School of Engineering

Dr. Behnam Shadravan

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 233

Phone:

(814) 898 6664

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

bus17@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Behnam Shadravan received his B.S (1993), and M.S. (1996) from Sharif University of Technology, and the Ph.D. (2010) from University of Ottawa all in civil engineering. He joined the Penn State Behrend in fall 2012.

Dr. Shadravan's job background includes teaching, research, and engineering in interdisciplinary projects. He worked part time as a research engineer (1993-1994) at the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. Then, he worked as a researcher and dam engineer, and later deputy of the large Karkheh Dam with about 2 miles length and 400 ft height and hydropower of 400 MW(south east Iran) and continued as an expert and researcher in Mahab Ghodss Consulting Engineers (1994-1998). Later he established a new research engineering company, Sadr Sazeh. Dr. Shadravan is involved in engineering aspects and technical documentation of three large dam and hydropower construction projects -Karkheh, Karun3 and Masjed Soleiman (southeast Iran)- and some other great projects.

Dr. Shadravan's Ph.D. project was in experimental and analytical research on the bond behaviour of Fiber Reinforced Polymers on concrete an masonry material. The project was nominated for the best research medal at the University of Ottawa in 2010. He was a visiting research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh on retrofitting methods using FRP (2010-2012). He taught as a lecturer of dam engineering (2001-2002) at Water and Power Technology University in Iran, mechanics of materials, and design of steel structures (2006-2010) at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was an associate professor of civil engineering at CCAC in Pittsburgh (2010-2012) where he taught various courses in civil and general engineering. Since 2004 to 2010, he was a research assistant and teaching assistant for several courses.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013

Statics

Strength of Materials

Engineering Materials Laboratory

Research

Research interests are in the following areas:

Sustainable engineering

Sustainable materials
Wind and water power plants
Development engineering
Retrofitting

Material Properties

Composites, CFRP, GFRP, AFRP
Metal, concrete, masonry, polymer
Nondestructive testing and equipment

Publications

Publications and presentations

B. Shadravan, Surface bond characteristics of FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2012.

B. Shadravan, Bond-slip model for surface bonded FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2012.

B. Shadravan, Comparison of the Suggested model with previous experimental data and analytical models bond characteristics of FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2012.

B. Shadravan, Study of the art on bond behavior of surface bonded FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2011.

B. Shadravan and M. Saatcioglu, Testing method for direct shear surface bonds characteristics of FRP sheets On Concrete and Masonry Substrates, prepared for CSCE Journal, 2011.

B. Shadravan, M. Saatcioglu, The effect of cyclic loading on performance of surface bonded FRP sheets on concrete, 9th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforcement for Concrete Structures, Sydney, Australia, July 2009.

B. Shadravan, Bond Behavior of Surface-Bonded FRP Sheets for Seismic Retrofitting, CSRN Graduate Student Conference, McGill University, Montreal, September 2009.

B. Shadravan, M. Saatcioglu, S. Foo, An Investigation on the Bond Length of FRP Sheets on Concrete Substrate, 8th Int. Symposium on Fiber Reinforcement for Concrete Structures, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, 2007.

A.A Mirghasemi, M. Pakzad, and B. Shadravan, The world’s largest cutoff wall at Karkheh dam, Hydropower and Dams Journal, Issue 2, pp. 90-94, 2005.

B. Shadravan,Construction Of Karkheh Dam Cutoff Wall, Dams and Reservoir Journal, The journal of the British Dam Society, pp. 9-15 , UK, November 2006.

B. Shadravan, A.A Mirghasemi and M. Pakzad, Karkheh dam Cutoff wall Analysis and design, ASCE, Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, New York, NY, USA, 2004.

B Shadravan , M. Pakzad and N. Tarkeshduz, Cost and Advantage Evaluation of Karkheh Dam Foundation Water-tightening System, Proceedings of 56th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Manitoba, Canada, 2003.

B Shadravan, An Overview to Small Hydropower Programming in Developing Countries, Proceedings of The First National Hydro Power Conference, 6 pp., Tehran, Iran, 2003.

B. Shadravan, Bond Behviour of FRP Sheets on Concrete and Masonry, University of Ottawa, November 2008.

B. Shadravan, Dams And Heritage (a) Dams Impact, (b) Dams as Heritage, Seminar at University of Ottawa, 2008.

B. Shadravan, Plastic concrete in Karkheh Dam, Hydro Quebec, Montreal, August 2005

B. Shadravan, M. Pakzad and A.A. Mirghasemi, The Analysis and Design Criteria of the Karkheh Dam Cutoff wall, IRCOLD Workshop on Karkheh Dam Cutoff Wall, 12 pp., Tehran, Iran, October 2001..

B. Shadravan, Methods of Cutoff Wall Construction, Top paper of Supervisor Engineers Seminar on Mahab Ghodss Consulting Engineers Company, Tehran, 1997.

B. Shadravan, A. H. Azadmanesh, Final Report of Karkheh Dam Cutoff Wall, Mahab Ghodss Consulting Eng. Co., 209 pp., Fall 2002, Tehran, Iran.

SadrSazeh Co Research Group, Masjed Soleiman Dam and Hydropower Plant Technical Documentation Master Plan, 300 pp., SadrSazeh Koosha Co., Tehran, Iran, 2001..

SadrSazeh Co Research Group, Masjed Soleiman Dam and Hydropower Plant Construction Problems Systematic Classification Research Report , 100 pp., SadrSazeh Koosha Co. , 400 pp., 2001.

Service

Professional Membership

Licensed Professional Engineer, Ontario (2009-Current)
American Society for Civil Engineering (2008-Current)
American concrete Institute (2008-Current)
EERI (earthquake engineering research institute) (2010-Current)
Diversity Faculty Committee at CCAC (2010-2012)
Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (Since 2005)
Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineering (Since 2005)
Canadian Dam Association (Since 2005)
Canadian Geotechnical Society, The Ottawa geotechnical Group ( Since 2005)
Executive committee and member in good standing for CUPE2626 ( 2006-2010)
Licensed Professional Engineer, Tehran (1997-2004)
Board of directors in Omran (Civil Engineering student Journal) at Sharif University
Active on establishing student chapter for Engineers Without Borders at Behrend

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Bobbie Peters

Administrative Support Assistant

Office Location:

Burke 242

Phone:

(814) 898 6025

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

rcp12@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Roberta Peters (Bobbie) is an administrative support assistant in the School of Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She graduated from Academy High School and continued her education at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting in 1992. After working for the Northwestern School District for eleven years, Bobbie joined the School of Engineering in June 2012.

Bobbie’s job responsibilities include:

Scheduling officer for Engineering classes and rooms
Academic Advising Coordinator
Support for Faculty and Students

Bobbie is also the secretary for the School of Engineering Recruiting and Retention Committee.

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Dr. Nancy Study

Lecturer in Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 223

Phone:

(814) 898 6563

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

nes14@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Nancy E. Study is a lecturer in the School of Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She earned a B.S. in Industrial Technology from Missouri State University (1993), and an M.S. in Industrial Technology (1995) and the Ph.D. in Educational Technology (2001), both from Purdue University. Her graduate research in computer graphics focused on the haptic and visualization abilities of freshman engineering and technology students. She joined the Penn State Behrend faculty in August 2012.

In 2010, Dr. Study was presented the Oppenheimer award for the highest level of professionalism in presentation at the Engineering Design Graphics Division Midyear Meeting for her paper “Long-Term Impact of Improving Visualization Abilities of Minority Engineering and Technology Students: Preliminary Results.” She was also a coauthor of “Enhancing Visualization Skills-Improving Options aNd Success (EnViSIONS)” in The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 1-17, which won the Editor’s Award in 2009.

She is an active member of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE and is also a member of the Engineering and Technology Education Division of ACTE.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2012

EG T 120 Solid Modeling I

EG T 060 3D Visualization and Spatial Development

Research

Dr. Study's research is primarily in finding methods of improving the visualization abilities of engineering and technology students with an emphasis on the impact of students’ haptic tendencies on the ability to visualize 2D and 3D objects.

NSF-0714197 – EnViSIONS: Enhancing Visualization Skills--Improving Options aNd Success, $199,650, 2007-2009; major collaborator and dissemination site.

