At its May 11 meeting the Texas A&M University Faculty Senate elected Dr. Walter Daugherity, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee for the 2015-2016 academic year. Previously Daugherity served as the Speaker of the Texas A&M Faculty Senate. Dr. Robert H. Strawser, professor and Arthur Andersen & Co. Chair in Accounting in the Mays Business School, will hold the Speaker position beginning this fall. Dr. Angie Hill Price, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, was elected Secretary-Treasurer and was Speaker in 2007-2008.
The Faculty Senate was formed to foster a community of mutual respect and cooperation and to broaden communication in matters of concern to the university. It is the body elected by faculty to represent them in all academic matters.
Daugherity received a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma Christian University, and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1987. In addition to research and publication he has been very active in creating and upgrading courses, especially in the Honors Program. He developed the Honors sections of Introduction to Program Design and Concepts, Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics and Engineering, and has been the adviser for six senior Honors theses. In this past academic year, Daugherity taught the Introduction to Program Design and Concepts course and Programming Studio, where students work on 2 or 3 month-long projects that emphasize a different specialization within computer science, and focus on programming techniques to ease code integration, reusability and clarity.
Among his numerous honors and awards are the Harvard Bowdoin Prize, ACM's Outstanding Regional Intercollegiate Programming Contest Director award, the CSE department's Undergraduate Faculty Award, and the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award from the Graduate Student Council.