- born 9 May 1942
- 3 June 1964: graduated USMA and commissioned
as a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers
- 1964-1966: Platoon Leader, 101st Airborne
Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Vietnam
- 1966-1967: Company Commander, 307th Engineer
Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- 1969-1970: Operations Officer, 39th Engineer
Battalion, Vietnam
- 1971-1974: Olmsted Scholar, Universities
of Madrid, Spain and Arkansas
- 1975-1976: Instructor, Department of Mathematics,
USMA
- 1976-1985: Permanent Associate Professor
of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, USMA
- Jul 1985-Jul 1988: Deputy Head of the Mathematics
Department, USMA
- Jul 1988-present: Head of Mathematics Department,
USMA
Publications:
Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, A First Course in
Differential Equations for Engineers and
Scientists, A Modeling Approach, Addison
Wesley Publishing Company, 1989.
Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, A First Course in
Mathematical Modeling, Brooks and Cole Pub-
lishing Company, 1984.
Giordano, Frank, "A Heuristic for Constructing Surrogate
Constraints for the Linear Zero-One Integer
Pro-
gramming Problem," Naval Postgraduate School
Tech-
nical Report NPS 55-82-009, February 1982.
Giordano, Frank; Leja, Stanley, "Competitive Hunter
Models," UMAP Module No. 628, January 1983.
Giordano, Frank; Pollin, Jack, "Developing an Under-
graduate Mathematical Modeling Course," Inter-
national Journal of Mathematical Education
in
Science and Technology, December 1982.
Giordano, Frank; Wells, Michael; Wilde, Carroll,
"Dimensional Analysis," Tools for Teaching,
1988.
Giordano, Frank; Wells, Michael; Wilde, Carroll,
"Dimensional Analysis," UMAP Journal, Volume
2,
No. 3, 1981.
Giordano, Frank; Wells, Michael; Wilde, Carroll,
"Dimensional Analysis," UMAP Module No. 526,
1981.
Giordano, Frank; Wilde, Carroll, "Khacian's Algor-
ithm," UMAP Journal, Volume 1, No. 3, 1980
Giordano, Frank, Manual De Capacidad, Ministerio de
Obras Publicas, Madrid, Spain, 1974.
Giordano, Frank; Fox, William; Maddox, Steve; Weir,
Maurice, Mathematical Modeling with Minitab,
Brooks and Cole Publishing Company, 1985.
Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, "Mathematical Model-
ing in the Undergraduate Curriculum," Mathematical
Modeling and its Applications, 1985.
Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, "Mathematical Model-
ing in the Undergraduate Curriculum," Proceedings
of the Fifth Conference of the Association
of
Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 1986.
Giordano, Frank; Fox, William; Maddox, Steve; Weir,
Maurice, "Mathematical Modeling with Minitab,"
Minitab Teaching Packet, Minitab Corporation,
1986.
Giordano, Frank; Cameron, David; Weir, Maurice, "Modeling
Using the Derivative: Numerical and Analytic
Solutions," UMAP Module No. 625, 1982.
Giordano, Frank; Fox, William; Maddox, Steve; Weir,
Maurice, "Teaching Linear Programming with
Minitab," CoED Journal, Computers in Education
Division of ASEE, 1986.
Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, Teaching the First Course in
Mathematical Modeling, Brooks and Cole Publishing
Comp-
any, 1985.
Giordano, Frank; Garren, Mary; Garren, Lloyd, "The Garren
Gastric Bubble," Endoscopy Review, Volume
1, No. 2,
September 1984.
Giordano, Frank, "The Use of Dimensional Analysis in Math-
ematical Modeling," UMAP Journal, Volume 7,
No. 2,
1986.
Giordano, Frank; Jaye, Michael; Weir, Maurice, "The Use of
Dimensional Analysis in Mathematical Modeling,"
UMAP
Module No. 632, 1982.
Giordano, Frank; Weir, Maurice, "The Use of UMAP Modules in
a Modeling Course," UMAP Journal, Volume 6,
No. 6,
1985.
Giordano, Frank, "The Strength of Surrogate Constraints for
Linear Zero-One Integer Programming Problem,"
Naval
Postgraduate School Technical Report NPS 55-82-008,
February 1982.