FIG Commission 2 - Professional Education
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Prof. Steven Merrill Frank, Chair of FIG Commission 2
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Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth:
Nationality: USA
Status:
Current Position: Professor
This CV as a .pdf-file.
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Education:
- Ph.D. Surveying Engineering, University of Maine (May
1994)
- M.Sc. Civil Engineering (Survey Emphasis), California
State University, Fresno (May 1991)
- B.Sc. Surveying Engineering, California State University,
Fresno (December 1989)
Professional licenses:
- California Licensed Land Surveyor No. 4800 (received
1980)
- New Mexico Professional Surveyor No. 13052 (received
1996)
Professional awards:
- New Mexico ?Surveyor of the Year? 2007
Work experience:
- Promoted to Professor, August 2009, in the Surveying
Engineering program.
- August 2006 ? present: Program Coordinator for
the Surveying Engineering program within the Department of
Engineering Technology and Surveying Engineering.
- July 2002 ? June 2006: Department Head of the
Department of Surveying Engineering at New Mexico State
University. This is an 80% teaching position and 20%
administrative position.
- July 1999 ? June 2002: Associate Professor in the
Department of Surveying Engineering at New Mexico State
University teaching courses in Plane Surveying, USPLSS,
Boundary Surveying, Land Subdivision, Ethics, and Land
Information Systems
- August 1994 ? June 1999: Assistant Professor in
the Department of Surveying Engineering at New Mexico State
University teaching courses in Plane Surveying,
Photogrammetry, USPLSS, Boundary Surveying, Land Subdivision,
Ethics, and Land Information Systems.
- August 1991 - May 1992: Employed part-time as a
Teaching Assistant for the Surveying Engineering Department
at the University of Maine. Taught surveying field labs.
- January 1990 - May 1991: Employed part-time as a
Teaching Assistant for the Surveying Engineering Department
at California State University, Fresno. Taught
photogrammetry lab and Introductory Computer Mapping (2
semesters each).
- May 1989 - August 1989: Employed by Erio
Technologies, Roseville, California. Developed file
management software for the MAP/PAL/ALBANY aerotriangulation
software. Performed aerotriangulation computations.
- May 1988 - August 1988: Employed by Caltrans as a
Student Assistant. Worked in Caltrans Photogrammetry Section,
Sacramento, California. Performed aerotriangulation
computations. Developed PC-orientated aerotriangulation
system and file management software.
- September 1986 - May 1987: Full-time student at
American River Junior College in Sacramento, California.
- July 1985 - August 1986: Employed as a plumbing
estimator by Aable Plumbing, Rancho Cordova, California.
- March 1982 - June 1985: Employed by Al Hoty
Establishment, Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia. Seconded to the
Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO) as a Supervising
Surveyor, directing 2 - 10 survey field crews performing
mapping and construction surveys.
- April 1980 - February 1982: Self-employed
Licensed Land Surveyor performing construction and boundary
surveys in Fair Oaks, California.
- September 1979 - March 1980: Employed as Party
Chief for John Seace, Licensed Land Surveyor, in Sacramento,
California, performing construction and boundary surveys.
- July 1978 - August 1979: Employed as Party Chief
for Payne Surveying, Redding, California, performing
boundary surveys. Projects included U. S. Forest Service
contract surveys.
- September 1970 - June 1978: Employed by Yolo
County Department of Public Works, Woodland, California.
Promoted from rodman to instrument man to party chief.
Research experience:
- September 2003 ? May 2007: co-PI Assistance
Agreement for Training Student Land Surveyors, Bureau of
Land Management, Cadastral Surveys Division.
- May 1998 - September 1998: Principal Investigator
Toole Army Depot Historical Records Research project.
Directed and coordinated historical record research for the
Toole Army Depot in Toole, Utah.
- February 1997 - February 1998: Principal
Investigator in the development of a continuing education
course in Surveying Ethics for the National Council of
Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. The research includes
developing a manual on ethics study, a casebook of surveying
ethical situations, and a pass/fail exam. Outcomes of this
research include a distance education course and seminars on
ethics for surveyors. This research led to the establishment
of the Center for Survey Ethics Studies at NMSU.
- January 1994 - June 1994: Post-doctoral Research
Assistant, department of Surveying, University of Maine.
Developed a mail survey questionnaire to gather information
on user needs for digital geographic data for use by the
Federal Geographic Data Committee to develop "framework
geospatial data" for the National Information Infrastructure.
- May 1992 - July 1994: Research Assistant,
Department of Surveying, University of Maine. Research and
publication for GIS-related doctoral dissertation.
- April 1990 - May 1991: Employed part-time as a
Student Assistant for the California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans). Working as a software developer
for total station data collector reduction package.
