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Dr. Russ Warley

Chair and Associate Professor of Mechanical Enginering and Industrial Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 247

Phone:

(814) 898 6389

Email:

rlw27@psu.edu

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Biography

Dr. Russell Warley is an associate professor and program chair for the mechanical engineering department at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received the B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1984 from the University of Akron and the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1993 from Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Warley came to Penn State Behrend full-time after teaching in an adjunct faculty position for several years. He brings twenty years of industrial experience to the classroom having worked for both LORD Corporation and Cabot Corporation.

Dr. Warley is a member of the ACS Rubber Division, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME , and the American Society for Engineering Education ASEE . He received honorable mention for best paper, Dynamic properties of elastomers as related to vibration isolator performance at the American Chemical Society meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 1995. He is the two-time team winner of Cabot Corporation Sterling Award for team achievement in commercialization of new products 1995 and 1996. He was the recipient of the Cabot Award for Excellence for team achievement in developing Sterling Solutions Software in 1996. He earned the technical excellence award from Lord Corporation in 1998 and the Behrend College Teaching Workshop Certificate in May 2005.

Dr. Warley was recipient of the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2010.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2011

E MCH 213 – Strength of Materials
M E 345W – Instrumentation, Measurements, and Statics

Courses taught

E MCH 211/011 – Statics
M E 300/M E 030 – Engineering Thermo I
M E 345W – Instrumentation, Measurements, and Statics
M E 410/ME BD 241 – Heat Transfer
M E 345W/ ME BD 320W – Instrumentation, Measurements, and Statics
M E 468/ME BD 455 – Engineering for Manufacturing
MFGSE 520
PL ET 366 – Fluid/Thermal Sciences

Recipient of teaching awards

Nominated, Guy S. Wilson Award for Excellence in Academic Advising, 2006-2007.

Nominated, Council of Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006.

Nominated, Council of Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award (ineligible due to adjunct status), 2003.

Research

Research projects completed

Krahe, R., and Warley, R., “KDI IceMaker,” KD Industries, Inc., Erie, PA, Applied Energy Research Center, four separate projects totaling $91,347, May-August 2007.

Warley, R. L., “Long term stress relaxation of filled silicone elastomers at low strains,” Penn State Early Career Faculty Research Incentive Grant, $2,500, awarded December 2004.

Grants and contracts awarded for improvement of instruction

Warley, R. L., “Animation of heating of steam above and below the critical pressure,” Schreyer Institute curricular funding grant for development of Multimedia Teaching Objects. Multimedia software was developed by Schreyer personnel under my guidance, Summer 2006.

Patents

Methods to make a particle which has an attached stable free radical, U.S. Patent No. 6,551,393, April 22, 2003.

Particle having an attached stable free radical and methods of making the same, U.S. Patent No. 6,068,688, May 30, 2002.

Methods of making a particle which has an attached stable free radical, U.S. Patent No. 6,368,239, April 9, 2002.

Particles having an attached stable free radical, polymerized modified particles, and methods of making the same, U.S. Patent No. 6,337,358, January 8, 2002.

Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Warley, R. L., “Simulation of the distribution of state of cure in multi-stage curing processes,” Journal of Elastomers and Plastics, vol. 42, pp. 313-330, 2010.

Andrawes, J. S., Kronenberger, T. J., Perkins, T. A., Roth J.T. and Warley, R. L., “Effects of DC current on the mechanical behavior of AIMg1SiCu,” Materials and Manufacturing Processes, vol. 22, pp. 91-101, February 2007.

Warley, R. L., Feke, D. L., and Manas-Zioczower, I., “Transient effects in dynamic modulus measurement of silicone rubber, part 2: Effect of mean strains and strain history,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 104, pp. 2197-2204, 2007.

Warley, R. L., “Effect of preheat temperature on the location of the minimum slate of cure in a molded component,” Advances in Polymer Technology, vol. 25, pp. 195-207, 2006.

Warley, R. L., and Halladay, J. R., “Effect of ambient temperature and cure state on the age stiffening of a cured NR/BR blend,” Polymer Testing, vol. 24, pp. 678-683, 2005.

Warley, R. L., Feke, D. L., and Manas-Zloczower, I., “Transient effects in dynamic modulus measurement of silicone elastomers, 1. Zero mean strain measurements,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 98, pp. 1001-1009, 2005.

Warley, R. L., Feke, D.L., and Manas-Zloczower, I., "Effect of peroxide crosslinking on the dynamic modulus of silicone rubber,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 97, pp. 1504-1512, 2005.

Li, C. T., Isayev, A. I., and Warley, R. L., “Experimental study and simulation of interface development and penetration in multi-component transfer molding of rubber compounds,” Rubber Chemistry and Technology, vol. 77, pp. 873-890, November-December 2004.

