Tim Frank
Residential Faculty
Department: Technology and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information
Campus: Main
Office Number: T1-126
Email: tim.frank@gccaz.edu
Phone number: 623-845-3207
Office Hours:
Monday & Wednesday, 5 - 6 p.m.
Tuesday, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Other times are available by appointment
Bio
Biography
Dr. Tim Frank grew up on the west side of Phoenix. After high school, he attended Baylor University, where he was a dual major in electrical engineering and physics. He graduated in 1990 with a B.S. degree, and then went on to attend the California Institute of Technology, and earned a Master's of Science degree in applied physics in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 1998, with his area of research being computing with artificial neural networks. While finishing up his Ph.D. dissertation, he taught computer programming and circuit analysis courses for 2½ years within the electrical engineering department at Purdue University's Indianapolis campus. Tim returned to the Phoenix area in the fall of 1999. He taught computer programming, physics, and math courses for Western International University and Estrella Mountain Community College, before becoming the engineering instructor at South Mountain Community College in the fall of 2000. Tim worked at SMCC until May 2016, when he transferred to GCC. Tim has been married since 1990 to Dr. Karen Connally-Frank, who is a physician of internal medicine, and they have three daughters.