Dr. Scott D. Johnson
Associate Professor of Engineering
Engineering Coordinator
- Actively served on the Associate of Science in Engineering (ASE)
Oversight Council to establish a new degree in Maryland to
enhance transferability of engineering students from two-year
to four-year institutes. New degree was established in 2009
- Actively served on the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Faculty Disciplinary Committee to find common ground and work
towards on actually implementation of an ASE degree for two
disciplines: Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
- Created an engineering brochure that informed the students
of all twelve possible engineering courses available at Prince
George's Community College (PGCC)
- Created the first engineering web site at Prince George's
Community College for the 50-plus year old program
- Created three new engineering courses to fill voids in the
first two years of engineering curriculum: Computer Programming
for Engineers and Scientists, Material Science for Engineers and
Scientists, and Honors Seminar in Engineering and Science
- Active participant in PGCC's Partnership for Research
and Education in Materials (PREM) with Howard University and
Johns Hopkins University
- Successfully worked toward having all courses offered and taught
in a two-year period for the first time in the program's history
- Redesigned all the general engineering course and all the electrical
engineering courses to reflect a more up-to-date curriculum
- Handled numerous requests for information from other engineering
coordinators, perspective new engineering students, and present engineering
students
- Gave a number of presentations on PGCC's engineering program in order
to encourage more students to enroll, but also to increase the general
awareness of engineering among the general public
- Worked with others to write and win scholarship grants
Engineering Professor
- Redesign, planned, instructed, managed, and graded a number of freshman and
sophomore engineering courses including laboratories
- Mentor and advise students in engineering and sciences
Detector Science and Engineering
- Served as one of the leaders in formulating the
direction of the NASA/GSFC Detector Characterization Laboratory
(DCL) since its inception in 1998
- Served as a lead in developing concepts and performing
analysis for a number of space-based instruments
- Served as a lead in directing and designing a live
radiation experiment of flight-like detectors
- Led the creation of a mini-laboratory for software
development and portable experiments using data acquisition system
hardware
- Developed concepts and performed analysis to produce a
new method to ameliorate the effects of radiation damage in a CCD
- Created DCL pseudocode for
communicating critical detector hardware and software information to
flight designers
Space
Sciences
- Analyzed data from two far infrared surveys to extract
cosmological parameters
- Produced a study on the noise power spectra of unique
gyroscope for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Project Science
Office
Earth
Sciences
- Improved production code to calculate the Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from earth satellite data
- Produced code to restore a simulated image from a
space-based earth viewing instrument for a sensitivity study on
OTFs
- Analyzed the effects of ghosting on the a multi-spectral instrument
- Provided an analytic solution of laboratory humidity
for a sensitivity study
Web
Development
- Served as technical lead and
wrote articles for a number of scientific web sites at NASA which
include a number of sites associated with HST.
- Created a site that produces orbital decay plots for low earth orbit
satellites given user inputted parameters.
The template for this site with associated programs was used by my
assistants to produce dynamic plots in several pages on the HST's
Wide Field Camera 3 site.
Teaching
Assistant/Research Assistant/Instructor
- Taught developmental mathematics courses at Prince George's Community College
- Provided consultation to the Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Science
(IACS at CUA)
- Planned and instructed non-calculus-based physics courses including preparing and grading exams (CUA)
- Developed and implemented several computational methods to simulate a solid state transition (CUA)
- Wrote several computer simulation projects as a research assistant (CUA)
- Taught recitation and laboratory for Calculus-based freshman physics (CUA)
- Led the computer laboratory including staff employment and management
(Harris-Stowe State College now known as Harris-Stowe State University)
- Created and taught computer skills to St. Louis area teachers (K-12)
(Harris-Stowe State College)