Publications

Books

Study, N. E., & Simmers, C. L., (2013). Capstone Projects in Engineering Design (working title). Columbus, OH. McGraw-Hill.

Bertoline, G. R., Wiebe, E. N., Hartman, N. W., Ross, W. A., Study, N. E., & Simmers, C. L. (2013). Engineering Design. Columbus, OH. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-8694191

Harms, H. R., & Janosz, D. A. (2012). Pre-Engineering. Columbus, OH. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-878336-4 (Contributing author)

Refereed Journal Publications

Study, N. E. (2011). Long-term impact of improving visualization abilities of minority engineering and technology students: preliminary results. The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 75 (2).

Veurink, N. L, Hamlin, A. J., Kampe, J. C. M., Sorby, S. A., Blasko, D. G., Holliday-Darr, K. A., Trich Kremer, J. D., Harris, K. S., Harris, L. V., Connolly, P. E., Sadowski, M. A., Brus, C. P., Boyle, L. N., Study, N. E., Knott, T. W. (2009). Enhancing Visualization Skills-Improving Options aNd Success (EnViSIONS). The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 73 (2) 1-17.

Study, N. E. (2006). Assessing and improving the below average visualization abilities of a group of minority engineering and technology students. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 12 (4) 363-374.

Study, N. E. (2003). Haptic abilities of freshman engineers as measured by the haptic visual discrimination test. The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 67 (2), 29-34.

Study, N. E. (2002). The effectiveness of using the successive perception test I to measure visual-haptic tendencies in engineering students. The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 66 (2), 17-26.

Birchman, J. A. & Study, N. E. (2001). Preparing class materials for the web using PDF format. The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 65 (3), 25-30.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

Study, N. E. (2012). An overview of tests of cognitive spatial ability. Procedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting. Galveston, TX.

Simmers, C. L., and Study, N. E. (2011) Project-based + hybrid learning = ready for postsecondary education. Presentation at ACTE 2011 Convention. St. Louis, MO.

Study, N. E. (2011). Long-term impact of improving visualization abilities of minority engineering and technology students. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Vancouver, BC.

Chin, R. A., and Study, N. E. (2010). Keys to publishing in peer reviewed journals. Poster Session at the 9th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education. Singapore.

Study, N. E. (2010). Long-term impact of improving visualization abilities of minority engineering and technology students: preliminary results. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting (132-137). Houghton, MI.

Chin, R. A., Holliday-Darr, K., and Study, N. E. (2010). Getting started publishing in the online EDGJ. Media Showcase Presentation at ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting. Houghton, MI.

Chin, R. A., and Study, N. E. (2010). Keys to publishing in peer reviewed journals. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Louisville, KY.

Study, N. E., and Chin, R. A. (2010). Manuscript publication aided by the Open Journal Systems: A case study. Proceedings of the ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference. Blacksburg, VA.

Study, N. E. (2009). Correlation of haptic abilities and improvement of visualization skills in a sample of minority engineering and technology students. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting (140-143). Erie, PA.

Study, N. E. (2009). The submission and reviewing process in the online Engineering Design Graphics Journal. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting (40-42).Erie, PA.

Study, N. E. (2009). EnViSIONS at Virginia State University. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting. Berkeley, CA.

Study, N. E. (2008). The haptic abilities of engineering and technology students with below average visualization abilities. Accepted for presentation at the 6th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education. Cape Town, South Africa.

Study, N. E. (2008). Testing the haptic abilities of a sample of minority engineering and technology students. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Pittsburg, PA.

Study, N. E. (2007). Testing the haptic abilities of minority engineering & technology students: Preliminary results. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting. VA Beach, VA.

Study, N. E. (2006). Using remediation to improve visualization abilities in minority engineering and technology students. Poster session presented at the 5th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Study, N. E. (2006). Using remediation to improve visualization abilities in minority engineering and technology students. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Chicago, IL.

Study, N. E. (2005). Improving visualization abilities in minority engineering and technology students: Preliminary results. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting (9-12). Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Study, N. E. (2005). Using LEGOs® to reinforce basic parametric modeling practices. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Portland, OR.

Study, N. E. (2004). Implementing a real world project into a senior level architectural drafting course. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting (44-49). Williamsburg, VA.

Study, N. E. (2004). Assessing visualization abilities in minority engineering students. Poster session presented at the ASEE 3rd International Colloquium on Engineering Education. Beijing, China.

Study, N. E. (2004). Assessing visualization abilities in minority engineering students. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Salt Lake City, UT.

Study, N. E. (2003). A comparison of test scores of minority vs. non-minority students on the Purdue spatial visualization test: Visualization of rotations. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting (182-188). Phoenix, AZ.

Study, N. E. (2002). The haptic visualization tendencies of freshman engineering students and their implication on testing and instruction. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting. Indianapolis, IN.

Birchman, J. A. & Study, N. E. (2001). Preparing class materials for the web using PDF format. Proceedings of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting (181-188). San Antonio, TX.

The Case Studies for Kids Project: The center for twenty-first century conceptual tools (TCCT). (2000). Poster session presenting Model Eliciting Activities to teachers. Purdue University.

Study, N. E. (1998). Parametric vs. non-parametric modeling. Presentation, 4-State Technology Conference. Pittsburg State University.

Study, N. E. (1998). 3D CAD in the classroom. Presentation, MVA/MITEA Summer Conference. Southwest MO State University.

Study, N. E. (1997). Visualization for CAD solid modeling. Presentation, 4-State Technology Conference, Pittsburg State University.

Expanding Your Horizons Conference. (1995-1997). Career and college planning workshops for junior high school girls. Southwest MO State University.

Service

Professional Memberships

ASEE – Engineering Design Graphics Division and K-12 Division

ACTE – Engineering and Technology Education Division

Epsilon Pi Tau

Phi Kappa Phi

Service Activities

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE): 2002-current, moderate conference sessions and review abstract and paper submissions for the Annual Conference and the EDGD Midyear Meeting

Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE: July 2012 – July 2013, Chair of the Division; July 2011 – July 2012, Vice-chair of the Division

Engineering Design Graphics Journal: 2006-2011, Associate Editor

National Science Foundation: 2009, NSF/ International Research Experience for Students (IRES) Program reviewer; 2007, NSF/Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase-I panelist

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Dr. Adam Hollinger

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 248

Phone:

(814) 898 6305

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

ash167@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Adam Hollinger is a Lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering department at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received a B.S. in Engineering Science (2006) from the Pennsylvania State University, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2009), and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (2012) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His recent Ph.D. work was centered on the design, manufacture, and characterization of thin, polymer-based fuel cells for portable power applications.

Dr. Hollinger joined the Penn State Behrend faculty in August 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at PSU Behrend, he taught part-time in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Technology at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois while completing his Ph.D.

Dr. Hollinger is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He served as a teaching assistant for three semesters at the University of Illinois and was named to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent each semester. He has received the Teacher Scholar Certificate (2011) as well as the Graduate Teacher Certificate (2010) from the University of Illinois’ Center for Teaching Excellence.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2012

Statics

Strength of Materials

Materials Testing Laboratory

Courses Previously Taught

Statics (TA)

Strength of Materials

Fluids and Heat Transfer (TA)

Materials Testing Laboratory (TA)

Research

Dr. Hollinger’s research focuses on energy conversion at the microscale. Most recently, he designed, manufactured, and characterized a stackable, all-polymer fuel cell for portable power applications. In prior work, he introduced a nanoporous separator to minimize fuel crossover in a microscale fuel cell. He has characterized various microfluidic fuel cells using different fuels, oxidants, catalysts, and media, and has demonstrated electrohydrodynamic-jet deposition of catalysts.