- April 1989, January 1989, August 1988, January 1988:
Employed by CSU Fresno as a research assistant and trainer
for GPS survey research projects with the Los Angeles Power
and Water Agency, the City of Fresno, Caltrans and the City
of Visalia. Planned, collected and processed data.
Consulting experience:
- April 2008: I am involved as an expert witness
for an ongoing boundary dispute involving the location of an
accident. The accident occurred close to the property
boundary, hence the interest in the location of the boundary.
- June 2006: Expert witness in a boundary dispute
involving two private parking companies at the Albuquerque
Airport. I prepared an exhibit showing the disputed area
which was produced in court as a part of the trial.
- May 1997 ? May 1998: Expert witness for Sandia
Pueblo, New Mexico, assisting in establishing their claim to
lands resulting from poor surveys.
- 1996 - 2000: Pro bono consultant working with New
Mexico attorney Nancy Simmons on colonias (illegal
subdivisions) in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, at El Milagro
(Hatch), Vado, and Rio Grande Estates (Fairacres).
- July 1997 - December 1997: Expert witness for
Duran party in Diaz v. Duran involving the location of
property lines in Cox Subdivision No. 3, Las Cruces, New
Mexico.
Refereed publications:
- Frank, Steven (2007) ?ABET Accreditation Criteria for
Surveying/Geomatics Programs in the US,? Scientia Est
Potentia: Knowledge is Power, Czech Technical University,
Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 37-46.
- Frank, Steven (2002) ?FIG Academic Membership?,
Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 62, No. 2, June
2002, pp. 91-93
- Frank, Steven and Robert Prescott (2002) ?NAFTA and
Surveying?, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 62,
No. 1, March 2002, pp. 33-36.
- Frank, Steven (2001) ?Using Matrices to Document Abet
Self-study Reports?, Surveying and Land Information Systems,
Vol. 61, No. 4, December 2001, pp. 241-244.
- Thurow, Glen and Steven Frank. Coming to Terms with the
Model Law: The Search for the Definition of Surveying in New
Mexico. Surveying and LIS, Vol. 61, No. 1, March 2001.
- Frank, Steven (2000) ?Teaching Surveying Ethics by
Distance?, Surveying and LIS, Vol 60, No. 1, March 2000, pp.
19-22
- Frank, Steven (2000) ?BLM and NMSU ? A Cooperation in
Teaching?, Surveying and LIS, Vol 60, No. 1, March 2000, pp.
51-54
- Frank, Steven, and Knud Hermansen (1998). Case Studies:
Ethical Practices for Surveyors. Las Cruces: Department of
Surveying, NMSU. (Sponsored by the National Council of
Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors).
- Frank, Steven, Knud Hermansen, and Danny Scoccia.
Professionalism and Ethics in Surveying. Las Cruces, NM:
Department of Surveying, NMSU. (Sponsored by the National
Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors).
- Frank, Steven (1997). "Cataloging Digital Geographic
Data in the Information Infrastructure,? in Encyclopedia of
Library and Information Science, vol. 59, supp. 22, New
York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 20-53.
- Frank, Steven M., Michael F. Goodchild, Harlan J.
Onsrud, and Jeffrey K. Pinto (1996). "User Requirements for
Framework Geospatial Data." Journal of Urban and Regional
Information Systems Association, Vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 38-50.
- Rushton, Gerard, and Steven Frank (1995). "Sharing
Spatial Data Among Social Scientists." in Sharing Geographic
Information, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, Center
for Urban Policy Research.
- Frank, Steven (1994). "The National Spatial Data
Infrastructure: Designing Navigational Strategies." Journal
of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Vol.
6, No. 1, pp. 37-55.
- Frank, Steven (1994). "Cataloging Digital Geographic
Data in the Information Infrastructure: A Literature and
Technology Review." Information Processing & Management,
Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 587-606.
Non-refereed publications:
- Groenendiyk, Liza, Bela Markus, Steven Frank, Reifried
Mansburger, Adrijana Car, James Petch, Nicolas Frunzi and
Pei Linlin (2010) ?Enhancing Surveying Education through
e-Learning, FIG Publication No. 46, January 2010.
- Frank, Steven (2005), ?Guest Editorial: When Surveyors
Go Bad,? American Surveyor, Vol. 2, No. 4, June 2005.
- Glen Thurow and Steven Frank (2001), ?Coming to Terms
with the Model Law: The Search for a Definition of Surveying
in New Mexico?, Surveying and Land Information Systems, Vol.
61, No. 1.
- Frank, Steven (1999). ?Education and ACSM.? The ACSM
Bulletin, No. 179, May/June 1999, pp. 27.
