Meet The Faculty
Dr. Tyler Kenefake
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education:
2012 - BSE in Mathematics, East Texas Baptist University, Marshall, TX
Biography:
Tyler teaches all levels of mathematics, including online graduate courses in the Master of Science in Mathematics program. He also advises pre-engineering majors and is a faculty liaison to dual credit teachers across Missouri.
Research Interests:
Tyler has advised student projects in the following areas: satellite motion, Colley’s bias free matrix rankings, Reed-Solomon error correction for QR codes, cryptography, probability of employee turnover including Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, math and statistics of voting power, statistical analysis of CMU COVID-19 data, Raman spectroscopy, and the singular value decomposition.
Professional Memberships:
Missouri Academy of Science, Vice-chair of Computer Science and Math Section
Mathematical Association of America, member
American Mathematical Society, member
Dr. Andrew McCrady
Associate Professor of Math
Education:
Publications:
A. McCrady and D. Weston, Descent and ascent of perinormality in some ring extension settings, Journal of Algebra, Volume 512, October 2018, pgs. 189-215.
Dr. Grant Swicegood
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Education:
Biography:
Grant Swicegood teaches undergraduate mathematics at all levels, as well as graduate mathematics courses in the Master's of Science in Mathematics online program. He is also a faculty sponsor of the Kappa Mu Epsilon mathematics honors society and of the student gaming group, Game Geeks. In addition, he advises Pre-Engineering students and serves as a Faculty Liaison to mathematics dual-credit teachers across Missouri.
Professional Memberships:
NCTM, MAA, MAS
