Richard Meyers

Richard Meyers

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Campus: New York City

Education Credentials: M.S.E.E.

Joined New York Tech: 1982


Richard Meyers was hired as an adjunct professor in 1982. He initially taught programming in Basic and computer hardware to technology, computer science, and engineering majors. During his time at NYIT he has taught numerous first- and second-year courses to students majoring in technology, telecommunications, engineering, and computer science.

Over this extended period, he has had a sustained interest in CS1 (introductory programming) pedagogy. Regardless of the changing pedagogy and languages presented in the various CS1 texts over the years, he has continued to emphasize semantics and the use of pseudocode in his approach. With each change in programming language, he made sure to create his own source code examples, ones he felt matched the flavor of the current language of instruction.

In 1998, Meyers published Pascal: the Software Fundamentals of Computer Science as a Prentice-Hall author. At present, he is working on a text for a self-published book, Idiomatic Programming. This book will not focus on any particular language. Its basis will be on programming semantics where the book’s cornerstone will be founded on the presentation of idioms found in any C-based programming language.

Over the last few years, he has been teaching a two-semester sequence in computational analysis. Part of the syllabus shows students how to obtain easily plotted numerical solutions to differential equations using MATLAB’s solver functions. As part of the curriculum, Meyers came up with an algorithm to apply MATLAB’s solvers to systems of equations with forcing functions that have discontinuities in them. He plans on publishing another paper to present this algorithm as an addition to the existing pedagogy.

Meyers received his B.A. degree from Hamilton College in 1968, his B.S.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1968, and his M.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University in 1977.

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