Robert T. Monroe

Teaching Professor of Business Technologies

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Bio

Dr. Robert T. Monroe is Teaching Professor of Business Technologies in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, Dr. Monroe was the Associate Dean for Carnegie Mellon's international branch campus in Doha, Qatar. Before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Monroe worked in the software industry at a variety of companies including FreeMarkets, IBM, Carnegie Group, and OptiMetrics where he led the conception, design, development, and launch of a wide variety of successful software products and software-based services. Dr. Monroe holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Philosophy and Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University - Ph D (Computer Science) - 1999
• Carnegie Mellon University - MS (Computer Science) - 1995
• University of Michigan - BS (Computer Science and Philosophy) - 1993

Research

Product and service innovation, product management, technology-enabled learning, international education, prototyping and makerspaces

Publications

• A Satisficing Choice Model

  (author(s): Peter Stuettgen, Peter Boatwright, Robert Monroe)
  INFORMS / Marketing Science 31(6), 2012; 878-899

• Acme:Architectural Description of Component-Based Systems; David Garlan, Robert Monroe and David Wile
  Foundations of Component-Based Systems, Gary T. Leavens and Murali Sitaraman (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  Foundations of Component-Based System, Gray T. Leavens and Murali Sitaraman (eds), Cambridge University press, 2000,pp.47-68, 2000

• Rapid Development of Custom Software Architecture Design Environments

  Doctoral Dissertation,CMU School of Computer Science, Technical Report CMU-CS-99-161, August 1999, 1999

• Acme: An Architecture Description Interchange Language

  Proceeding of CASCON '97, 1997

• Architectural Styles, Design Patterns, And Objects

  (author(s): Robert Monroe, Andrew Kompanek, Ralph Melton, David Garlan)
  IEEE Software 14(1), 1997; 43-&

• Capturing Design Expertise in Customized Software Architecture Design Environments

  Proceedings of the Second International Software Architecture Workshop, October 1996, 1996

• Style -Based Reuse for Software Architectures

  Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Reuse, April 1996, 1996

• Implementing Distributed Server Groups for the Worls Wide Web

  (author(s): Robert Monroe, Michael Garland, Sebastian Grassia, Siddhartha Puri)
  CMU School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-95-114, 1995

Awards and Honors

• Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar - Charles E. Thorpe Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding University Citizenship (2012)
• CASCON Conference - First Decade High Impact Paper Award (2010)
• Kodak - Kodak Graduate Fellow (1999)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (1997)