Publications

A.S. Hollinger, P.J.A. Kenis, “Manufacturing All-polymer Laminar Flow-based Fuel Cells”, submitted.
A.S. Hollinger, F.R. Brushett, L.J. Markoski, P.J.A. Kenis, “Scaling and Manufacturing of Laminar Flow-based Fuel Cells”, Proceedings of MicroTAS Conference, Groningen, Netherlands, 2010, 1748-1750.
A.S. Hollinger, R.J. Maloney, R.S. Jayashree, L.J. Markoski, P.J.A. Kenis, “Nanoporous Separator and Low Fuel Concentration to Minimize Crossover in Direct Methanol LFFCs”, Journal of Power Sources, 195 (2010) 3523-8.
F.R. Brushett, A.S. Hollinger, L.J. Markoski, P.J.A Kenis, “Microfluidic Fuel Cells as Microscale Power Sources and Analytical Platforms”, Proceedings of the ASME 2009 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Shanghai, China, 2009 (invited paper).

Service

Professional Membership

Tau Beta Pi

Electrochemical Society

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Reviewer for the following journals

Chemistry

Electrochimica Acta

Journal of Power Sources

Lab on a Chip

Additional Service

Presenter, University of Illinois Graduate Academy for College Teaching (2011, 2012)

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Dr. Alicyn Rhoades

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 213K

Phone:

(814) 898 6287

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

amh234@psu.edu

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Biography

Dr. Alicyn Rhoades received the Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering (2006) from The University of Southern Mississippi with a graduate minor program in Commercializing Technology. She received teh B.S. in Plastics Engineering Technology (2001) from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Prior to joining Penn State Behrend in August 2012, Dr. Rhoades was employed as Industrial Marketing Manager, Thermoplastic Urethanes, at Bayer MaterialScience LLC from 2011-2012 and as Innovation Manager from 2009-2011. From 2007-2009 she was Research Commercialization Project Manager at The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center.

Affiliations and Other High Points

W.O.M.E.N. in America Mentee (Founded by Fortune 500 Women, 2010-2013)
Society of Plastics Engineers – Professional Member
American Chemical Society – Professional Member
American Association for the Advancement of Science – Professional Member
Industrial Research Institute – Bayer delegate 2010 - 2012
NCAA Div III Varsity Softball, Penn State Behrend 1997-2001

Awards

NSF IGERT Fellow, 2004-2006
Fed-Ex Business Plan Competition – Semifinalist Team – 2006
USM Research Stipend Competition for Women – Award 2006
Invent Your Future – Entrepreneurial Contest 1st Place - 2005
NSF GK12 fellow, 2003-2004
Recipient of Ford Travel Grant – ACS, Anaheim CA - 2004
Society of Cosmetic Chemistry – Third Place Student Poster - 2003
Society of Plastics Engineers (NW PA) Student of the Year - 2001
Society of Plastics Engineers (NW PA) Student of the Year – 2000

Teaching

Courses taught Spring 2013

On leave

Courses previously taught

Computer Applications for Plastics Engineering Technology

Advance Tooling and Rheology Lab

Publications

Invited Presentations

1. The University of Mississippi, Medicinal Chemistry Department. “Antimicrobial Peptides in Polymer Coatings Systems”. December 2004.

2. 18th EPSCoR National Conference 2005. “Student Entrepreneurial Experiences - NSF IGERT Program”. September, 2005. San Juan, Puerto Rico

3. Oklahoma EPSCoR Women in Science – Mentoring Women in the STEM Majors. “Action Action Action, the Critical Role of Action in Your Success.” October, 2005. Oklahoma City, OK

4. The 4th Annual INSPIRE Conference. “Action Action Action, the Critical Role of Action in Your Success.” September 2006. Hattiesburg, MS

5. BASF Central Physics Research, “Impact of waterborne dispersants on biocide efficacy”, , February 12, 2007. Ludwigshafen Germany

6. Bayer MaterialScience Coatings Research, “Impact of waterborne dispersants on biocide efficacy”, , February 14, 2007. Leverkusen, Germany

7. The Committee on Services and Resources for Women, The University of Southern Mississippi, “The Impact of Project Action”, April 3, 2007. Hattiesburg, MS

8. Bayer MaterialScience “The NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Model” June, 2008.

9. Northwest PA Society of Plastics Engineers – “Opportunities for NanoMaterials in Polymer Molding Applications”, November 20, 2008. Erie, PA

10. Guest Lecturer, Chemistry. Penn State University, October 2009. University Park, PA

11. Sherwin Williams Technical Community Day, “Formulating Around Bacteria Tastebuds: The Impact of Coatings Components on the Survival of P. aeruginosa and Biocide Efficacy”, May 2010. Cleveland, OH

12. Biobased Chemicals East: Panelist for “The Majors Respond”. September 2010, Boston, MA

Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Chen, Huipeng; Lentz, Daniel M.; Rhoades, Alicyn M.; Pyles, Robert A.; Haider, Karl W.; Vanapalli, Siva A.; Nunley Ryan K.; Hedden, Ronald C. Surface infusion micropatterning of elastomeric substrates. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (2012), 12(1-4), 451-464.

2. Lentz, Daniel M.; Rhoades, Alicyn M.; Pyles, Robert A.; Haider, Karl W.; Angelone, Mark S.; Hedden, Ronald C. Combinatorial study of a gold nanoparticle infusion process in a polymer film. Journal of Nanoparticle Research (2011), 13(10), 4795-4808.

3. Rhoades, Alicyn., Wicks, Douglas A., Miriyala, Bruhaspathy, Williamson, John. Interactions of an antimicrobial peptide (Ac-RRWWRF-NH2) and surfactants: Towards antimicrobial peptide additives for coatings applications. Progress in Organic Coatings (2007), 58(2-3), 209-216

4. Wicks, Douglas A., Rhoades, Alicyn M., Williamson, John S., Miriyala, Bruhaspathy. Investigation of antimicrobial peptide salts: efficacy and solubility in surfactant solutions for latex systems. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (2006), 894(Combinatorial Methods and Informatics in Materials Science), 139-146.

5. Rhoades, Alicyn. and Wicks, D. “Impact of Latex Components on the Survival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa”, Journal of Coatings Technology: Research (2005). Vol. 2/8, 607-615.

Proceedings and Conference Presentations

1. Rhoades, A., Wicks, D., Williamson, J., Miriyala, B. “The Impact of Surfactant Structure on the Efficacy and Solubility of Antimicrobial Peptides”. Proceedings of the International Waterborne, High Solids, and Powder Coatings Symposium (2006). 33, 327-337.

2. Rhoades, A.; Wicks, Douglas A.; Williamson, John; Miriyala, Bruhaspathy. “Oligopeptides as antimicrobial agents in aqueous polymer systems.” Abstracts of Papers, 230th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2005 (2005) (publication and presentation)

3. Rhoades, A.; Hathorne, Adam P.; Wicks, Douglas A. “The impact of surfactant structure and morphology on biocide efficacy.” Abstracts of Papers, 230th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2005 (2005) (publication and presentation)

4. Rhoades, A.; Hathorne, A.; Alam, A.; Elasri, M.; Wicks, D. “High Throughput Fluorescence-Based Investigation of the Impact of Latex Components on the Efficacy of Biocides.” Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (2004). 90, 807-808. (presentation)

5. Rhoades, A.; Elasri, M.; Wicks, D. “Fluorescence-Based Study of Bacteria Survival in Water-Based Latex.” Proceedings of the International Waterborne, High-Solids, and Powder Coatings Symposium (2004). 31, 237-249. (presentation)

6. Rhoades, A.; Elasri, M.; Wicks, D. “Fluorescence-Based Study of Bacteria Survival in the Presence of Latex Components.” Southern Society for Coatings Technology Annual Meeting. Jacksonville, FL. April 2004. (presentation)

7. Rhoades, A. and Wicks, D. “Fluorescence-Based Study of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Bacterium Survival in Solutions of Water-Based Latex Components.” National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Combinatorial Methods Center Meeting 4-Formulation, Gaithersburg, MD. October 2003. (poster presentation)

8. Rhoades, A.; Wicks, D. “Fluorescence-Based Evaluation of Additive Effects on Latex Spoilage.” Gordon Research Conference on Combinatorial and High Throughput Materials Science, Buellton, CA. January 2004. (poster presentation)

9. Rhoades, A. and Wicks, D.; “Fluorescence-Based Study of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Bacterium Survival in Solutions of Water-Based Latex Components.” Polymers for Advanced Technologies Annual Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. September 2003. (poster presentation)

