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
Biography

Dr. Thomas Hemminger is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.  He earned the B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1985 at Cleveland State University, the M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1988 at Clarkson University, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1992 at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hemminger was the recipient of the Penn State Behrend Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award in April 2006. He was recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) by being awarded the service award for section chair in 2000 and the Outstanding Member Award from the Erie Engineering Societies Council, 1999. He was nominated for the Penn State Behrend Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award in Spring 1996 and Spring 1998. Dr. Hemminger was the second runner-up with Dr. Robert Farrell for the paper, “Improving blow molding machine performance with neural networks,” at ANNIE ’97, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, November 1997 where they received the Novel Engineering Application Award for this work. He also received the Merl K. Miller Award for the outstanding COED journal paper on Teaching/Instructional Methods, Computers in Education, Division of American Society of Engineering Education in 1993.  Dr. Hemminger is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a past member of the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE).

Prior to employment at Behrend Dr. Hemminger was an instructor during 1985-1986 at Lorain County Community College, a teaching assistant from 1986-1989 at Clarkson University, a graduate teaching assistant in 1989 at Case Western Reserve University, and a graduate research assistant from 1990-1992 , also at Case Western.