Faculty and Staff

Office: Knoy 371 
Phone: 765.494.1100 
Fax: 765.496.2700 
Email: suttonmj@purdue.edu 
 

• 1998  Ph.D. - Industrial Technology Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 1986  M.S. - Industrial Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 1983  B.S.I.Ed. - Industrial Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Teaching/Research Interests

• Technology teacher education
• Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC)
• Production cost analysis
• Statistical methods in technology
• Adult education and distance learning strategies

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.  1998 – Present
• Air Transportation Management Officer, Headquarters Air Mobility Command Tanker Airlift Control Center, Scott Air Force Base, IL.  1993 – 1995
• Vehicle Maintenance and Operations Officer, 81^st Transportation Squadron, Royal Air Force Bentwaters, Suffolk, England. 1989 – 1993
• Adjunct Mathematics Instructor, City Colleges of Chicago – Europe, Royal Air Force Bentwaters, Suffolk, England.  1991
• Combat Plans and Mobility Officer, 3^rd Mobile Aerial Port Squadron, Pope Air Force Base, NC.  1988 – 1989
• Mathematics Teacher, Benton Community School Corporation, Fowler, IN.  1986 – 1987

Professional Associations

• 2002-present - International Technology Educatoin Association
• 2002-present - Association for Career and Technical Education
• 2002-present - Council on Technoloy Teacher Education
• 2003-present - National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators
• 1995-present - National Association of Industrial Technology 
• 1999-present - American Society for Engineering Education, 
• 1993-present - National Defense Transportation Association
• 2000-present - Epsilon Pi Tau International Honorary Society for Technology

Scholarly Activities

    Journal Articles

• Sickler, N.C., Elliott, S.J., & Sutton, M.J. (in review). An evaluation of fingerprint quality across an elderly population vis-à-vis 18-25 year olds. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
• Sutton, M.J., & Dunlap, D.D. (in review). Media chromaticity and incident wavelength effects on bar code symbol contrast: AIDC implications for manufacturing education. Journal of Engineering Technology.
• Tracey, M., Fite, R.W., & Sutton, M.J. (2004). An explanatory model and measurement instrument: To guide supply chain management research and applications. Mid-American Journal of Business, 19 (2), 53-70.
• Louks, R., Elliott, S.J., & Sutton, M.J. (2003). Command and control voice recognition for automotive telematics. Ford Technical Journal, 6 (5), 9 msp.
• Sutton, M.J. (2003). Problem representation, understanding, and learning transfer: Implications for technology education research. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 40 (4), 47-63.
• Sutton, M.J. (2002). Classifying color bar codes to predict scanning success. Journal of Industrial Technology, 18 (3).  Available: http://nait.org/jit/Articles/msutton051502.pdf
• Sutton, M. J. (1997). The role of electronic data interchange in the transportation industry: Part 2. Defense Transportation Journal, 53 (5), 20-22.
• Sutton, M. J. (1997). The role of electronic data interchange in the transportation industry: Part 1. Defense Transportation Journal, 53 (3), 10-12.

     Conference Proceedings

• Elliott, S.J., & Sutton, M.J. (2002). Graduate course development in biometrics. Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE/SEFI/TUB Colloquium, Berlin, Germany.
• Elliott, S.J., & Sutton, M.J. (2001). Dynamic signature verification for electronic document management. Selected Papers of the National Association of Industrial Technology Annual Conference, Dearborn, MI.
• Latif, N., & Sutton, M.J. (2001).  Curriculum improvement through industrial technology alumni survey. Selected Papers of the National Association of Industrial Technology Annual Conference, Dearborn, MI.
• Sutton, M.J., & Elliott, S.J. (2000). Verifying bar code print quality: A proposed method for classifying colored bar code symbols. Selected Papers of the National Association of Industrial Technology Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Newton, K.A., Sutton, M.J., & Dunlap, D.D. (2000). Instructional delivery rationale for an on and off-campus graduate education program using distance education technology. American Society for Engineering Education National Conference, St. Louis, MO.
• Sutton, M.J. (1999). The effect of incident wavelength on bar code symbol contrast.  AutoIDÍ99 Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Summit, NJ.

     Practitioner Journals

• Sutton, M.J. (2000, January). Decoding a bar code with confidence - PSC or SC: Which contrast measure should you use? ID Systems [online serial].  Available: http://www.idsystems.com/reader/2000_01/bar0100/index.htm

Awards and Honors

• 2003 - School of Technology nominee for Purdue University Teaching for Tomorrow Award
• 2000 - Department of Industrial Technology Outstanding Non-Tenured Faculty Award
• 1998 - Memorial Medal for Literary Merit by the National Defense Transportation Assn.