10. Rhoades, A.; Wicks, D. “Antimicrobial Peptides as Preservatives in Water-Based Emulsions – A Combinatorial Approach.” Annual Scientific Seminar: Society of Cosmetic Chemists. Washington, D.C. May 2003. (poster presentation)

11. Haney, A.; McConaughy, S. “Using Crosslinked Polyethylene to Stabilize Metal Injection Molding Feedstock.” Annual Technical Conference – Society of Plastics Engineers (2001). 59(3), 3288-3291. (presentation)

12. Haney, A.; Miller, K. “Developing a System to Activate a Post-Molding Blowing Agent in the Application Field.” .” Annual Technical Conference – Society of Plastics Engineers (2001). 59(3), 3285-3287. (presentation)

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Kurt D. Rogers

Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 165

Phone:

(814) 898 6688

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

kdr16@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Kurt D. Rogers is a Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering and joined Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, in Fall 2012. Kurt obtained his Master’s (2004) and Bachelor’s (2001) degree in Electrical Engineering from Binghamton University. In addition, Kurt holds an A.S. in Engineering Science degree (1999) from Jefferson Community College. Kurt is in the early stages of completing his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Kurt brings nearly twelve years of combined industry and teaching experience to the ECE Dept. at Penn State Behrend. He spent the first six years of his career working in the areas of embedded system design, digital system design, and signal processing for IBM and Lockheed Martin. Kurt most recently spent five years working as a lecturer in the ECE Department at Binghamton University (BU).

Teaching

Courses for Fall-2012

Digital Design Lab

Electronic Circuit Design-I

Courses Previously Taught

Digital Logic Design and Lab

Digital System Design-I and Lab

Digital System Design-II

Junior Design Lab

Electrical Circuits

Capstone Sr. Design-I and II Coordinator and Lecturer

Teaching Assistant

Signals and Systems-I (Continuous Time)

Signals and Systems-II (Discrete Time)

Research

Master’s Thesis: DSP Hardware Implementation and Acceleration

PhD and current research focus: Ultra Low Power (ULP) DSP Implementations

Other research/implementation interests:

Active Learning in the Engineering Classroom
AMSAT: Signal processing for the satellite, especially in relation to regulation of the pseudo capacitor / battery power supply system.

Service

Certifications or professional registrations

Intern Engineer (Professional Engineering Exam: Part 1)

Membership in professional organizations

Phi Theta Kappa

Service activities (within and outside of the institution)

Undergraduate Studies Committee (Binghamton University, Engineering School), Fall 2009 – Spring 2011

Undergraduate Studies Committee (Binghamton University, ECE Dept.), Fall 2009 – Spring 2011

Recent professional development activities

“Teach with Passion” workshop, Binghamton University, Fall 2011

PCB Design Workshop sponsored by BAE and presented by PCB design expert Rick Hartley from L-3 Communications, Spring 2011

“Incorporating community and global issues into active learning” workshop, Binghamton University, Spring 2010

“Applying student centered learning in engineering courses” workshop, Bucknell University, Summer 2009

Student centered and active learning strategies” workshop, Binghamton University, Spring 2007

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Dr. Nesreen Alsbou

Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 160

Phone:

(814) 898 6687

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

nxa15@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Nesreen Alsbou earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and her master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from Kansas State University. She earned her doctoral degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Oklahoma in 2012. Dr. Alsbou came to Penn State Behrend in August 2012. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), and IEEE Computer Society.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2012

CMPEN 351, Microprocessors

CMPEN 441, Operating Systems

Dr. Alsbou is interested in teaching classes in wireless communication, digital design, computer architecture, digital logic, state machine design, and VLSI. During her Ph.D. study she was a teaching assistant for the following classes:

Signals and Systems
Digital signals and Filtering
Digital Logic and State Machine Design
Computer organization and design
Digital Systems
Micro Compute Systems
Electrical Engineering Laboratory

Research

Dr. Alsbou latest research is in the area of wireless communications, particularly in MAC protocol where she developed a new MAC protocol called PR-ALOHA (R-ALOHA with Priority) to satisfy delay requirements for safety/emergency messages for inter vehicle communications. Furthermore, her research interest includes Intelligent Transportation Systems, wireless communications, Images and Digital Signal Processing, Logic Design, VHDL Design, VLSI Chip Design and Majority based Nano Circuits Design.

Publications

(1) Nesreen Alsbou, Sylvain Prigent and H. Refai, “Analysis of Priority R-ALOHA (PR-ALOHA) Protocol”, accepted for publication in Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications, 2012.

(2) Nesreen Alsbou and H. Refai, “Two Dimensional Markov Chain Model for Throughput Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF in non-ideal Channel with Capture Effects”, IEEE International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference ( IWCMC 2012).

(3) Nesreen Alsbou and H. Refai, “Analysis of PR-ALOHA Protocol for Inter vehicle Communications”, IEEE International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference ( IWCMC 2011).

(4) Nesreen Alsbou, D. Henry and H. Refai, “R-ALOHA with Priority (PR-ALOHA) in Non Ideal Channel with Capture Effects”, IEEE 17th International Conf. on Telecommunications - Networking and Internet Computing (ICT 2010 Networking and Internet Computing).

(5) Nesreen Alsbou and H. Refai, “Dynamic Slot Allocation Algorithm for R-ALOHA with Priority (PR-ALOHA)”, 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010).

(6) Nesreen Alsbou, Choo Yik Tang and H. Refai, “ Impact of Mobility on Priority R-ALOHA (PR-ALOHA) Protocol”, Work in progress.

(7) Imad Ali, Nesreen Alsbou, Terrance Herman, Salahuddin Ahmad. “A three-dimensional motion correction algorithm in cone-beam CT by marker tracking in the projections from a kV on-board imager: four dimensional cone-beam CT and tumor tracking implications”, The Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 12(2), 3407 (2011).

(8) Imad Ali, Salahuddin Ahmad, Terence Herman, Nesreen Alsbou, Dale-Michael Lovelock, Sergey Kriminski, and Howard Amols. “Correction of image artifacts from treatment couch in cone-beam CT from kV on-board imaging” The Journal of X-Ray Sciences and Technology (2011).

Service

Professional membership

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)

IEEE Computer Society

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Dr. Greg Dillon

Associate Director for Research and Technology Transfer; Associate Professor of Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 242D

Phone:

(814) 898 7169

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

gpd2@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Greg Dillon is Associate Director for Research and Technology Transfer and Associate Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend. He received the Ph.D. and B.S. [summa cum laude] in Materials Engineering in 1989 and 1986 respectively from the University of Limerick - Ireland. Dr. Dillon worked most recently at the Applied Research Lab at The Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA where he was Deputy Division Head of the Composite Materials Division since 2000. Prior to that he worked at Northrop Grumman in Bethpage NY; Lawrie Technology, Inc in Girard, PA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Dillon was selected as Associate Director for Research and Technology Transfer in December 2012 and brings years of research activity, including patents, in the composites engineering area. He is author of over 30 publications, has co-authored two books, and has five patents credited to him.

Dr. Dillon is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) and the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Teaching

Courses previously taught

Injection Molding

Extrusion

Blow Molding

Thermoforming

Compression molding

Wet composite lay-up

Crystal Structures of materials

Binary Phase equilibrium Diagrams

Surface Properties of Material

Composites Manufacturing

Research

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Over 25 years of experience in material and process research and development with a focus on process modeling, characterization, manufacturing technology optimization and industrial transition.

Original focus on polymer process technology expanded over two decades to encompass advanced composites and hybrid systems.
Career long focus on development and rapid transition of innovative, cost-effective processing technology.
Focused several years of research on polymers for medical devices.
Led a project on the development of material systems and architectures for personnel protective applications.
Developed specialty reaction injection molding technology for automotive drivetrain applications, flexible shafts for aerospace, hybrid/metallic systems for acoustic optimization and miniaturized processes for medical devices.
Co-led development of Digital Image Correlation technology for strain mapping in composites and filled polymer adhesives.

Conceived and directed basic and applied technology development programs typically valued between $1M to $2M per year.

