Giordano

- born 9 May 1942

- 3 June 1964: graduated USMA and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers

- 1964-1966: Platoon Leader, 101st Airborne Division,

Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Vietnam

- 1966-1967: Company Commander, 307th Engineer Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina

- 1969-1970: Operations Officer, 39th Engineer Battalion, Vietnam

- 1971-1974: Olmsted Scholar, Universities of Madrid, Spain and Arkansas

- 1975-1976: Instructor, Department of Mathematics, USMA

- 1976-1985: Permanent Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, USMA

- Jul 1985-Jul 1988: Deputy Head of the Mathematics Department, USMA

- Jul 1988-present: Head of Mathematics Department, USMA

Publications:

Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, A First Course in

Differential Equations for Engineers and

Scientists, A Modeling Approach, Addison

Wesley Publishing Company, 1989.

Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, A First Course in

Mathematical Modeling, Brooks and Cole Pub-

lishing Company, 1984.

Giordano, Frank, "A Heuristic for Constructing Surrogate

Constraints for the Linear Zero-One Integer Pro-

gramming Problem," Naval Postgraduate School Tech-

nical Report NPS 55-82-009, February 1982.

Giordano, Frank; Leja, Stanley, "Competitive Hunter

Models," UMAP Module No. 628, January 1983.

Giordano, Frank; Pollin, Jack, "Developing an Under-

graduate Mathematical Modeling Course," Inter-

national Journal of Mathematical Education in

Science and Technology, December 1982.

Giordano, Frank; Wells, Michael; Wilde, Carroll,

"Dimensional Analysis," Tools for Teaching, 1988.

Giordano, Frank; Wells, Michael; Wilde, Carroll,

"Dimensional Analysis," UMAP Journal, Volume 2,

No. 3, 1981.

Giordano, Frank; Wells, Michael; Wilde, Carroll,

"Dimensional Analysis," UMAP Module No. 526, 1981.

Giordano, Frank; Wilde, Carroll, "Khacian's Algor-

ithm," UMAP Journal, Volume 1, No. 3, 1980

Giordano, Frank, Manual De Capacidad, Ministerio de

Obras Publicas, Madrid, Spain, 1974.

Giordano, Frank; Fox, William; Maddox, Steve; Weir,

Maurice, Mathematical Modeling with Minitab,

Brooks and Cole Publishing Company, 1985.

Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, "Mathematical Model-

ing in the Undergraduate Curriculum," Mathematical

Modeling and its Applications, 1985.

Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, "Mathematical Model-

ing in the Undergraduate Curriculum," Proceedings

of the Fifth Conference of the Association of

Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 1986.

Giordano, Frank; Fox, William; Maddox, Steve; Weir,

Maurice, "Mathematical Modeling with Minitab,"

Minitab Teaching Packet, Minitab Corporation, 1986.

Giordano, Frank; Cameron, David; Weir, Maurice, "Modeling

Using the Derivative: Numerical and Analytic

Solutions," UMAP Module No. 625, 1982.

Giordano, Frank; Fox, William; Maddox, Steve; Weir,

Maurice, "Teaching Linear Programming with

Minitab," CoED Journal, Computers in Education

Division of ASEE, 1986.

Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, Teaching the First Course in

Mathematical Modeling, Brooks and Cole Publishing Comp-

any, 1985.

Giordano, Frank; Garren, Mary; Garren, Lloyd, "The Garren

Gastric Bubble," Endoscopy Review, Volume 1, No. 2,

September 1984.

Giordano, Frank, "The Use of Dimensional Analysis in Math-

ematical Modeling," UMAP Journal, Volume 7, No. 2,

1986.

Giordano, Frank; Jaye, Michael; Weir, Maurice, "The Use of

Dimensional Analysis in Mathematical Modeling," UMAP

Module No. 632, 1982.

Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, "The Use of UMAP Modules in

a Modeling Course," UMAP Journal, Volume 6, No. 6,

1985.

Giordano, Frank, "The Strength of Surrogate Constraints for

Linear Zero-One Integer Programming Problem," Naval

Postgraduate School Technical Report NPS 55-82-008,

February 1982.