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Robert Walker
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Dr. Walker holds a B.A. in political science from Goddard College, a J.D. from Vermont Law School, and an L.L.M. in tax law from Boston University Law School. While on a Fulbright International Fellowship (in conjunction with the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Economics IRIS project), Dr. Walker taught for two years at the Kazahkstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and for the American Bankers Association. Dr. Walker was a practicing attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel (International and General Litigation Divisions), Internal Revenue Service, in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the bars of the State of New York, the District of Columbia, the United States Tax Court, the Federal Court of Claims, and the United States Supreme Court. Dr. Walker has extensive additional professional experience in government and industry as an attorney working in tax, estate and trust law. He has taught in Okinawa and Korea since joining the UMUC faculty in 2002.
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Mervin Whealy
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Dr. Whealy earned a B.A. and M.A. in education from Fresno State College, an M.Div. from Southeastern Baptist Seminary, an M.A. in history from Wake Forest University, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has extensive teaching experience in both the Asian and European Divisions of UMUC, having initially joined the Asian Division in 1979 and rejoining UMUC in Asia most recently in 1993. He has also taught at several other institutions including Chapman College, Hancock College, Orange Coast College, Santa Ana College and the University of Nevada at Reno, as well as Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the institutions of the University System of Maryland. During three years with UMUC in Europe Dr. Whealy taught in Germany, Italy, and the Azores; in Asia he has taught at numerous locations in Japan, Korea, Kwajalein, and Okinawa.
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David Wills
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Mr. Wills earned his B.S. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his M.S. in computer science from New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, New Mexico. He has taken additional graduate work in computer science at the University of Minnesota. He has taught at New Mexico State and the University of Minnesota, and during academic year 1990-91 in UMUC's European Division, at sites in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Mr. Wills has professional experience in the computer field with a number of organizations including the National Security Agency; Dynalectron Corporation, at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; the department of physics at New Mexico State University; the New Mexico Solar Energy Institute; and the IBM and Honeywell corporations. He has taught in Korea and Okinawa, and in the UMUC distance education program, since joining the Asian Division faculty in 1996.
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Peter Wodarz
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Mr. Wodarz holds a B.S. in English and German from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and an M.A. in literature from The American University. He has taught at The American University, and also at the secondary level. Mr. Wodarz has a wide variety of experience teaching English as a second language, having taught ESL to adult students in Washington, D.C., to international students aged ten to sixteen in Minnesota, and to Japanese children and adults in Osaka, Japan. He joined the UMUC faculty in May 1993 and has taught at numerous different locations in Korea, Japan, and Okinawa.
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Andrew Won
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Mr. Won holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from George Washington University, and a M.S. in electrical engineering and a M.S. in applied mathematics, both from Johns Hopkins University. A certified electronics engineer, he was employed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland for seven years. He has extensive experience in developing networking solutions for a Westinghouse LAN; engineering, testing, and troubleshooting radar communications systems (RF and microwave); and designing digital circuits. Mr. Won also designed and assembled PC boards for electronic guidance systems, and modified and implemented software testing packages for the US government. Mr. Won joined the UMUC Asia faculty in 1994, teaching in Korea, Okinawa, and in the Distance Education Program, and in 2006, received the Drazek Teaching Excellence Award.
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