Li, C. T., Isayev, A. I., and Warley, R. L., “Interface evolution and penetration behavior during two-component transfer molding. Part II: Simulation and experiment”, Polymer Engineering Science, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 697-713, 2004.

Warley, R. L., “Modeling the pressure decay curve of a capillary rheometer,” Journal of Applied Rheology, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 8-13, 2003.

Articles published in refereed proceedings

Lasher, W. C., Onipede, O., and Warley, R. L., “Work in progress – Assessing the un-assessable,” Proceedings of the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Session T1A, 2008. [Co-author]

Khalilollahi, A., and Warley, R. L., “Interfiber orientation and volume fraction effects in electronic composite boards,” Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the American Society for Composites, (CD format), September 2007. [Co-author]

Warley, R. L., and Roth, J. T., “Axial temperature profile in a cylindrical tensile bar carrying a large electric current during a tensile test,” Proceedings of 2006 American Society of Mechanical Engineers-International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2006-14927, 9 pp., November 2006.

Warley, R., Khalilollahi, A., and Roth, J., “Use of coupled field FE modeling in study of resistive heating in a 6061-T6511 aluminum specimen,” Proceedings of the 2006 International ANSYS Conference, 8 pp., Pittsburgh, PA, May 2006.

Khalilollahi, A., Warley, R., and Onipede, O., “Parametric modal study of multilayer composite electronic boards,” [best paper in session award] Proceedings of the 2006 International ANSYS Conference, 11 pp., Pittsburgh, PA, May 2006.

Andrawes, J. S., Heigel, J. C., Roth, J. T. and Warley, R. L., “Effects of DC current on stress-strain curve and hardness of 6061 T6511 aluminum,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers-International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, vol. 3, IMECE2004-61829, 10 pp., 2004.

Articles published in nonrefereed journals

Warley, R. L., “Effectiveness of a thermal protective coating for automotive components,” 180th Technical Meeting of American Chemical Society Rubber Division, Paper #46, Cleveland OH, October 2011. [Primary author and presenter]

Warley, R. L. “Distribution of state of cure in multi-stage curing processes,” ACS Rubber Division Meeting, Louisville, KY, October 2008.

Warley, R. L. “Location of the minimum state of cure in molded components,” ACS Rubber Division Meeting, Cleveland, OH, October 2007.

Warley, R. L., “Effect of preheat temperature on the location of the minimum state of cure in a molded component,” ACS Rubber Division Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2005.

Reed, T. F., and Warley, R. L., “Carbon Black’s effects on vibration isolation,” Rubber World, vol. 217, no. 3, pp. 33-38, 1997.

Warley, R. L., “Dynamic properties of elastomers as related to vibration isolator performance,” Rubber World,vol. 213, no. 6, pp. 33-39, 1996.

Warley, R. L., and Kohli, T. S., “Refinement of elastomer capillary rheometer data using statistical experimental design techniques,” ASTM Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 1994.

Warley, R. L., “Reproducibility of the heat of reaction by DSC,” ACS Rubber Division, Washington, DC, 1991.

Warley, R. L., “Comparison of methods of state of cure determination,” Rubber World,vol. 196, no. 6, pp. 30-32, 34-36, 38, 1987.

Service

Reviewer for refereed journals or presses

Reviewed one paper for Iranian Polymer Journal, June 2009.

Reviewed one paper for presentation at Tire Society meeting, Fall 2008.

Reviewed one paper for Polymer Engineering and Science, 2008.

Reviewed two papers for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institute, November 2007.

Peer-reviewer for one manuscript, Chemical Engineering Science, July 2007.

Reviewed book chapter [invited], New York: McGraw Hill, 2005.

Record of contributions to the University's programs to enhance equal opportunity and cultural diversity

Women in Engineering

Presented “Un-writing on Paper,” Women in Engineering Day, September 2006.

Assistance to student organizations

ASME Student Chapter

Taught EIT session review, “Thermodynamics,” for FE Exam, each March 2004-2009.
Invited presentation, “Rubber Vacuum Molding Calculations,” February 7, 2006.
Invited presentation, “Heat Transfer and Cure Calculations in Rubber Molding,” November 15, 2004.

Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Participated in “Engineering Ideas in Action,” November 4, 2004.

