Organizing conferences, service on conference committees
Invited Session Chair, 13th Annual International Conference on Composite Engineering, Boulder, CO, July 2006.
Invited Session Chair (#14c- MATH VII), 11th Annual International Conference on Composite Engineering, Hilton Head, SC, August 2004.
Invited Session Chair, 10th Annual International Conference on Composite Engineering, New Orleans, LA, July 2003.
Service to community
Judge, "Academic Sports League Competition; Science and Math," sponsored by Erie School District held at Penn State Behrend, January 1995.
Service to business and industry
Applied Research Laboratories, Inc., Miami FL. Assisted in setting up test procedures for measuring pressure drops across various vents, 2003.
Superior Jamestown, Co., Jamestown, NY. Reviewed and offered modifications for a proposal by the company to acquire funding for construction of PTM (teller machine), 1999.
Service to student organizations
Faculty Adviser, Behrend Mechanical Engineering Club (SGA Club), 1988-2002.
Served in advisory capacity to John Roth (new faculty advisor) of the ASME Mechanical Engineering student section at Behrend and helped with the regional student conference participation, 2003.
Faculty Adviser, ASME Student Section, 1990-2002.
Helped to increase membership of ASME student section on various occasions, 2004.
Presented, “What is ASME, 10 Reasons to Join!” to ASME Student Section Meeting, September 1991-September 2002.
Assist the student officers in writing and organizing reports and filling forms for the Ingersoll-Rand contest which is based on the annual activities of student section. The section was awarded a certificate of outstanding organization, 2000.
Initiated construction of a home web page for our ASME - ME student section, 1998.
Judge, Student Paper Competition Event for Mechanical Engineering Club, Spring 1989 and 1991.
Presented, "Construction of telescopes," to Behrend Astronomy Club, January 1988.