Matthew Hawks
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
Department(s)
College of Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), MathematicsCredentials
Ph.D., Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
Naval Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Executive MBA, University of Memphis
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, United States Naval Academy
About Matthew Hawks
Dr. Matt Hawks serves as an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department. His research interests include graph-theoretic statistics and statistics pedagogy. As a Navy veteran, his experiences include deploying aboard a nuclear submarine, managing industrial maintenance and engineering, analyzing Navy recruiting, and teaching at the Naval Academy. Married for over 30 years, he and his wife have seven children.
"“God will take you where you never intended to go, in order to accomplish what you couldn’t do on your own.” ~ Paul David Tripp In teaching, mentoring, discipling, and advising students, I use my own experiences to express the importance not of "following your heart," but of leading your heart to follow God's direction for your life. His ways may appear strange and inconvenient at the time, but they are always better."
Awards
Many military individual, unit, and campaign awards.
Signature Experiences
Board Member (2024-2028), Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences
Board Member (2023-2028), International Christian Statisticians
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
Journal article: "The Daily Question: Building Student Trust and Interest in Undergraduate Introductory Probability and Statistics Courses" Proceedings of the 2017 ACMS Conference.
Doctoral dissertation: "Graph-theoretic statistical methods for detecting and localizing change in multivariate data" Naval Postgraduate School, June 2015.