270 engineering and computer science students.

Spring 2011 Class Schedule:

		CFry Class Schedule - Spring 2011
Monday		Tuesday		Wednesday		Thursday		Friday
8:00		8:00		8:00		8:00		8:00
8:50		to		8:50		to		8:50
		9:15				9:15
9:05				9:05				9:05
9:55		9:30	ECS	9:55		9:30	ECS	9:55
		to	Meeting			to	Meeting
10:10	CSI 2334	10:45		10:10	CSI 2334	10:45		10:10	CSI 2334
11:00				11:00				11:00
	Ofc Hrs	11:00	Ofc Hrs		Ofc Hrs	11:00	Ofc Hrs		Ofc Hrs
11:15	11am-12pm	to	11am-12pm	11:15	11am-12pm	to	11am-12pm	11:15	11am-12pm
12:05		12:15		12:05		12:15		12:05
12:20		12:30		12:20		12:30		12:20
1:10	Ofc Hrs	to		1:10	Ofc Hrs	to		1:10	Ofc Hrs
	1-2pm	1:45			1-2pm	1:45			1-2pm
1:25				1:25				1:25
2:15		2:00	ENT 4340	2:15		2:00	ENT 4340	2:15
		to				to
2:30	CSI 2350	3:15		2:30	CSI 2350	3:15		2:30	CSI 2350
3:20				3:20				3:20
		3:30				3:30
3:35		to		3:35		to		3:35
4:25		4:45		4:25		4:45		4:25

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Baylor’s Honor Code

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Related Links:

· Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Express Edition 2008

· SmartDraw

· x86 Instruction Set

· Emacs Tutorial (Rutgers)

· VI Tutorial (Purdue)

· GDB Tutorial (Carnegie-Mellon)

· Valgrind

· Web Basics with LWP

Organizations and Affiliations:

• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Baylor Student Section of SWE
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE)

Curriculum Vitae (pdf

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Other Links:

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Family Pictures

My husband, Joe, and I live in Waco, Texas. We have two children, Tom, who is a junior at Baylor, majoring in Social Work, and Katie, who is a sophomore at Baylor, majoring in Studio Art. We also have a one-eyed dog, Lady Belle, and a calico cat, Willow.

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