Research portfolio spanned basic research in material and process physics all the way through rapid implementation of complex, cost effective manufacturing systems
Developed and transitioned to the US military fleet several cost saving manufacturing technologies ranging across air, ground, surface and underwater platforms.
Strong track record of collaborative technology development with the industrial base, including medical products, automotive, aerospace, material development, wind energy, metal processing, polymer technology, personnel protective equipment, software development, adhesive systems, none destructive testing and mining industries.

Career has encompassed a unique range of appointments spanning small and large businesses, basic and applied research, academic instruction as well as rapid industrial product development.

Assistant director of Composites and Polymer Processing Program at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (Later the Composites Manufacturing Program)
Principal Engineer at Northrop Grumman Advanced Technology Development
Senior Development Engineer at a start-up company focused on innovative technology development and implementation
Currently Deputy Head of Composite Materials Division of Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory
Broad experience in undergraduate and graduate instruction
Over 30 referred publications, including two book chapters in a manufacturing text as well as five US patents

Strong track record in the assembly of multi-disciplinary research teams focused on rapid technology development and transfer

Currently the Principal Investigator on a program focused on design of polymeric materials for the prevention of Traumatic Brain Injury. Team addresses Finite Element Analysis, multi length scale modeling, material formulation, test and characterization.
Led a program focused development of advanced test techniques to facilitate rapid implementation of emerging materials. Team included experts in materials science, computer programming, process design, chemical engineering and structural analysis.
Led several rapid technology development programs focused on cost reduction and performance enhancement for military systems. Teams included experts in material and process development, acoustic analysis, hydrodynamics, structural design and analysis, test and characterization, tooling design and fabrication, quality control. Programs typically achieved ‘paper to prototype’ development in 9 to 18 months
Led the materials and process development functions in a program focused on the commercialization of a patented Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)

Broadly skilled in material and process characterization techniques.

Comprehensive familiarity with ASTM, SACMA, and specialty mechanical test techniques for both polymers and advanced materials.
Applied and analyzed a wide-range of thermal and spectrographic techniques for numerous polymer and composite development and characterization programs. Techniques have included: DMA, DSC, TGA, TMA, FTIR, EDS, XRD, AFM, ATR-FTIR, and many others
Frequently apply polymer characterization techniques in optimization of process cycles for emerging materials including BMI’s, PETI’s, polyurethanes, polyureas, epoxies, vinyl esters, and a range of thermoplastics

Publications

Papers

Grujicic, M., Yavarim R., Snipes, J.S, Ramaswami, S., Runt, J., Tarter, J and G. Dillon “Molecularlevel computational investigation of shock-wave mitigation capability of polyuria”, Journal Material Science (2012) 47:8197–8215.
Castagna, A.M., Pangon, A., Choi, T., Dillon, G and J. Runt1, “The Role of Soft Segment Molecular Weight on Microphase Separation and Dynamics of Bulk Polymerized Polyureas”, Macromolecules, October 2012, pp 8438-8444.
Grujicic, M., Pandurangan, B., King, A.E., Runt, J., Tarter, J. and G Dillon “Multi-length scale modeling and analysis of microstructure evolution and mechanical properties in polyurea”, Journal of Material Science (2011) 46:1767–1779.
M Grujicic, M., He, T. Pandurangan, B., Runt, J., Tarter J., and G Dillon, “Development and parameterization of a time-invariant (equilibrium) material model for segmented elastomeric polyureas” Proc. IMechE Vol. 225 Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications.
Dreese, D. F., Dillon, G. P., Wess, D. B., Koudela, K. L., Rachau, C.L., Stiver, D.H. and A.I. Nadel, “Testing and Analysis of Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber (SBCF) Stiffened Panels Subjected to In5 Plane Shear Loading” SAMPE Fall Technical Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 11 – 14, 2010.
Dillon, G and D. Stiver, “Development of Enabling Automated Forming Technology for Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber (SBCF) Materials” 54th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland, May 18 – 21, 2009.
Collins, J.G., Dillon, G. and C.L. Muhlstein, “Strain Distribution and Rearrangement in a Cracked and Uncracked Composite Laminate” 54th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland, May 18 – 21, 2009.
Dillon, G., Tarter, J.F., Byrne, C., Rachau, C., Muhlstein, C. L. and J.G. Collins, “Strain Mapping for Performance and Failure Prediction in Composites Using Digital Image Correlation” SAMPE Fall Technical Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, September 8 – 11, 2008. (2nd Place Outstanding Paper)
Dillon, G and D. Stiver, “Forming Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber Composites into Complex Shapes,” 52nd International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland, June 3 – 7, 2007.
Dillon, G and G. Jacobsen, “Process and Performance Characterization of Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber Materials,” 52nd International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland, June 3 – 7, 2007.
Dillon, G and D. Stiver, “Application of Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber Materials to Rotorcraft Structures,” 51st International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, April 30 – May 4, 2006.
Dillon, G and D. Walczyk, “Comparison of Continuous Fiber and Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber (SBCF) Materials in Forming Processes,” 50th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, May 1-5, 2005.
Dillon, G. and M. Barsoum, “Characterization of Stretch Broken Carbon Fiber Materials for Automated Forming Processes,” 50th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, May 1-5, 2005.
VanDine, P., Hall J., Koudela, K and G. Dillon, “Manufacturing Technology Development for Composite Marine Impellers,” 50th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, May 1-5, 2005.
Dillon, G. and B. Mayrides, “Influence of Prepreg Microstructure on Structural Performance,” 35th International SAMPE Technical Conference, Dayton, Ohio September-October 2003.
Dillon, G. “Advanced Forming Processes for Composite Materials,” 35th International SAMPE Technical Conference, Dayton, Ohio September-October 2003.
Gutowski, T.G., Dillon, G., Chey S and H. Li, “Laminate Wrinkling Scaling Laws for Ideal Composites”, Composites Manufacturing, Vol 6, 1995 p 123.
Li, H., Dillon, G., Chey. S and T.G. Gutowski, “A Kinematic Approach for the Diaphragm Forming of Advanced Composites,” Proceedings of the 40th Annual SAMPE Symposium, 1995, p1595.
Dillon, G. and M. Buggy, “Damage Development During Flexural Fatigue of Carbon Fiber Reinforced PEEK,” Composites Vol.26, No.5 1995, p355.
Gutowski, T.G., Dillon, G., Chey S., and H. Li, “Kinematic Observations for the Forming of Advanced Thermoset Composites”, ASME WAM, Chicago, Illinois, November 1994
Gutowski, T.G., Hoult D., Dillon G., Neoh, E.T., Muter S., Kim E. and M. Tse, “Development of a Theoretical Cost Model for Advanced Composite Fabrication”, Composites Manufacturing Vol. 5, No. 4, 1994, p231.
Gutowski, T.G., Dillon G., Chey S., Li H., Chen J. and M. Strong,” Diaphragm Forming of Complex Shaped Advanced Composite Parts”, NSF Grantees Conference, January 1994, 6.
Gutowski, T. G., Dillon, G. & S. Chey., “Forming Continuous Fiber Composites into Complex Shapes” Proceedings of the 1993 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems Conference, University of North Carolina, January 6-8, 1993, Vol.1, p113.
Gutowski, T.G., Hoult D., Dillon G., Muter S., Kim E., Tse M. and E.T. Neoh, “Development of a Theoretical Cost Model for Advanced Composite Fabrication”, Fourth NASA/DoD Advanced Composites Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 7-11, 1993.
Gutowski, T.G., Dillon, G and S.Chey, “Forming Continuous Fiber Composites into Complex Shapes”, NSF Grantees Conference, January 1992.
Gutowski, T. G., and Dillon, G., “Elastic Deformation of Lubricated Aligned Carbon Fibers: Comparison of Theory and Experiments” Journal of Composite Materials Vol.26, No.16 1992, p2330.
Gutowski, T. G. and G. Dillon, “Overview of the Deformation Behavior of Aligned Fiber Composites During Processing,” ASME WAM, Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 1991.
Gutowski, T.G., Hoult D., Dillon and J. Gonzalex-Zugasti, “Differential Geometry and the Forming of Aligned Fibre Composites” Composites Manufacturing, Vol 2, No.3/4, 1991 p147
Gutowski, T. G., D. Hoult, G. Dillon, and J. Gonzalez-Zugasti, “Geometry Constraints on the Forming of Aligned Fiber Composites,” Flow Processes in Composite Materials, University of Limerick, Ireland, July 1991.
Gutowski, T. G., A. Tam, G. Dillon, and S. Stoller, “Forming Aligned Fiber Composites: Geometry and Experiments,” International Conference on Composite Materials, ICCM/8, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 1991.
Gutowski, T. G., A. Tam, G. Dillon, and S. Stoller, “Forming Aligned Fiber Composites into Complex Shapes,” CIRP Annals, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1991.
Buggy M. and G. Dillon, “Flexural Fatigue of Carbon Fiber Reinforced PEEK Laminates,” Composites. Vol.22, No.3, May 1991, p191.

