Information Technology

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

Faculty

Lisa Bock

Assistant Professor, Computer Information Technology
Lisa Bock, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Technology

Phillip Chambers

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Patricia Coulter

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Patricia Coulter, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Dr. Asesh Das

Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Asesh Das, Professor, Computer Science

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.

Anita Girton

Assistant Professor, Computer Information Technology
Anita Girton, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Technology

Dr. Bahram Golshan

Associate Professor, Computer Science

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.

Denise Leete

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Education

  • M.Ed., Business, Education, Shippensburg University
  • B.S., Business Administration, Alfred University

John Messer

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Dr. Jacob Miller

Associate Professor, Computer Science
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Scott O’Connor

Lecturer

Mahendra Singh

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Dr. Nicholas Vonada

Associate Professor, Computer Science
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Education

  • M.S., Lock Haven University
  • B.A., Lycoming College
  • Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University

 

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

Daniel Yoas

Assistant Professor, Computer Information Technology
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