- Comer, Christy S., and Steven Frank.(1998). Tooele Army
Depot Installation Historical Records Report: Historic
Context and Property Types. Las Cruces, NM:Human Research
Systems, Inc. - New Mexico State University.
- Frank, Steven (1998). "New Surveying Licensing Model
Being Proposed." Benchmarks, v. 12, no.3, pp. 9.
- Frank, Steven (1997). ?Professionalism in Surveying.?
The Arizona Surveyor, March, pp. 18.
- Frank, Steven M., Michael F. Goodchild, Harlan J.
Onsrud, and Jeffrey K. Pinto (1995). "User Requirements for
Framework GIS Data." URISA Annual Conference Proceedings,
San Antonio, TX, vol.1, pp. 637-651
- Frank, Steven (1995). A National Spatial Data
Infrastructure as a Marketplace for Geographic Data. GIS in
Business Proceedings, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Recent Presentations and Activities
- ?Proposed Commission 2 Work Plan 2011-2014? presented at
the Commission 2 Workshop, London, England, August 26-28,
2010.
- ?Proposed Commission 2 Work Plan 2011-2014? presented at
the FIG Congress, Sydney, Australia, April 9 ? 16, 2010.
- ?Surveying Ethics? a two-hour seminar presented twice at
the New Mexico Professional Surveyors Annual Conference,
Albuquerque, NM, February 2010.
- ?Proposed Commission 2 Work Plan 2011-2014? presented at
the FIG Regional Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 17 ?
21, 2009.
- ?Assessment of Learning Outcomes? presented at FIG
Working Week, Eilat, Israel, May 4?8 2009.
- ?Surveying Student Recruitment: a U.S. Perspective?
presented at the Commission 2 Workshop, Vienna, Austria,
February 25 ? 28, 2009.
- ?Fundamental Surveying Knowledge? presented at the FIG
Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2008.
- ?Learning Outcomes Assessment ? Setting and Measuring
Goals? to be presented at the FIG Annual Meeting, Stockholm,
Sweden, June 2008.
- Surveying Ethics Seminar, presented at the New Mexico
Professional Surveyors Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM,
March 2008.
- Session Chair, ?Spatial Information Management Toward
Environmental Management of Mega Cities,? International
Federation of Surveyors meeting, Valencia, Spain, February
2008.
- Legal Descriptions Seminar presented at the New Mexico
Professional Surveyors meeting, Ruidoso, NM, August 2007.
- Surveying Ethics Seminar presented at the New Mexico
Professional Surveyors meeting, Ruidoso, NM, August 2007.
- ?ABET Accreditation Criteria for Surveying/Geomatics
Programs in the US? presented at Sciencia Est Potentia:
Knowledge is Power, Czech Technical University, Prague,
Czech Republic, June 2007.
- ?Experiences Teaching Ethics? presented at the FIG
Annual Meeting in Hong Kong, PRC, May 2007.
- ?Design of a Surveying Curriculum? presented at the FIG
Annual Meeting in Hong Kong, PRC, May 2007.
- Surveying Ethics Seminar, presented at the New Mexico
Professional Surveyors meeting, Ruidoso, NM, August 2007.
- Surveying Ethics Seminar, presented twice at Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, for the Oklahoma Society of Land Surveyors
at the Annual Meeting, April 2007.
- Surveying Ethics Seminar, presented at Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, for the Oklahoma Society of Land Surveyors,
September, 2006.
- ?The Sandia Pueblo East Boundary,? presented at the CSU
Fresno 40th Annual Geomatics Conference, January 2006.
- Surveying Ethics seminar presented at ACSM Conference,
Phoenix, AZ, April 2004.
- Surveying Ethics seminar, presented at the joint New
Mexico/Colorado Four Corners Workshop, Durango, Co, June
2002.
- ?Core Curriculum Content of US Surveying/Geomatics
Programs? presented at joint ACSM/ASPRS/FIG Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC, March 2002.
- Guest Editor, Surveying and Land Information Science,
Vol. 62, No. 1, March 2002.
- ?The Sandia Pueblo East Boundary,? presented at the 2000
ACSM Fall Conference, Providence, RI, September 2000.
- Guest Co-editor, Surveying and Land Information Systems,
Vol. 60, No. 1, March 2000, Surveying Ethics seminar (4
hours, presented twice at the 2000 ACSM Conference, Little
Rock, Arkansas.
- A Cooperative Education Strategy: NMSU and BLM. North
American Surveying and Mapping Teachers Conference, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, July 12, 1999.
- Teaching Survey Ethics by Distance. North American
Surveying and Mapping Teachers Conference, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN, July 12, 1999.
- Surveying Ethics. CSU Fresno Student?s Surveying
Conference, Fresno, CA, January 23, 1999.