Books

Gutowski, T.G and G. Dillon, “The Elastic Deformation of Fiber Bundles,” Chapter 4 of Advanced Composites Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Dillon G., Mallon, P and M. Monaghan “The Autoclave Processing of Composites,” Chapter 6 of Advanced Composites Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

PATENTS

‘Heart Assist Device with Expandable Impeller Pump’ 7,841,976 (2010)

‘Expandable Impeller Pump,’ U.S Patent Number 7,393,181 (2008)

‘System for Constructing a Laminate,’ U.S Patent Number 6,484,776 (2002)

‘Apparatus for Diaphragm Forming,’ U.S. Patent Number 5,648,109 (1997)

‘Method and System for Forming a Composite Product from a Thermoformable Material,’ U.S. Patent Number 5,578,158 (1996)

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Dr. Matthew White

Lecturer in Game Development

Office Location:

Burke 235A

Phone:

(814) 898 6144

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

mmw22@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Matthew White received a B.A. and B.Ed. from Cape Breton University in 2006 and 2007 respectively. He then completed a M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton in 2008. His recent Ph.D. work was completed at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and dealt with how video game players assimilate new information and play skills.

Dr. White joined Penn State Behrend in August 2012. Prior to working with us, he studied Usability and User Experience at the University of Prince Edward Island, and was a professional Game Designer for an independent development studio called Snow Day Games.

A member of the Canadian Game Studies Association, Digital Games Research Association, and International Game Developer's Association, Dr. White's interdisciplinary work involves creating and playing games, as well as studying them and their larger effects and significance.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2012

GAME 201 - Introduction to Game Design

GAME 301 - Advanced Game Design

Courses for Spring 2013

GAME 202 - Introduction to Game Programming

GAME 401 - Game Development Project

Research

Research Interests

Digital Game Development

Game Design (Discipline and Methods)

Interface Design

Hardware Design

UX/UI

Sound and Music in Multimedia

Games and Society

Independent Development Communities

Publications

Chapters and Articles

White, M. (2012). Designing tutorial modalities and strategies for digital games: Lessons from education. International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL), 2(2), 13-34. doi:10.4018/ijgbl.2012040102

White, M., & Mann, B. (2009). Learning from Non-Player Characters in a Role-Playing Game. Yaffle.

White, M. (2009). Toward a new theory of learning from multimedia: The case of digital games. Proceedings of EDGE Conference on Teacher Education, St. John's, NL.

White, M. (2009). The senescence of creativity: How market forces are killing digital games. Loading...3(4).

White, M. (2009). Second language learning through a role-playing game. Proceedings of Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, St. John's, NL.

White, M. (2008). Level 10 Human Student. University of New Brunswick Faculty of Education.

Conference Presentations / Invited Talks

Taylor, N., Fisher, S., & White, M. (2011). Exploring "content-free" digital game design. GRAND Annual Conference WIP Session, 2012. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

White, M. (2010). Gender and digital games: Learning from Education. Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, March, 2010. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

White, M. (2009). Toward a new theory of learning through multimedia. EDGE Conference on Teacher Education, 2009, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

White, M. (2009). Careers in the games industry... other than design. Screwattack Gaming Convention (SGC), July, 2009. Dallas, Texas, USA.

White, M., & Mann, B. (2009). Blurring our real and virtual worlds. Conference of the Canadian Game Studies Association, May, 2009. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

White, M. (2009). Cognitive load management and retention in teaching with an interactive game. Memorial University of Newfoundland Doctoral Speaker Series, St. John's, Newfoundland.

White, M. (2009). Toward a needs assessment for educational computer games. Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, March, 2009, St. John's, Newfoundland.

White, M. (2008). Level 10 human student: Role-playing games as a teaching tool. Conference of the Canadian Game Studies Association, May, 2008, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Service

International Game Developer's Association (IGDA)

Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA)

Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)

Graphics, Animation, and New Media Research Network (GRAND-NCE)

Reviewer

Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association

Foundations of Digital Games Conference 2012

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Dr. Diane Parente

Chair, Interdisciplinary Business and Engineering Studies

Office Location:

Burke 254

Phone:

(814) 898 6436

Email:

dhp3@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Diane H Parente is a professor of management at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She earned the BA in Physics from Wilson College and the MBA from Canisius College in Buffalo with concentrations in management and accounting. She earned her Ph.D. in Operations Strategy from the University at Buffalo in 1997. Dr. Parente is the Samuel A. and Elizabeth B. Breene Professor of Management and developed the Interdisciplinary Business and Engineering program at Penn State Behrend. The program is jointly administered by the Sam and Irene Black School of Business and the School of Engineering.

She has received research awards including the Anbar Scientific Award and Best Paper in the Journal of Management Education. Dr. Parente has received numerous teaching awards at Penn State and the University at Buffalo for both online and residential teaching. She has worked in manufacturing, banking, and insurance, most recently as international business manager with Occidental Chemical.

Dr. Parente has been an active member of the Academy of Management - Operations Division, Midwest Decision Science Institute leadership, and the National Decision Science Institute. She is also a member of ABSEL and POMS.

Prior to employment at Behrend, Dr. Parente was Instructor in marketing and management at Fredonia State College 1992-96 , Visiting Assistant Professor of strategic management 1995-96 , and Assistant Professor of MIS at the University of Mississippi 1996-1998 . She had a graduate teaching position at the University at Buffalo in strategy 1992-95 and was teaching assistant in quantitative methods 1993-96 .

Dr. Parente Ùs industry experience included a variety of positions at Occidental Chemical. She was International Business Manager responsible for strategic direction of 62 products from 12 manufacturing groups. During this period, she traveled extensively to countries in all regions of the world. She was the featured speaker at an international conference in Thailand on the "Worldwide Chrome Chemical Market" and at the International Trade Council in Buffalo on "International Shipping and Logistics." She was also Manager of Corporate Systems responsible for all business computer systems at Oxychem. She was Manager of Logistics and Sales Administration which included transportation systems and equipment, production planning, terminals, warehouses, packaging, exchanges and trades. Her duties included sales administration, forecasting, pricing evaluation, and interaction with production and purchasing, also for the entire Oxychem portfolio. Her early appointment to Oxychem was as a systems analyst and product line manager.

Prior to joining Oxychem, Dr. Parente was an analyst for M&T Bank, working on online computing systems and Prudential Insurance working also in systems analysis and technical programming on a management development program.

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

MGMT 476: Product Realization Capstone

iMBA 521: Strategic Analysis (online)

Courses taught

B ADM 500: Business Enterprise

iMBA 521: Strategic Analysis (online)

iMBA 531: Project Management (online)

iMBA 573: Strategic Planning (online)

INT B 597B: Special Topics - International Business

MANGT 531: Project Organizations (online)

MANGT 540: Strategy: Corporate, Business, and Project (online)

MANGT 573: Strategic Planning and Business Policy (online)

MANGT 575: Management of Projects (online)

MANGT 596: Independent Studies

MANGT 597: Special Topics

MISBD 501: Information Systems in Organizations

MANGT 470W: Strategic Management and Business Policy

MGMT 475W: Strategic Product Development

MGMT 476: Product Realization Capstone

MANGT 480: International Management

MANGT 496: Independent Studies

MANGT 497: Special Topics

PSU 007: Behrend First-Year Seminar

Recipient of teaching awards

Nominated, University Advising Award, 2012

Nominated, Council of Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996, 1997, and 2002.

Excellence in Teaching Award, iMBA Program, Penn State University, 2007; 2005; 2004.

