Rate My Professor Galen Turner

Galen E. Turner III is the Maxfield Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Director for Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Religious Studies from Loyola University New Orleans in 1992, an M.S. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University in 1999 with a dissertation titled Structure and Minors in Graphs and Matroids. His faculty appointments include Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Stephen F. Austin State University from 1999 to 2001 and at Louisiana Tech University from 2001 to 2007, Associate Professor at Louisiana Tech University from 2007 to 2012, and Professor since 2012. Turner has served in prominent administrative roles such as Program Chair for Cyberspace Science and Engineering from 2007 to 2012, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Science from 2008 to 2012, Chief Academic Officer of the Cyber Innovation Center from 2012 to 2014, National Director of Cyber Discovery from 2012 to 2016, Associate Director of the Integrated STEM Education Research Center since 2014, and Academic Director for Computer Science, Cyber Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Technology since 2015.

Turner's research specializations include graph theory, matroid theory, combinatorics, cyber-security, engineering education, and STEM education. Key publications feature Cycle minors and subdivisions of wheels in the Journal of Graph Theory (2009), Planar Groups with C. Starr in the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (2004), A generalization of Dirac’s theorem: Subdivisions of wheels in Discrete Mathematics (2005), and Cyber Science - Interdisciplinary Approach to Cyber Studies (2013). He received the LA/MS Section of the MAA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 and the Engineering and Science Foundation Award for Research in 2008. Turner founded the first B.S. degree in Cyber Engineering in the United States, led the Cyber Discovery project for national expansion, advised PhD students, and contributed to increased enrollments in computer science and cyber engineering programs through teacher professional development initiatives.