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

    Office: REDC 168
    Phone: (814) 898-6479
    Fax: (814) 898-6125
    Email: tlh5@psu.edu

Thomas L. Hemminger
Service

Organizing conferences, service on conference committees

American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE)

• Session Chair, North Central Section Conference, Erie, PA, April 9, 1999.

Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE)

• Session Chair, 1996, 1998, and 2002.

Active participation in professional and learned societies

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Arranged tour for forty people, including 20 Behrend students, of the NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, March 31, 2006.
• Chair, October 2005-present.
• Vice-Chair, October 2004-2005.
• Coordinated the Region 2 student research paper, hardware competition, and leadership conference held at Penn State Erie. Acquired $1,500 from the EESC and local IEEE to help sponsor the event.  Total budget approximately $20,000, primarily from Region 2, April 16-17, 1999.
• Chair, Erie Chapter, 1998-2000.
• Organized sponsored V.I.P. tour of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, April 26, 1997.
• Organized sponsored tour of Behrend plastics center, March 24, 1997.
• Organized student paper contest, March 19, 1997.
• Organized student paper contests at Behrend College, 1996-present.
• Vice-President, Erie Chapter, Spring 1996-1997.
• Judge, student paper contest at Gannon University, Erie, PA, March 13, 1996.
• Student Branch Counselor, 9/1995-present.

Service to public and private organizations

Judge, Gannon University Student Paper Competition, Spring 2005 and Spring 2006.

United Way volunteer, 2003.

Service to educational institutions

College for Kids, Penn State Behrend, Division of Student Affairs

• Presented Op-Amp Camp: Introduction to Electronics, 2006.

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

Presented two programs, 21st Century Kids, June 21, 2006.

Presenter, Women in Engineering, September 2006.

Participated, Minority College Experience/Women in Science and Engineering (MCE/WISE), 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Presented GPS demonstrations, Math Options, 2003-present.

Service to student organizations

Attended, Cleveland State Conference, April 23-24, 2004.

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Student Section

• Branch counselor, September 1995-present.
• Organized, Behrend College, IEEE Student Paper Competition, Logan House, March 16, 2005. First place winner Andrew Sobotka traveled to Rowan University to compete in the Region II event.
• Organized the Behrend College IEEE Student Paper Competition, Logan House, March 17, 2004.  First place winners, Troy Tancraitor and Mohammed Hoque, traveled to Cleveland State University to compete in the Region II event.
• Organized student paper competition, March 5, 2003.
• Acquired outside funding for the student robot competition at Penn State Harrisburg, totaling approximately $1000, 2000.
• Organized a satellite video conference through NASA and PBS discussing the future of the space station and current research opportunities at NASA, April 11, 1996.
• Student Branch Counselor, 1995-present.
• Active in fund raising and recruitment, 1995-present.
• Presented, “Introduction to image recognition,” October 1993.
• Presented, “Multipath target localization using neural networks,” April 1993.
• Presented, “Neural computing,” October 1992.

Computer Club

• “Introduction to MATLAB,” October 16, 1996 and January 25, 1996.