Education: Lehigh University (BS, 1967; MS, 1968); North Carolina State University (PhD, 1975).
Professional Experience: Operations analyst with Research Triangle Institute; industrial engineer with IBM.
Teaching: Associate Professor of Information Systems, currently teaches in the areas of networking protocols, data communications and network security at the graduate level and networking at the undergraduate level.
Research: Computer / network security and application of operations research techniques to problems related to computer systems.
Homepage: http://www.isy.vcu.edu/~rcoppins/Department: Information Systems
Publications:
"An Improved Suite of Object-Oriented Measures," Journal of Computer Information Systems, to appear Fall, 2005 (co-authored with Drs. R. Neal and H. R. Weistroffer
