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Sue McFarland Metzger 

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY

PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE


Practitioner teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of machine learning, Python, enterprise data management, business intelligence, and data visualization. Advocate for developing data cultures that ensure data literacy for all. Passionate about encouraging women to participate in tech at any level.



Email : sue.metzger@villanova.edu

Phone : 610.519.8064

Awards



Thomas J. Carmody, Jr. Faculty Award

2019

Recognizes a faculty member's efforts to promote the integrationof teaching, theory and practice.

The Wildcat Faculty Crossing Award

2017

Student nominated award given to a faculty member recognized for supporting under-represented and/or first-generation students through their Villanova journey.

The Meyer Inovation and Creative Excellence Award

2016

The ICE Institute annually award to recognize a faculty member who demonstrates the spirit of innvoation, creativity, and entrepreneurship that enhances the university.

Gerald A. Dougherty Endowed School of Business Faculty Award

2014

Student generated and faculty vetted award recognizing excellence in teaching for undergraduate business school faculty.

Experience



Villanova Unviersity

2004 - present

Teaching and research in the area of enterprise systems, programming, business intelligence, database management, business analytics, and discrete mathematics. Founder of VU Women in Tech. Developed a part-time degree program in Information Systems for the Office of Professional Studies.

SAP America

1995 - 2004

Director of Global Support. Managed teams and processes that provided large scale, global support to critical customer situations. Consulted on technical aspects of the software;

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

1990 - 1995

Migrated research technologies from mainframe environments to client/server technologies.  

Education



University of Pennsylvania

1992 - 1994     MS in Engineering

Bucknell Unviersity

1983 - 1987     BS in Mathematics

Publications



Kulkarni, S., Klassner, F., Geholt, V., Dougherty, E., Metzger, S., Wagner, W. Mobile App Development: A Cross-Discipline Team-Based Approach to Student and Faculty Learning, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2014.

Beck, R., Sloane, E., Metzger, S., Byrnes, J. Agile Governance for SOA-Based Military Systems of System, NDIA 10th Annual Systems Engineering Conference, San Diego, California, 2007.

Papalaskari, M.A., Hess, K., Kossman, D., Metzger, S., Phares, A., Styer, R., Titone, Way, T.,Weinstein, R., Wunderlich, F., PIVOTS: Service Learning at the Science, Theatre & Magic Boundary, ASEE-IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, California, 2006.

McFarland Metzger, Sue and Roehrs, Susanne. SAP R/3 Change and Transport Management. Sybex, 2000.

McFarland, Sue. Better Management of Change Request with Extended Transport Control, SAP Professional Journal, Volume 2 Issue 3.

McFarland, Sue. An Insider’s Guide to SAP Change and Transport System (CTS), SAP Professional Journal, Volume 1 Issue 1.