Ron Del Porto

Ron DelPorto is a lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He was appointed to full-time status in August of 1999 in the Computer Science program. Mr. DelPorto had previously served as a part-time faculty member from 1985-1999.

Mr. DelPorto teaches C++, Visual Basic, C#, Excel, and computer networking. His interests are in the area of text processing using regular expressions as well as other aspects of computer programming. He also has interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning and continues to study and apply improves techniques to achieve student learning. Of particular interest are recent findings how the brain learns. He has taught Animated Storytelling with Alice in the College for Kids program. Mr. DelPorto is the Webmaster foe the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association, which is an organization of world language for teachers at both the secondary and post-secondary level. He is fluent in Spanish.

Mr. DelPorto earned the B.A. in Marketing from Gannon University in 1971 and an M.B.A. from Gannon University in 1975. Prior to joining Penn State Behrend as a full-time faculty member, he had forty years of experience in Information Systems at AMSCO, a medium sized Healthcare Equipment Manufacturer.