Nominated for the Council of Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award, Penn State Erie, Erie PA, 2001; 2000; 1999

School of Management Excellence in Teaching Commendation recipient, University of Buffalo, School of Management, Buffalo NY, May 1996

Teaching Philosophy

The overriding concept of my approach to teaching business administration is to take advantage of my industry experience and integrate it into the classroom theory. Providing hands-on experiences that allow students to learn by doing is another integral component.

In a graduate setting, students enter with context. In both online programs in which I teach, the students have considerable work experience. They have developed their own frame of reference after some time in the workplace. Graduate students often lack the theory to anchor and build from their experience. One of the challenges of graduate business education is to prove the relevance of the theory to practice. This is true in online education also.

In each of my courses, I design projects that simulate business situations. Students may be required to act as consultants for businesses and organizations on or off campus. They may also produce large-scale projects, such as an international dinner.

I continue to use a variety of teaching approaches in the classroom and select the approach based on the course and the objectives of the course. I have used simulation and large-scale simulation, problem-based learning, cases, active learning, cohesion cases, video enhanced instruction, outreach projects, and traditional lecture.

Teaching Activities

SimProject publication - links the application of my prior industry experience in programming and systems development to the application of cross-functional skills. SimProjectTM (Pinto & Parente) is in its second edition and is being used by approximately 100 institutions around the world. Version 3.0 will be published in 2012.
Provides pedagogical assistance for instructors all over the world on teaching project management as well as teaching with simulation.
Principal author in a research stream using simulation in the classroom that includes an article that was named best paper in the Journal of Management Education (Stephan, Parente, & Brown, 2002).
Frequent speaker at conferences on teaching with simulation.
Research in online pedagogical techniques (See, for example Parente, Duck, Zhao, & Fizel, 2007).
Conducted a well-attended workshop in August 2007 at the Academy of Management; presented a model for online teaching; Supplied examples of various courses and programs and where they resided in the online learning space (Parente, Lee, & Duck, 2007).
Invited to participate as an “expert” on a panel at the National Decision Sciences Institute on the “Do’s and Don’ts on Online Teaching” (Rungtusanatham, Arbaugh, Parente, & Ellram, 2007).
Recipient of Best Paper Award for 2003 in Journal of Management Education by Organizational Behavior Teaching Society.
Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Innovative Education, 2001 – present.
Invited to Eastern Washington University School of Business to present workshop on Mastery Learning and Innovative Teaching Methods in Business, 2001.

Research

Dr. Parente’s research agenda falls into three distinct areas of research interest: cross-functional research based on the value chain, methodological research (both theoretical and research methods), and pedagogical research (both pedagogical studies and academic simulations).

Her research philosophy is interdisciplinary. Sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) is a product of how multiple functions work together. Organizations find that it is the internal capabilities that lead to SCA. Thus, it is just as important to work across academic specialties as within them if we are ever to understand how firms gain SCA.

The second main area of her research is methodological. In addition to the use of inferential statistics, she has used literature reviews and classifications to assist in setting a research agenda in various areas. She was co-editor of a special issue regarding the state of empirical research data collection in Operations Management. The Journal of Operations Management published (Parente & Gattiker, 2007) on Innovative Data Sources for Empirically Building and Validating Theories in Operations Management. This work is important as an introduction for many operations management researchers to help identify alternate methods of data collection in our field.

Finally, she has pursued the development of computer simulations with an extensive stream of both simulation and pedagogical research.

Honors and Awards for Scholarship or Professional Activity

Nominated, Council of Fellows Faculty Outreach Award, 2011, 2010, 2008.

Academy of Management Service award for Division Leadership, 2009.

Best Paper Award, Management Education Division, Academy of Management, annual meeting, 2006.

Research Fellow Award, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, University Park PA, 2006; 2005.

Appointment, Innovative Education Committee, Decision Sciences Institute, 2004.

World Campus Faculty Leadership Award, Penn State University, University Park PA, 2004.

Fritz Rothlisberger Award, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Best Paper in 2002, Springfield MA, 2003.

Citation of Excellence for Research Implications (for International Journal of Operations and Production Management article), ANBAR Electronic Intelligence, MCB University Press, West Yorkshire UK, 1999

Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship, The Netherlands School of Business, Summer 1995

Alma Mater Society Award, State University of NY-Fredonia, Fredonia NY, May 1995

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Swinarski, M. E., D. H. Parente, and R. Koshore. Do Small IT Firms Benefit from Higher Process Capability? Communications of the ACM, July 2012. (forthcoming)

Parente, D. H., J. Stephan, and R. C. Brown. Facilitating Acquisition of Strategic Skills: Traditional and Soft Managerial Skills, Management Research Review, 2012. (forthcoming)

Parente, D. H., G. Filbeck, and J.T. Roth. Learning style preferences in cross-functional teams: Discipline specific or personality-related? Journal of behavioral Studies in Business. 4:1-20 (December 2011).

Filbeck, G., R. Gorman, D. Parente, X. Zhao. Good to Great: Lessons for Managers. Management Research Review 33(12):1187-1208, www.emeraldinsight.com/ 10.1108/01409171011092220 (2010).

Swinarski, M., D. Parente, K. Noce. A Study of Gender Differences with Respect to Internet Socialization of Adolescents. Journal of Business and Economics Research 8(6):23-30 (2010).

Swinarski, M., D. Parente, K. Noce. Are All IT Professionals Created Equally? Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business 2:27-37 (2010).

Filbeck, G., D. Parente, J. Roth. Teaming: Collaboration Efforts between Courses in Corporate Finance and Manufacturing Engineering. Advances in Financial Education 7:34-55 (2009).

Parente, D., M. Swinarski, K. Noce. Socialization to the Internet: Who Is Teaching Our Children? International Journal of Management and Information Systems 13(2):11-19 (2009).

Swinarski, M., D. Parente, K. Noce. Are All IT Professionals Created Equally? Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business, 2:1-11, http://www.aabri.com/ manuscripts/09287.pdf (2009).

Parente, D. H., P. D. Lee, M. D. Ishman, A. V. Roth. Marketing and Supply Chain Management: A Collaborative Research Agenda. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing 23(8):520-528 (2008).

Gattiker, T., D. H. Parente. Introduction to the Special Issue on Innovative Data Sources for Empirically Building and Validating Theories in Operations Management. Journal of Operations Management 25(5):957-961 (2007).

Parente, D. H., J. Duck, X. Zhao, J. L. Fizel. Collaboration: Leading and Learning by Example. Merlot Journal of Online Learning and Teaching 3(2), June 2007. http://jolt.merlot.org/vol3no2/parente.htm (2007).

Southard, P., D. H. Parente. A Model for International Benchmarking: When and How? Benchmarking: An International Journal 14(2):161-171 (2007).

Lee, P. D., D. H. Parente. C3: Cross Course Collaboration Guidelines for Success. International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education 1(2):117-124 (2006).

Muscatello, J. R., D. H. Parente. Enterprise Resource Planning: A Postimplementation Cross-case Analysis. Information Resources Management Journal 19(3):61-80 (2006).

Fisher, K. J., M. Lobaugh, D. H. Parente. An Assessment of Desired “Business Knowledge Attributes” for Engineering Technology Graduates. Journal of Engineering Technology 23(2):10-15 (2006).

Parente, D. H., R. C. Brown, A. G. Warner. Review Sessions and Results: Competency Testing in the Capstone Business Class. Journal of Instructional Psychology 32(3):233-243 (2005) .

Parente, D. H., M. B. Pinto, J. C. Barber. A Pre-post Comparison of Service Operational Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction under Open Access Scheduling. Health Care Management Review 30(3):1-9 (2005).

Pinto, M. B., D. H. Parente, P. M. Mansfield. Information Learned from Socialization Agents: Its Relationship to Credit Card Usage. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Research , 33(4):357-367 (2005).

Millet, I., D. Parente, J. Fizel, R. Venkataraman. Metrics for Managing Online Procurement Auctions. Interfaces 34(3):171-179 (2004).

Parente, D. H., R. Venkataraman, J. K. Fizel, I. Millet. A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Online Auctions in a B2B Environment. Supply Chain Management 9(4):287-294 (2004).

