Faculty Center for Teaching and Instructional Technology

Advisory Board

Peter Swan Peter Swan has been involved with transportation his whole life.  After obtaining his MBA in transportation at the University of Tennessee, he worked for ten years on several jobs in operations, marketing, and information systems for several carriers before returning to college to obtain his Ph.D. in operations management from the University of Michigan.  Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Logistics and Operations Management at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in supply chain management.  He has written several papers relating to carrier operations and/or economics.  His expertise covers operations management, economics, logistics, marketing, and information systems.  More recently Dr. Swan has focused his research on issues of productivity, operations, and transportation markets.

 

 

 

 

A B Shafaye AB Shafaye began teaching in the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, in 1986. He is a Senior Instructor in the Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology programs.  His areas of interest include digital systems, control systems, microcontrollers, data communications, and wind power.  Currently, he is the Central Area Chair for IEEE Region 2 with 4800 members in 6 sections covering South Central and Western PA and West Virginia.

 

 

 

Heidi Abbey Heidi Abbey is the Humanities Reference Librarian & Archivist at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, Library.  She holds an M.A. (1994) in art history from the University of Maryland at College Park, and an M.L.S. (1999) from the University at Albany, S.U.N.Y.  She has expertise in archives and special collections, digital imaging, intellectual property rights management, web design and development.  Her research interests are in the areas of American popular culture (especially advertising, collecting and collectibles, digital culture, and weddings), American art and architecture, children's literature, digitization for the humanities, museum studies, and women's studies.

 

 

 

Gloria Clark Gloria Clark received her Ph.D. degree in comparative literature (Latin America) from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton.  She is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.  As a faculty member in the Humanities, her emphasis is on interconnectedness.  She wants students to understand how the study of language and literature relates to contemporary life and events.  Her background in comparative literature and language compels her to seek out patterns and links that trace the human journey through culture and place.  Many of her courses explore human rights and environmental issues.

 

 

 

 
Patricia Cranton Patricia Cranton received her Ph.D. degree in 1976 from the University of Toronto in Canada.  Patricia's primary research interests have been in the areas of teaching and learning in higher education, transformative learning, and most recently, authenticity and individuation.  She is currently a Visiting Professor of Adult Education at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.  Patricia Cranton’s most recent books include a second edition of Planning instruction for adult learners (2000), Becoming an authentic teacher (2001), Finding our way: A guide for adult educators (2003), and the second edition of Understanding and promoting transformative learning (2006).

 

 

 
Don Hummer Don Hummer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.  He holds the Ph.D. in Social Science-Criminal Justice from Michigan State University.  Dr. Hummer teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in corrections, statistics, and comparative criminal justice.  In addition to research interests in institutional corrections, his writing focuses on offender reentry, parole, and community violence.  He is co-author/editor of three texts: Parole and Offender Reentry: New Directions in Offender Treatment, Offender Control, and Community Change (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), The Culture of Prison Violence (2008, Pearson Allyn & Bacon), and Handbook of Police Administration (2008, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press).

 

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