Rate My Professor Edward Sewell

Edward Sewell is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso, a position reflecting his long-standing contributions to the field since joining the faculty in 1983. He progressed through the ranks from Assistant Professor (1983-1988) to Associate Professor (1988-2003) and Full Professor from 2003 onward. Earlier in his career, Sewell served as a Lecturer in the Mathematics Department at Universidad Simon Bolivar (1973-1975), Engineer in Engineering Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1977-1978), Visiting Faculty at Purdue University (1978-1979), and Software Designer at IMSL, Inc. (1979-1983). He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Purdue University (1972) and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (1977). Additional appointments include Systems Analyst at the University of Texas Center for High Performance Computing (1990-1991), Visiting Faculty at Texas A&M University (2004-2006), and Fulbright U.S. Scholar Lecturer in Mathematics at the National University of Tucuman, Argentina (August-November 1999).

Sewell's academic interests center on numerical analysis, with a focus on computational methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations using finite element techniques. He developed PDE2D, an easy-to-use software package for solving nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations in two-dimensional regions with general boundaries. His key textbooks include "Analysis of a Finite Element Method: PDE/PROTRAN" (Springer-Verlag, 1985), "The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations" (Academic Press, 1988; second edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2005; third edition, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2015), "Computational Methods of Linear Algebra" (Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1990; third edition, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2014), and "Solving Partial Differential Equation Applications with PDE2D" (John Wiley & Sons, 2018). Sewell has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with representative works such as "Numerical Schemes for Pricing Asian Options under State-dependent, Regime-switching, Jump-diffusion Models" (Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2016), "Non-Fraunhofer Interference Pattern in Inhomogeneous Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions" (Physical Review Letters, 2012), and "Thermal Structure, Coupling and Metamorphism in the Mexican Subduction Zone beneath Guerrero" (Geophysical Journal International, 2004).