- Teaching Survey Ethics by Distance. Best Practices
Conference, College of Engineering, New
Mexico State University, January 14, 1999.
- Sandia Pueblo East Boundary. New Mexico Professional
Surveyors Conference, Albuquerque, NM, March 22, 1999.
Editorial Work:
- 2007 ? present: Editor of Surveying and Land
Information Science
- 1997 ? 2007: Education Editor/ Associate Editor
for Surveying and Land Information Systems (SaLIS)
- March 2002: Special issue editor, Surveying and
Land Information Systems
- 2001 ? present: member of Editorial Board and
manuscript reviewer for Survey Review
- March 2001: Special issue editor, Surveying and
Land Information Systems
- December 1999: Special issue co-editor, Surveying
and Land Information Systems
Professional service:
Member of the following professional organizations:
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
- American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)
- American Association for Geodetic Surveyors (AAGS)
- Geographic and Land Information Society (GLIS)
- American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
- American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE)
- Arizona Professional Land Surveyors (APLS)
- California Land Surveyors Association (CLSA)
- New Mexico Professional Surveyors (NMPS)
- Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (TSPS)
Professional society offices held:
- 2009 ? present: ABET ASAC Commission member
- 2002: Past-president of New Mexico Professional
Surveyors
- 2001: President of NMPS
- 2000: President-elect of NMPS
- 1999: Vice -president of NMPS
- 2002-2005: New Mexico Governor to NSPS
- 1999 ? 2001: New Mexico Governor to NSPS
- 2004: Past-president of American Association for
Geodetic Surveyors
- 2003: President of AAGS
- 2002:President-elect of AAGS
- 2001: Vice-president of AAGS
- 1997 - 2000: Board member of AAGS
Professional society committees served:
- 2008 ? 2010: Chair-elect FIG Commission 2
- 2002-present: US delegate to Commission 2: Professional
Education of FIG
- 2000-2002: Reporter-editor attached to US delegation to
FIG
- 1998- present: NMPS Surveyor of the Year Committee
- 1996 ? present: Vice-chair NSPS Education Committee
- 1996 - 2001: Vice-chair ACSM Education Committee
- 1997 - 2002: member ACSM Communications Committee
- 1997 - present: member ACSM Curriculum, Accreditation
and Registration (CAR) Committee
Professional related service:
- 2000 ? 2009: ABET evaluator for Surveying programs at 7
universities
- 2007 ? 2010: President of the New Mexico Professional
Surveyors Educational Foundation.
- 1997 ? 2005: Vice-president of the New Mexico
Professional Surveyors Educational Foundation.
- 1997 ? 2001: Board member of the New Mexico Engineering
Foundation.
Academic service:
- NMSU offices and committees served:
- 1998 ? 2004: College of Engineering Senator in
Faculty Senate
- 2000 ? 2001: Chair, University Affairs Committee
- 2001 ? 2002: Chair, Scholastic Affairs Committee
- 2002 ? 2003: Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee
- 2003 ? 2004: Chair, Long Range Planning Committee
- 1999 ?2004: Faculty Senate representative to ASNMSU
Senate
- 2002 ? 2005: Surveying Engineering Dept.
representative to the Engineering Research Committee
- Fall, 2000 ? 2006: Surveying Engineering Dept.
representative to COE Academic Advisory Council
- Spring, 1999? 2006: Dept. of Surveying
representative to College of Engineering ABET committee
(now the COE Outcomes Assessment Committee)
- Spring, 1999: Committee member for College of
Engineering Dean Search Committee
- Fall, 1999: Committee member for College of
Engineering Associate Dean Search Committee
- Fall, 1999: Committee member for College of
Engineering Associate Dean for Research Search Committee
Community service:
- 2005 ? present: Non-funded research recovering US Public
Survey System survey monuments at and around the site of the
New Mexico Spaceport, near Socorro, New Mexico. This
involves having students search, find and survey existing
monuments for educational and research purposes.
- 1996 ? 2000: Worked with Albuquerque attorney Nancy
Simmons and the Southern New Mexico Legal Services agency to
help resolve surveying issues with illegal subdivisions
(colonias) in Hatch, Vado, and Fairacres, NM.
- 1999 ? 2008: Worked with the Mesilla Valley Maze
organization to allow surveying student design and survey of
the Mesilla Valley Maze. This work has resulted in the
Mesilla Valley Maze Scholarship for Surveying Engineering
majors.
Contacts
Prof. Steven Frank
Surveying Engineering program
Dept. of Engineering Technology & Surveying Engineering
Box 30001, MSC 3566
Las Cruces, NM 88003
USA
Tel. + 1 575 646 8171
Fax + 1 575 646 6701
Email: sfrank@nmsu.edu
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