Jonathan Engelsma, PhD., is a professor of Computer Science in the College of Computing. He serves as the Graduate Program Director for Software Engineering and is the Founding Director of the Applied Computing Institute.  He teaches courses in distributed systems, mobile computing and web development and his research focuses on mobile computing and web and distributed systems.  Engelsma is a GVSU graduate who enjoyed a career in the private sector before coming to GVSU to teach in 2009.