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Professor Kenneth L. Chapman B.S, M.A.

Mathematics, Tarpon Springs

Email: Chapman.Ken@spcollege.edu

Office Information:

Monday 11:00 - 12:30 Tarpon Springs   LY113
Tuesday 9:30 - 10:45 Tarpon Springs   LY 113
3:30 - 4:30 Tarpon Springs   LY113
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30 Tarpon Springs   LY 113
Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 Tarpon Springs   LY 113
3:30 - 4:30 Tarpon Springs   LY113


Phone #: (727)-712-5823

Location: LY 113

Kenneth Chapman
 
 Courses Taught:
  There are no courses listed for this instructor.

 
  Biography:

Professor Chapman served as an Instructor, Assistant, and then Associate Professor in Mathematics and Statistics at Owens Technical College until 1986. He currently holds the position of Full Professor in Mathematics at Saint Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus, Tarpon Springs, Florida. He has consulted and worked in Applied Statistics since 1982 and as president of the KLC Group Inc. has spearheaded and directed projects throughout the United States, Germany, Austria, Poland, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, Australia, Columbia, Mexico, Venezuela, Portugal and Puerto Rico.
 
 A partial list of Prof. Chapman's clients includes:
   Beverage Canners International Corporation (USA - soft drink/juice bottlers),
·        Barbosa and Almeida S.A. (Portugal - glass containers/wine industry). 
·        Brunswick Container Inc. (USA - PET containers),
·        Toledo Pickling and Steel (USA - steel treatment),
·        Toledo Blank (USA - steel fabrication),
·        Owens/Brockway Glass Container, Inc. (USA - glass containers), 
·        Brockway Central Mold Shop (USA - mold manufacturing), 
·        Owens/Brockway Kimble, Inc. (USA - pharmaceutical glass products), 
·        Owens - Illinois de Venezuela (glass containers, closures),
·        Peldar S.A. (Colombia - flat glass/glass container),
·        Libbey Glass (USA - consumer glass),
·        Libbey Owens Ford (USA - automotive glass),
·        Owens Illinois Plastics and Closure Inc. (USA, Puerto Rico - injection and blow molding),
·        Delos M. Palmer & Associates (USA - dynamics research and development),
·        Ford Motor Company (USA - automotive sub-assemblies),
·        Unique Mould Makers Ltd. (Canada - injection mould manufacturing),
·        ACI (Australia - glass containers),
·        Vitro Envases S.A. (Mexico - glass and plastic products),
·        Comar Inc. (USA - medical devices)
·        City of Dunedin – Water Division ( SFWMD well field analysis)
 
Prof. Chapman's responsibilities included all aspects of applied statistics and quality assurance as well as performing quality audits, developing and installing Statisical Process Control/Statistical Quality Control management and acceptance sampling plans. It is this wealth of teaching, practical, and professional experience that Prof. Chapman brings to the student's classroom experience.
 
On March 4, 2002 a close family friend of Prof. Chapman's was slain in Afghanistan.  Marc Anderson was a middle school mathematics teacher before joining the Army and in fact he named as the benefactor of his US Army life insurance policy a scholarship trust set up to assist one of his middle school students to attend her University of choice. 
 
In the spirit of Marc's gift and in memory of this friend Prof. Chapman, working through the St. Petersburg College Foundation and with the Anderson family established the Specialist Marc A. Anderson, United States Army Ranger Fallen Soldier Memorial Scholarship award.   The first scholarship was awarded in October, 2002.  As of this writing eight  scholarships have been awarded each year since then in honor of Marc and to help deserving talented students at St. Petersburg College achieve their dreams of a better life through academic achievement.