David Garvin Moursund is an American mathematician, computer scientist and educator.
Education
Moursund attended Condon Elementary School, Roosevelt Junior High School, University of Oregon High School, and Eugene High School in Eugene, Oregon, graduating in 1954. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics. Minor in Physics) at the University of Oregon in 1958, and completed a Master of Surgery (Mathematics) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960.
Moursund completed his doctorate in Mathematics, specializing in numerical analysis, (January, 1963) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Career
Since 2005 he has been a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education at the University of Oregon. He has written and taught extensively in the areas of computers, mathematics, and brain science in education. Moursund worked as an Instructor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, between January and June, 1963, and then was an Assistant Professor, and later Associate Professor (1966-1967), in the Department of Mathematics and College of Engineering (Computer Center) at Michigan State University.
He then moved to the University of Oregon as an Associate Professor, first in the Department of Mathematics and later in the Department of Computer Science until 1976, where he was head of the department.
From 1976 until 2005 he held the position of full professor, first in Computer and Information Science, and later in the Department of Education. During his career Moursund has been major or co-major supervising professor of six doctoral students in mathematics and 76 doctoral students in education.
In 1971 Moursund and Keith Acheson, a faculty member in the University of Oregon"s College of Education, established a College of Education doctoral program in the field of Computers in Education, the first such program in the United States.