Faculty/Staff News of Note
May 2005
YoungJoon Byun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, presented "A Pattern-based Development Methodology for Communication Protocols" at the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, held March 13-17 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-authored by Beverly A. Sanders, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, the paper was published in 2005 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.
A paper by Richard Englund, associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, titled "Adequacy of Laboratory Simulation of In-Line Skater Falls" was published in The Journal of Hand Surgery this spring. His co-authors are John Lubahn, MD of Erie; Gerardo Trinidad, MD of Portsmouth, OH, John Lyons, MD, of Erie, David Ivance, MD, Owatonna, MN, and Frank L. Buczek, PhD. of Erie.
Roger Knacke, Jay Amicangelo, Meng Su, Scott Stevens, and Mehmet Malcok attended the Cleveland State University National Science Foundation Day on April 29 in Cleveland, OH.
Jim Carroll, John Fontecchio, and Mario Loreti of the Media and Instructional Services staff attended the Media and Technical Support Services' Annual Spring Conference at University Park May 2. In addition to attending and audio-visual equipment expo, those attending learned about student response systems from Turning Point Technologies. Student response systems are used by faculty in class to poll students for answers.
Sharon Dale, associate professor of art history, has been awarded a $400 grant from Penn State's Global Fund to defray costs for travel to the Vatican. While there she will gather information and images for her art history courses.
John Fontecchio, senior instructional services specialist in MISC, successfully defended his master's thesis May 9. His thesis, titled "Leadership Role in the Adaptation and Integration of Instructional Technologies in Higher Education," completed his master's program in organizational leadership at Mercyhurst College.
All Penn State Behrend physics faculty attended a workshop titled "Reflections on Workshop Style Physics," presented on campus Tuesday, May 3, by Dr. Scott Franklin and Dr. Vern Lindberg of the Rochester Institute of Technology. The workshop dealt with using an inquiry-based laboratory approach to improve learning in college physics.
Ido Millet, associate professor of MIS, had his paper, "On the Optimality of Management Inconsistency," accepted for publication in the Journal of Management Systems. Millet also had his paper, "Management By Issues: An Organizational System for Processing Problems and Opportunities," accepted for publication in the Journal of Knowledge Management Research & Practice.
Diane Parente, associate professor of management, Peter Southard, assistant professor of management, and Brian Young, lecturer in engineering, have submitted a grant to the Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology for "Penn State Behrend Plastics Benchmarking Study." Their proposal requests $7,437 for a six-month grant period.
Mary Beth Pinto and Phylis Mansfield had their paper, "Direct Mail Credit Card Solicitation of College Students: An Exploratory Study," accepted for publication in Service Market Quarterly, forthcoming in 2005.
The Center for Credit and Consumer Research presented the Credit Game Show for seniors at Collegiate Academy in Erie on April 8.
Sean Thomas Dougherty, a lecturer in creative writing in Penn State Behrend's BFA Program, was a finalist for the 2005 Paterson Poetry Prize for his sixth book, Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (Mammoth Press 2004). Dougherty was one of only eight finalists selected from over 400 books submitted by North American presses. The Paterson Poetry Prize is an annual prize given by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College for a book of poetry published in the previous year with a minimum press run of five hundred. The award ceremony will be held February 2006 in Paterson, New Jersey, where Dougherty will read with the other finalists and 2005 award winner Philip Levine, whose book Breath garnered the 75-year-old master-poet prize. Dougherty's next book is forthcoming from Boa Editions Press.
A group of McDowell High School students visited the School of Science on Tuesday, May 3. While they were here, Chemistry Lecturer Tracy Halmi and Senior Lab Technician Jerry Magraw had them do a chemical analysis of orange oil and caffeine. They also spent time in the chemistry labs talking with faculty and analyzing data. The group ended their morning with a tour of campus housing and lunch at Bruno's Café.
Blair Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, recently visited the Montessori Regional Charter School's upper elementary classes. While there he gave a presentation entitled "Arabic Astronomers and the Copernican Revolution."
Dan Perritano, head men's soccer coach, provided a two-hour seminar on youth soccer for thirty coaches at the Erie Youth Soccer Association (EYSA) conference.
Congratulations to Softball Coach Stacey Pondo, who was selected as AMCC co-coach of the year with Pitt-Bradford's Tina Phillips.
Phylis Mansfield, assistant professor of marketing, Kathleen Noce, lecturer in MIS, and Mary Beth Pinto, associate professor of marketing presented "Utilizing the Web as an Interactive Teaching Tool: An Application for Credit Literacy Among College Students" at the Ciber Institute Annual Conference held in Orlando, FL., in January 2005.
George Dudas, instructor in computer science, and Ron Delporto, lecturer in computer science, attended the Colloquy XI, "Making Connections: Educators Communicating Across Differences," on May 11 at University Park.
Two talks by George Dudas, instructor in computer science, titled "Implementation/Security Issues for Administering a Computer Skills Exam" and "Using ANGEL for the First Time in Large Lectures with Multi-Section Labs," were presented at ANGEL Day III, May 12 at University Park.
Mary Beth Pinto, associate professor of marketing, and Joanna Kreider, graduate assistant in the Center for Credit and Consumer Research, presented "The Credit Card Game Show: An Application of Interactive Learning" at the Ciber Institute Annual Conference, held January 2005 in Orlando, Florida.
Meng Su, assistant professor of computer science, attended MDM 2005: 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, held in Aiya Napa, Cyprus, May 9-13. While there he presented a paper, "A New Approach of Composing Optimal Invalidation Reports," which he co-authored with Chih-Fang Wang and Wen-Chi Hou, both of Southern Illinois University.
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