Donna Reese

From Ece

Donna Reese is the Associate Dean of everything that is engineering. Therefore she can be considered part of ECE, so there.

This is "Momma Donna" Reese. Yes, she is married to Robert B. Reese.

Biography

Donna Reese received her BS degree in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University in 1979. After a year as a software engineer for General Dynamics in Fort Worth, TX, she returned to graduate school at Texas A&M University. She received her MS degree in 1981 and her PhD in 1985, both in Computer Science. She served as an instructor at the University of Texas in Austin for one year in 1987. Donna joined the faculty of the Computer Science & Engineering at Mississippi State in 1989 as a visiting professor. She served as the System Software Thrust Leader for MSU's NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation from 1990-1997. She served as the Computer Science & Engineering Department's undergraduate coordinator from 1997 until 2004. She was promoted to full professor in 2003. Donna is a Grisham Master Teacher and was awarded on Outstanding Faculty Advisor award in 2004 from the National Academic Advising Association. In July 2004 she moved to the dean's office where she currently serves as Associate Dean for Academics and Administration.