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Dr. Philip Beaver served in the United States Army from 1983 to 2008 as an infantry officer, a professor at the U.S. Military Academy and on the Joint and Army Staffs at the Pentagon as branch chief and senior analyst. In 2008, Dr. Beaver retired after wearing a uniform for 29 years—and for the first time, he chose where he wanted to live. He and his family decided on Colorado. In 2010–2011, Dr. Beaver taught a statistics course at Daniels as an adjunct at the request of Dr. Paul Bauer, who was then the chair of the Department of Business Information and Analytics (BIA), whom Dr. Beaver knew through the local Rotary Club. “I’d forgotten how much I enjoy teaching,” says Dr. Beaver. “I find a lot of similarities between the students at Daniels and the students I taught at West Point. Daniels students are engaged, polite and really excited to learn. They make teaching fun.” In addition to teaching, in the 2011–2012 academic year, Dr. Beaver will work with Dr. Bauer to develop curriculum that combines the strengths of BIA’s two predecessor departments, the Department of Statistics and Operations Technology and the Department of Information Technology and Electronic Commerce, which merged in spring 2010. When he’s not teaching, Dr. Beaver is the chief analytic officer at Claremont Information Systems, a mortgage and real estate analytics firm.
Dr. Phil Beaver Professor-in-Residence, Department of Business Information and Analytics
Hometown:
Education
Santa Barbara, California Personal note:
Dr. Beaver was in the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the floor of his office. With the recent 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Dr. Beaver has given numerous talks to Rotary Clubs and other local organizations about his experience.
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PhD, Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, 1998 MS, National Resourcing Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 2005 MS, Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, 1991 BS, Civil Engineering, United States Military Academy, 1983 Past academic positions held
United States Military Academy Associate Professor, 1991–1994 and 1998–2001