Pinto, M. B., P. M. Mansfield, D. H. Parente, T. Wortman. College Students and Academic Performance: A Case of Taking Control. NASPA 41(3):551-567 (2004).

Agostini, D. E., A. S. Stano, D. H. Parente. Student Performance on the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination C USA Level II Following a Clinical Evaluation, Feedback, and Intervention Program. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 102(9):477-480 (2002).

Parente, D. H., C. C. Pegels, N. Suresh. An Exploratory Study of the Sales-production Relationship and Customer Satisfaction. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 22(9):997-1013 (2002).

Pinto, M. B., D. H. Parente, J. C. Barber. Selling Open Access Health Care Delivery to Patients and Administrators: What's the Hook? Health Marketing Quarterly 19(3):57-69 (2002).

Stephan, J. D., D. H. Parente, R. C. Brown. Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Balancing Knowledge Using Large Scale Simulations in Capstone Business Strategy Classes. Journal of Management Education 26(2):164-193 (2002).

Aldakhilallah, K. A., D. H. Parente. Redesigning a Square Peg: Total Quality Management Performance Appraisals. Total Quality Management 13(1):39-51 (2002).

Thoms, P., J. K. Pinto, D. H. Parente, V. U. Druskat. Adaptation to Self-managing Work Teams. Small Group Research 33(1):3-31 (2002).

Palmer, T. S., M. B. Pinto, D. H. Parente. College Students' Credit Card Debt and The Role of Parental Involvement: Implications for Public Policy. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing 20(1):105-113 (2001).

Pinto, M. B., D. H. Parente, T. S. Palmer. College Student Performance and Credit Card Usage. Journal of College Student Development 42(1):49-58 (2001).

Credit Card Solicitation Policies in Higher Education: Does "Protecting" Our Students Make a Difference? Journal of College Student Development 42(2):169-172 (2001).

Materialism and Credit Card Use by College Students. Psychological Reports 86:643-652 (2000).

Parente, D. H. Across The Manufacturing—Marketing Interface: Classification of Significant Research. International Journal of Operations & Production Management 18(12):1205-1222 (1998).

Books

D. H. Parente (Ed.). Best Practices for Online Procurement Auctions, 1.0 ed., 378 pages. Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA (2007).

D. H. Parente, J. K. Pinto. SimProject Instructor's Manual , 1.2 ed., 143 pages. McGraw-Hill, Chicago, IL (2006).

D. H. Parente, J. K. Pinto. SimProject: A Project Management Simulation , 87 pages. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York, NY (2003). Revised, 1.2 ed., 94 pages, McGraw-Hill, Chicago IL (2005).

Pinto, J. K., D. H. Parente. SimProject Instructor's Manual , 1.0 ed., 130 pages. McGraw-Hill, Chicago, IL (2003).

Parts of Books

Muscatello, J., D. H. Parente. A Post-implementation Case Study and Review of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementations: An Update. Chapter in Innovative Technologies for Information Resources Management (Advances in Information Resources Management Book Series), pp. 1-20. M. Khosrow-Pour, Ed. Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA (2007).

Ghosh, I., J. Fizel, I. Millet, D. H. Parente. Competition and the Winner's Curse in B2B Reverse Auctions. Chapter in Best Practices for Online Procurement Auctions, pp. 150-165. D. H. Parente, Ed. Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA (2007).

Parente, D. H. Online Auctions. Chapter in Battleground: Business, pp. 374-383. M. Walden and P. Thoms, Eds. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT (2007).

Free Trade. Chapter in Battleground: Business, pp. 195-202. M. Walden and P. Thoms, Eds. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT (2007).

SimProject Case. Appendix C in Introduction to Information Systems Project Management , 2nd ed., pp. 293-302. D. Olson, Ed. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York, NY (2002). Revised: 4 th ed. (2007); 3 rd ed. (2005).

SimProject Case. Appendix in Project Management: The Managerial Process, 2nd ed., pp. 555-565. C. Gray and E. Larson, Eds. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York, NY (2002). Revised: 4th ed. (2006); 3rd ed. (2004).

A Large-scale Simulation for Teaching Business Strategy. Chapter in Simulation and Gaming Across Disciplines and Cultures: ISAGA at a Watershed , pp. 75-82. D. Crookall and K. Arai, Eds. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA (1995).

Service

Dr. Parente has served in a variety of positions within Behrend. Among these are:

Faculty Council Chair (2006-07)
College Promotion & Tenure Committee (2005-07; 2008-10; 2012-14)
Chair, Chancellor’s Strategy Committee (2010-12)
Chair, Educational Equity Committee (2007-09)
Chair, Chancellor’s Search Committee (2009-10)
Chair, Business & Engineering Partnership (2004-present)

Service to the iMBA program:

Lead faculty
Academic Steering Committee

Service to Public and Private Organizations

Member, P&T Full Professor External Review Committee, UCCS, 2010.
Presentations and consultation on the development and implementation of an online MBA program. With J. Fizel and J. Duck. Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, October 2007.
Facilitator for new venture, Academic Success Center, Erie, PA, 2004.
Alumnae Director, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, 1997-2000

Service and Outreach-Based Instruction

Supervised graduate student projects with firms and community organizations:

St. Vincent's Medical Group
Elk County Savings Bank
Erie Insurance Credit Union
Brookville Glove Company
Knowledge Park
Continuing and Distance Education
Consulting
American Turned Products, Erie, PA 1999-2000
Erie City Memorials, Erie, PA, 1998-
Total Quality Management Center, Budapest, Hungary, 1995

Conferences

Conference Chair and Organizer Midwest Decision Science Institute held in Erie, PA (2008)

Division Chair, Academy of Management, Operations Division

Program Chair, Academy of Management, Operations Division, Philadelphia, PA (2007)

Professional Development Workshop Chair, Academy of Management, Operations Division, (2006)

Best Practices Workshop Business & Engineering Collaboration, Erie, PA (2004)

Speaking Engagements

Business Skills for Competitive Advantage: Engineering Edition. Speaker, School of Engineering Speaker Series, Penn State Erie, Erie, PA, March 2006.

Credit Card Solicitation on College Campuses. Co-presenter with P. Mansfield. Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, Penn State University, University Park, PA, October 2004.

Credit card game show:

Co-presenter with P. M. Mansfield. Student Financial Aid administrators within the Penn State system, Penn State University, University Park, PA, June 2004.
Invited speaker, with M. B. Pinto, Professional Development Day, Penn State Erie, Erie, PA, August 2001.
Mastery Learning. Invited speaker, Eastern Washington School of Business, Spokane, WA, May 2001.

Other Activities

Adviser, APICS Student Chapter, Penn State Erie, Erie, PA, 2001-08.

Membership in Professional and Learned Societies

Southern Management Association, 2004-08.

American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1998-08.

Society of Human Resource Management, 1996-98.

Academy of Management, 1995-.

Association for Business Simulations and Experiential Learning, 1995-08.

Niagara Frontier Faculty Development Consortium, 1994-95.

Decision Sciences Institute, 1993-.

Production and Operations Management Society, 1993-08.

Business and Professional Women, 1992-97.

Participation in Professional Societies

Midwest Decision Sciences Institute:

Member, Nominating Committee, 2011, 2010.
Officer, 2009.
Beta Gamma Sigma:
President, 2001.
Vice President, 2000.

American Production and Inventory Control Society:

Erie APICS Director and Board Member, 2000-.
Vice President of Marketing, 1999-2000.
Member, 1998-2008.

Academy of Management:

Chair, Professional Development, Operations Division, 2006.
Program Chair, Operations Division, 2007
Pre- Division Chair, Operations Division, 2008
Division Chair, Operations Division, 2009
Past Division Chair, Operations Division, 2010
Secretary, webmaster, outreach chair, Operations Management, 2000-05.
Strategic Planning Subcommittee Coordinator, Operations Management
Leadership Committee, 1998-99.

Production and Operations Management Society:

Education Committee, 1998.

Decision Sciences Institute:

Innovative Education Committee, 2003-05.
Doctoral Seminar Research Advisor, 2004; 2002-03.
Nominating Committee, 1998-99.

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