Penn State Behrend
    School of Engineering
    5101 Jordan Road
    Erie, PA  16563-1701

    Office: REDC 173
    Phone: (814) 898-6184
    Fax: (814) 898-6125
    Email: rxg31@psu.edu

Robert Gray
Service

Organizing conferences, service on conference committees

Institute of Navigation International GPS Conference, Long Beach, CA, September 2005.
Session Chair, Integrated Navigation Systems with Auxiliary Sensors, with Larry Levy, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD.

Active participation in professional and learned societies

Institute of Navigation

• Session Chairman, GPS International Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 2003.
• Session Chairman, GPS/GNSS International Technical Meeting, Portland, OR, 2003.

Service to community

Boy Scouts of America, Electronics, Engineering, and Orienteering Technical Merit Badge Counselor, Boy Scouts French Creek Council, Erie, PA, 2003.
Judge, Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, 2000.

Service to business and industry

General Electric, Erie, PA.  Assisted in the production of a public affairs video for GE’s Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic Technology Services entitled “Expert on Board,” 2000.

General Electric, Erie, PA.  Provided advice in the support and set-up of General Electric Transportation Systems Anechoic Chamber Radio Frequency (RF) interference test for conductivity, susceptibility, and radiated emissions, 1999.

Bliley Electronic, Erie, PA.  Advised regarding reliability and quality assurance practices for the manufacture of GPS quartz crystals, 1999.

General Electric, Erie, PA.  Supported multiple efforts directed at locating GE e-Commerce at the Penn State Behrend, Knowledge Park, 1999.

Service to government agencies

PennDOT Engineering, Harrisburg, PA. Snowplow safety briefing, December 2005.

PENNDOT, Erie, PA.  Technical expert and elected participant in the Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Intelligent Transportation System Architecture Regional Advisory Panel, 2004.

County of Erie, Erie, PA.  Participant in the Erie County Emergency Vehicle Systems Traffic Signaling Preemption Working Group, held at Penn State Behrend, 2004.

Federal Railroad Administration, Athens, OH.  Invited technical expert in navigation and wireless communication for Federal Railroad Administration Precision National Differential GPS working group meeting, 2004.

United States Marine Corp (USMC), Quantico, VA.  Presented Penn State University Park and Pennsylvania Transportation Institute/Center for Navigation, Communication, and Information Systems (PTI/CNCIS) technical research findings on “Enabling Logistics with Portable and Wireless Technology,” 2004.

United States Marine Corp (USMC), Washington, DC.  Invited participant in a three day Department of Defense Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Summit for Industry, 2004.

Erie County Counter Terrorism Task Force, Erie, PA.  Invited presenter for “Command, Control, Communication, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems,” Great Lakes outline and overview, 2004.

Volpe Department of Transportation, Boston, MA.  Invited to Transportation Systems Differential GPS technical interchange meeting with the Federal Railroad Administration held at Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2004.

City and County of Erie, PA.  Invited technical expert and presenter, “Great Lakes Remote Command and Control, Communication, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems Center,” to Mayor Rick Filippi and County Executive Rick Schenker, 2004.

Erie City and County Government, Erie, PA.  Coordinated and participated in providing the groundwork, idea, and blueprint for the proposed Center for Great Lakes Remote Command and Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems Center, 2003.

Erie County Government, Erie, PA.  As Director of Pennsylvania Transportation Institute/Center for Navigation, Communications, and Information Systems (PTI/CNCIS), participated in the set-up and support of an Emergency Vehicle Traffic Preemption Task Force, hosted by Center for eBusiness and Advanced IT (eBizITPA) at Penn State Behrend, 2003.

City of Erie, Erie, PA.  Traffic Engineering Advisory Council, 2003.

NASA-Langley, Hampton VA.  Invited peer reviewer to provide an objective, supplementary view of the quality and direction of NASA-Langley’s Mission Critical Systems in the Airborne Systems Competency Group, 2002.

City of Erie, PA.  Served as technical expert and advisor for traffic engineering regarding maintainability of traffic signaling and support in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 2002.

Ben Franklin of PA.  Served as technical expert and advisor assisting in the evaluation of a small North West Pennsylvania business.  Provided technical assistance and guidance to this business with regards to its navigation-electronics parts manufacturing products, 2002.

Member, Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics Special Committee 193/EUORCAE Working Group 44 “Terrain and Airport Database.”  Served as a member of an international group of industry and government experts working together in the united development of industry specifications for the safe and proper use of terrain and obstacle databases for aircraft applications, 2000.

Wright Paterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH.  Aided ASC/ENA engineering studies regarding Reduction of Cost and Analysis of Maintenance Actions for the F-16 Inertial Navigation Systems, 1999.

Service to professional and industrial associations

Chinese government delegation, Erie, PA. Presented an overview of Penn State Behrend’s Center for Navigation, Communication, and Information Systems (CNCIS) to visiting dignitaries from China, January 2005.

Service to educational institutions

Erie Day School, Erie, PA.  Presented an elementary school science workshop, “The Global Positioning System,” 2004.

Erie County Vocational Technical High School, Erie, PA and Corry Area Vocational Technical School, Corry, PA.  Coordinated and provided workshop technical assistance for Electrical Engineering Technology High School Workshop at Penn State Behrend, 2003.

Central High School, Erie, PA.  Presented Engineering and Engineering Technology recruitment workshop at Penn State Behrend, 2002.

Service to student organizations

Faculty Advisor, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), 2000-present.

• Met with minority company, INROADS, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania regarding career opportunities for high achieving students of color, April 2003.
• Received NSBE Small Chapter of the Year Award, 2001.
• Received Penn State President’s Award for Outstanding Student Organization.
• Held volunteer sessions with General Electric at Edison Elementary School.
• Conducted African American History Workshop.
• Held etiquette dinner.
• Conducted GE-PSU Leadership and Outreach Workshop.

Contributions to the University's programs to enhance equal opportunity and cultural diversity

Math Options Program for 7th and 8th grade girls

• Provided PTI-CNCIS global positioning receivers for use at workshop, May 2006.
• Co-presented with T. Hemminger, “Calculate the Distance between Two GPS Survey Points,” May 2005.
• Co-presented with T. Hemminger, “Measuring Distances Between Locations on Campus Using Satellites,” May 2004.
• Co-presented with T. Hemminger, “Using GPS Technology in the Classroom,” at the Math Options Workshop, Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA, 2003.
• Presented with T. Hemminger and J. Bradford, “Girl meets world…with a little help from GPS,” May 2002.
• Presented “GPS Navigation and Search and Rescue,” May 2000.

Math and Science Summer Camp

• Presented technical sessions “Measuring Distances with GPS,” “Map Basics,” “Our Recipe for Learning about GPS,” and “Why GPS?” July 2000.