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Meet some of your new faculty.
Edward R. Lawrence loves teaching and research. Edward Lawrence began with a bachelor’s degree in technology in material science and metallurgical engineering. Next, he got an MBA. Now, with a Ph.D. in finance, he has joined the College’s faculty. During his six years in the business process re-engineering area of Tata Engineering Ltd., India’s largest auto company, he advanced from engineer to senior engineer, and then to assistant manager. Once in management, he realized his engineering degree wasn’t sufficient, so he turned to an MBA, which he received from University of Nebraska in Lincoln. After just one year in that program, he got a graduate assistantship in finance and realized how much he enjoyed that discipline. When he was offered a chance to get his Ph.D., with the department paying for it, he was happy to accept. He has no regrets, since teaching is one of his passions. His second is research; currently, he has seven articles published or in process.
Stephen Wen-Jen Lin has a strong research bent. Stephen Lin had heard of Florida International University when he was in Taiwan, where the University has a reputation for its dynamism and teaching orientation. His primary interest is in research—often with a focus on reporting financial performance—and he was delighted to learn that the University, including its School of Accounting, also has stature in the area of research. He has twenty papers and research projects either in process or published. One paper was the second-most downloaded paper of a journal over a six-year period and another won “best paper prize for 2002.” Despite his focus on research, teaching is important to him, too. He has four years’ experience as a lecturer at the University of Manchester in England, where he received his doctorate. Lin is in charge of international accounting at the graduate level, is developing an undergraduate course in international accounting, and looks forward to developing the new Ph.D. program in the School.
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