Karen P. Patten
Senior Instructor
Department of Technology Support & Training Management
College of Hospitality, Sport and Retail Management
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
M.S. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
B.S. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Research Interests
Flexible and agile IT management and leadership
Small business IT management
Wireless and mobile telecommunications
IT project management.
Awards and Honors
Conference Best Research – Practice Paper, ISOneWorld, 2007, with Katia Passerini.
Excellence in Teaching award, NJIT School of Management, 2005.
Biography
Karen P. Patten is a Senior Instructor in the Technology Support and Training Management Program at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. She teaches technology project management, networking, and telecommunications. She has a B.S. in Honors Economics from Purdue University, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Information Systems at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Ms. Patten has taught MIS, IT management, and telecommunications at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the National Technological University. She is the author of Data Networking Made Easy (Aegis Publishing Group, 2000) and has published articles in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Cutter IT Journal, and the International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals.
Publications
Fjermestad, J., Passerinin, K, Bartolacci, M. R., and Patten, K. (2008) ‘Wireless Connectivity and Its Relationship to Emerging Economies: the Example of China,’ International Journal of Mobile Communications (6:5), pp. 633-645.
Passerini, K., Patten, K. P., Bartolacci, M., & Fjermestad, J. (2007). The expansion of wireless in the US and China: Gradual evolution or rapid revolution? Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), 50(10), 25-28.
Fjermestad, J., Passerini, K., Patten, K. Bartolacci, M., & Ullman, D. (2006). Moving towards mobile third generation telecommunications standards: The good and bad of the ‘anytime/anywhere’ solutions. Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), 17, 71-89.
Passerini, K., & Patten, K. P. (2005). Preparing the IT department in small and large organizations for the mobile revolution. Mobile and Wireless Computing at a Crossroads: Where are We Heading, Cutter IT Journal, 8, 19-27.
Patten, K. P. (2004). How CIOs balance flexibility and reliability in uncertain business environments. International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals, 5(1), 3-15.
Patten, K. P. (2000). Data Networking Made Easy, Aegis Publishing Group, Ltd., Newport RI.
Professional Affiliations
New Jersey Society for Information Management
United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Small Business Institute
Decision Sciences Institute
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Information Systems
Society of Women Engineers
American Society for Engineering Management
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. |
E-mail: pattenk@sc.edu
Office: Rm 112A, Carolina Coliseum
Phone: (803)-777-2937
Fax: (803)-777-9564
Courses Taught:
TSTM 264 - Computer Applications in Business
TSTM 345 - Introduction to Networking
TSTM 445 - Advanced Networking
TSTM 545 - Telecommunications
TSTM 564 - Project Management for Information Systems
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