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Dr. Meng Su

Associate Professor Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 155

Phone:

(814) 898 6261

Email:

mus11@psu.edu

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Biography

Dr. Meng Su is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and assistant chair of the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department. He received his B.S. in Mathematics, M.S. in Computational Mathematics from Nanjing University, China, and both the M.S. in Computer Science and the Ph.D. 1999 in Mathematics from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Before joining the faculty at Penn State Behrend in 2000, Dr. Su taught at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 1999-2000 and was a member of the faculty at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai 1987-1995 . His original training was in nonlinear analysis and computational mathematics. Currently, his research is more involved in massive data analysis and application of machine learning to problems in informational retrieval, which are cross-disciplinary areas of computer science and mathematics.

Dr. Su is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery ACM and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI .

Teaching

Dr. Su's Personal Website

Courses for Spring 2012

CMPSC 122

CMPSC474

Research

Dr. Su's research interests include multimedia data structure, information retrieval, design and analysis of algorithms, nonlinear analysis and numerical analysis.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Fenghui Wang, Hong-Kun Xu and Meng Su, "Choices of Variable Steps of the CQ Algorithm for the Split Feasibility Problem," Fixed Point Theory, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 233-508, 2011.

Meng Su and Hong-Kun Xu, "Remarks on the Gradient-Projection Algorithm," Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 35-43, 2010.

Meng Su, "Global Solutions of Parabolic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions," Comm. App. Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 14, no. 3, pp., 1-25, 2007.

Hou, W.C., C.F. Wang, and Meng Su, "Composing Optimal Invalidation Reports for Mobile Databases," Journal of Digital Information Management, vol. 3, no.2, pp. 126-132, 2005.

Meng Su, " Variation of constant formulas for parabolic boundary value problems," Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 49-66, 2004.

Meng Su, "Global one-to-one and surjection by means of attraction basins," Comm. App. Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 9, no.3, pp. 47-56, 2002.

Meng Su, "Applications of Modified Global Existence Theorems of Cauchy Problem," Nonlinear Studies, vol. 9, no.3, pp. 299-306, 2002.

R. Grimmer and Meng Su, "Dependence of solution on nonlinear boundary conditions of one dimensional parabolic equation," Semigroup Forum, vol. 63, pp. 415-421, 2001.

Meng Su, "Initial value problem and global homeomorphism," Proceedings, Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 123, no. 4, pp. 1149-1156, 1995.

Meng Su and Hong-Kun Xu, "Solutions of nonlinear operator equations in Banach spaces with applications," Nonlinear Analysis, TMA 22, no. 7, pp. 857-865, 1994.

Meng Su, "On global existence theorems of initial value problems," Comm. App. Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 87-94, 1994.

Hong-Kun Xu, Meng Su and X. W. Lu, "The monotone iterative technique for first order differential equations," Math. Japan, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 667-673, 1993.

Meng Su, "The Meaningful Way to Mathematics," Nature Journal (Zhi Ran Za Zhi), vol. 12, pp. 440-444, 1989.

Meng Su and Zu He Shen, "Existence and uniqueness of solutions to nonlinear equations," Nanjing Daxue Xuebao Shuxue Bannian Kan, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 168-176, 1998.

Refereed Conference Papers

Xiaocong Fan, Meng Su, "Multi-agent Diffusion of Decision Experiences," ICTAI, 2011.

Xiaocong Fan, Meng Su, "The Impact of Splitting Granularity on Multi-agent Diffusion Computing," IAT, 2011.

Meng Su and Xiaocong Fan, "Applying Diffusion Distance for Multi-Scale Analysis of An Experience Space," AAAI_FSS10_ML, 2010.

Xiaocong Fan and Meng Su, "The Impacts of Diffusion Kernels on Recognition-Primed Multi-Agent Decision Making," IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT, 2010.

Xiaocong Fan and Meng Su, "Using Geometric Diffusions for Recognition-Primed Multi-Agent Decision Making," AAMAS, 2010.

Wen-Chi Hou, Chih-Fang Wang, Cheng Luo, Meng Su, "Grid File with Approximation: An Improved Approach for Multi-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search," IKE, pp. 229-235, 2005.

Meng Su, C. F. Wang, and Hou, W.C., "An Approach of Composing Near Optimal Invalidation Reports," Proceedings, International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM05), pp. 116-124, May 2005.

Ian Eccles (student) and Meng Su, "Illustrating the Curse of Dimensionality Through Numeric Methods," Proceedings, 3rd International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, Las Vegas, June 2004. --The link to project jCurse

Meng Su, "Spatial Data Distribution and the Cost Models for Metric Trees," Proceedings, International conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT 2003), vol 1, Orlando, FL, July 2003.

Best paper award in the session: Image, Speech and Signal Computing

Wen-Chi Hou, Meng Su , Hongyan Zhang, Hong Wang, "An Optimal Construction of Invalidation Reports for Mobile Databases," Proceedings, 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2001), Atlanta, GA, November 2001.

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