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Spotlight - LARRY ALLEN

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First Name: 
LARRY
Last Name: 
ALLEN
Email: 
lallen2@fairmontstate.edu
Department: 
Department of Technology/College of Science and Technology
Title: 
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Biography: 
Larry C. Allen holds his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from West Virginia University. Previously he worked in industry as a Plant Engineer and taught in secondary schools of public education. He has been instrumental in updating the microcontroller classes to the current generation of microcontrollers, using the Parallax Basic Stamp. The ongoing effort to maintain national accreditation under ABET has also been one of his major endeavors.
What have you learned while teaching at Fairmont State?: 
There is a lot more to making something work in practice than just knowing the theory behind it.
What do students like best about your class?: 
Knowing that what we learn in class will actually be tested in the lab. They also get the opportunity to distinguish between software and hardware problems.

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