Rebecca Bourn

  • Teaching Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • Assistant to the Graduate Program Chair, Mathematical Sciences
  • Calculus 232-233 Coordinator, Mathematical Sciences

Education

  • PhD, University of Virginia, 1997
  • MAM, University of Virginia
  • BS cum laude, Milligan College, 1990

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
MATH 232-001 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II MWF 8:30am-9:45am
MATH 232-003 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II MW 11:30am-1:20pm
MATH 232-004 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II MW 2:30pm-4:20pm
MATH 232-005 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II TR 8:30am-10:20am
MATH 232-006 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II TR 11:30am-1:20pm
MATH 232-007 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II TR 2:30pm-4:20pm
MATH 232-008 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II TR 5:30pm-7:20pm
MATH 233-003 Calculus and Analytic Geometry III MW 11:30am-1:20pm
MATH 233-004 Calculus and Analytic Geometry III MW 2:30pm-4:20pm
MATH 233-005 Calculus and Analytic Geometry III MW 5:30pm-7:20pm
MATH 233-006 Calculus and Analytic Geometry III TR 8:30am-10:20am
MATH 233-007 Calculus and Analytic Geometry III TR 11:30am-1:20pm
MATH 233-008 Calculus and Analytic Geometry III TR 2:30pm-4:20pm
MATH 799-001 Seminar in Mathematics: Life after PhD R 11:30am-12:30pm

Selected Service and Projects

  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Selected Publications

  • Bourn, R and SC Baxter.  “Creating Environments for Fostering Effective Critical Thinking in Mathematics Education (Math-EFFECTs)”.  American Society for Engineering Education, 121st Annual Conference & Exposition. June 15-18, 2014.
Bourn, R, BS Fralik, and SC Baxter.  “Distributions of elastic moduli in mechanically percolating composites”.  Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, (2013).
Bourn, R and SC Baxter.  “Developing Mathematical Intuition by Building Estimation Skills”.  American Society for Engineering Education, 120th Annual Conference & Exposition. June 23-26, 2013.
Bourn, R, TE Peterson, and HG Wood.  "Solution of the pancake model for flow in a gas centrifuge by means of a temperature potential". Computer Methods in Appl Mech and Eng, 178 (1-2) (1999).
Bourn, R, RJ Babarsky, and HG Wood.  "Onsager's Minimum Principle Revisited".  Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Separation Phenomena in Liquids and Gases. 1994.

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