Jeffrey Scot Ransbottom

Associated Student (2002-2004)
Integrated Research and Education in Advanced Networking
Virginia Tech

Biographical Sketch

Scot Ransbottom teaches electrical and computer engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech in May 2004. His dissertation was on "Mobile Wireless System Interworking with 3G and Packet Aggregation for Wireless LAN" (available online). His advisor was Dr. Nathaniel J. Davis, IV.

Scot received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Duke University in May 1997 and his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University (OU) in May 1987. Scot is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honorary societies.

Scot is a career army officer with more than 13 years of military service. Scot has held several communications and information systems related positions. During the Persian Gulf war, Scot designed, planned, implemented, and managed tactical voice and data communications switching and transmission systems in Southwest Asia. He later commanded two tactical signal communications companies in Germany. Subsequent to his tactical experience, Scot taught Computer Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1997-2000.

Selected Publications

Smith, Todd L. and Scot Ransbottom, 'Digital Video in Education", book chapter published in textbook titled Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends, and Opportunities, 2000.

Hamilton, John A., Jeffrey Ransbottom, and Noël J. Davis,"An Integrated Approach to Network Simulation", in the proceedings of Advanced Technology Simulation Conference, Military, Government, and Aerospace Simulation, San Diego, CA, April 11-15, 1999.

Davis, Noël, Scot Ransbottom, and John A. Hamilton,"Teaching Computer Networking Through Modeling," in the proceedings of Ada Software Engineering Education and Training Conference, Monterey, CA, July 27-30, 1998.

Ransbottom, Jeffrey S, "DU-Net: An Implementation of User Level Communication in Digital UNIX", Master’s Thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1997.

Contact Information


Last updated: May 4, 2004
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