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Paul Garvey

Part-time Faculty

Advancing Studies

Biography

Paul R. Garvey, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Chief Scientist (retired) at The MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates federally funded research and development centers for the U.S. government, where he worked extensively with the defense and national security communities. He is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and 4 textbooks published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. His academic and teaching experience spans more than 20 years in both mathematics and systems engineering. At Boston College, he designed and taught the upper-level mathematics major elective Mathematical Modeling and the graduate course Mathematical Economics for many years. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Old Dominion University, where he taught the graduate course Engineering Systems Risk Analysis .

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3.79 / 5

Based on 46 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

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