Assistant Professor

ME Faculty Coordinator for Special Programs

Ph.D., Boston University

phone: (617) 353-5224
email: sa@bu.edu
office: 110 Cummington Mall, Rm. ENG 112

Areas of Interest

Educational methods * Computer programming for engineers

Professor Attaway coordinates and teaches the introductory engineering course for freshmen.  Using MATLAB as the platform for instruction, she uses the approach of teaching basic programming concepts and the efficient use of built-in functions side-by-side.  In 2009 she published a book detailing this innovative approach.

Dr. Attaway is the Director of Curricular Assessment and Improvement for the College of Engineering.  In this capacity, she coordinates the curricular assessment and improvement programs within the College, in order to better the academic experience of the undergraduates.

Selected Publications

• Attaway, MATLAB: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem-Solving,  Elsevier, 2009.
• Attaway, “The Boundary Element Method for the Diffusion Equation: A Feasibility Study” in Boundary Integral Methods, Theory and Applications, Morino and Piva, eds. Springer-Verlad, 1991.