| Dr.
Loftus graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
from Rice University. While at Rice, he received the Brown Engineering Scholarship
in 1981 and the Max Roy Scholarship in 1983. He graduated as a member of
the Chemical Honor Society, Phi Lambda Epsilon, and the Science and Engineering
Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi.
As a chemical engineer, Dr. Loftus had a strong interest in the computer
education of chemical engineering students. He worked with the then Head
of the Chemical Engineering Department, Dr. Sam Davis, and a fellow student,
Brian Harkins, to move the chemical engineering programming curriculum
from punch cards to the 1980s state-of-the-art, shared terminal system.
Due to the rapid advances in computer technologies, the programming languages
of APL and Fortran used by the chemical engineers in those days are now
hardly in use at all.
At graduation, Dr. Loftus decided to join Setpoint (now part of AspenTech),
a mid-sized firm (<100 engineers), where he specialized in computer
process control. After working as an engineer for two years, he decided
to attend medical school.
Dr. Loftus currently uses his engineering and computer knowledge only
on projects around the house and on this web site which he created.
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