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Information Technology

School of Business & Computer Technologies
Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center, Rm. E257 · (570) 327-4517

Faculty

Lisa Bock, Instructor, Computer Science

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Michele Budnovitch, Instructor, Computer Science

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Phillip Chambers, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Patricia Coulter, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Patricia Coulter

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Dr. Asesh Das, Professor, Computer Science

Asesh Das

Asesh Das joined Pennsylvania College of Technology-- an affiliate of The Pennsylvania State University, in 1994. He received his Ph.D. in high energy nuclear physics in India and worked under the renowned quantum physicist, Dr. Partha Ghose. He earned an M.S. in computer science from Florida Institute of Technology. In this school he worked on computer soft errors with Dr. Jay Burns and on intelligent decision-making theories with Dr. Leonard Doyon. Asesh did two years of post-doctoral work in computer science and taught at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. In this school, he researched with Dr. Moonis Ali on computer-aided intelligent tutoring system. Their team worked also with Tennessee state education officers on developing computerized models on cognitive processes for students with learning difficulties.

Before coming to Penn College, Asesh was working and teaching with Dr. Ramana Reddy's artificial intelligence group in the West Virginia University. During this time he also worked for some time in HGO Technology, Inc., as a system analyst. While at the West Virginia University, he was awarded two consecutive summer faculty fellowships by the Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton, Ohio, and researched on computer modeling of qualitative reasoning and on USAF's Integrated Information Maintenance System [IMIS].

Several Penn College students have research papers presented and published with Professor Das. He is specially very proud of the work done by one of his students, a Lycoming County Government officer, on the selection of inmate security devices, where she researched and applied a part of her system analysis project from a course taught by him. He also talks about the student paper on thin-client & intranet-based e-commerce presented in a National Aerospace & Electronics Conference and about the student paper enquiring the socio-cultural nature of ubiquitous computing architecture. Recently, he has researched and written papers with students on the application of storyboarding in software engineering technology.

Asesh is a regular popularizer and presenter of technical topics to the visiting 7th-12th grade students during the Penn College Outreach for K-12 Career Day activities in March and October, and his favorite subjects to present are cryptography and wireless computing technologies.

He has more than 50 research papers to his credit and a teaching experience of about 35 years.

For consecutively 4 times he has been nominated by his students to be listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers publications

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Pamela Ellis, Instructor, Computer Science

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Anita Girton, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Dr. Bahram Golshan, Associate Professor, Computer Science

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Dr. Sandra Gorka, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Allen Henry, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Education:

M.S., Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University

B.S., Math, Shippensburg University

Academic Experience:

Over 30 years of experience teaching computer science and computer technology at post-secondary educational institutions, including: The Pennsylvania State University, Bucknell University, Susquehanna University, and Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Has written and presented papers at national conferences, and completed a book.

Work Experience

Currently, Mr. Henry serves as a consultant on database and computerized accounting systems for several businesses. He encourages the involvement of his students in the contract and development processes, and plans to continue and expand his efforts in that area as the MIS program evolves.

Computer Consultant – Small Business Development Center, Bucknell University

Trainer – Conducted workshops and seminars for small businesses in the Susquehanna Valley area

Programmer – HRB Systems

Developed information system – Mister Donut franchises

Co-founder – Unique Software, Inc.

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Elizabeth Jensen, Instructor, Computer Science

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Denise Leete, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Education:

M.Ed., Business, Education, Shippensburg University

B.S., Business Administration, Alfred University

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John Messer, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Dr. Jacob Miller, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Dr. Jacob Miller

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Paras Shah, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Education:

M.S., Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

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Mahendra Singh, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Nicholas Vonada, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Nicholas Vonada

Education:

M.S., Lock Haven University

B.A., Lycoming College

Academic Experience:

4 years faculty Computer Science

10 years adjunct faculty Computer Science

Work Experience

12 years industrial management experience

27 years of US Army Logistics Management

12 years Computer Services, Penn College

Professional Publications

"A Cognitive Engineering Approach to Portal Management." Asesh Das and Nicholas Vonada, Proc. IEEE SECON, Clemson, SC, 2001

"Why Machines Prefer Intelligent Reasoning from All Users? Amartya Sen: Because They Belong to Human Functioning Spaces." Asesh Das and Nicholas Vonada, Proc. IEEE SECON, Lexington, KY, 1999

Professional Associations

DVUG (Delaware Valley Users Group)

COMMON Users Group

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Daniel Yoas, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Daniel Yoas

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