About

Welcome! My name is Darren E. Mason and I am a professor and department chair in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Albion College. I also direct the Actuarial Science Program at Albion and teach for the Dual Degree Program in Engineering. I earned my BS degree in mathematics (1991) and my Ph.D. in engineering mechanics (1996) from the University of Minnesota. On my professional journey to Albion College I made pit-stops at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Nonlinear Analysis for my post-doc (1996-98) and the Materials Science & Mechanics department at Michigan State University (1998-2001) as an assistant professor. As part of my relationship with MSU I have had the very good fortune to teach engineering and statistics in Volgograd, Russia as part of their study abroad program, be a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf, Germany, as well as teaching actuarial science classes from 2016-2019 at Guangzhou Higher University in Guangzhou, China!

For fun I love to travel, hike, and cook. And I love the Grateful Dead. A lot.