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John F. Cummins
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University (Science/ Technology)
M.S. The Pennsylvania State University (Astronomy)
M.S. The University of Notre Dame (Physics)
M.A. Whitefriars (Theology)
B.S. St. Bonaventure University (Philosophy/ Mathematics)
Professional interests include Cosmology, Stellar Atmospheres and History
and Philosophy of Science. Dr. Cummins has been with the department
since 1968. He has been Chair of Department since 1975. During his tenure
at Orange County Community College, Dr. Cummins has taken various leaves
of absence to teach at Penn State, Dartmouth College and Indiana University.
The Indiana University appointment was to its overseas operation in
Shah Alam, Malaysia, where Dr. Cummins joined thirty-five U.S. professors
in running an American style undergraduate program at the Islamic center
(ITM) in Shah Alam. Dr. Cummins most recent alternate appointment was
as Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs at Orange. He has recently
returned to the Science and Engineering Department to rejoin his colleagues
and to seek sympathy for his kneecaps, abused by a dozen marathons,
an ultramarathon, and years of downhill skiing.
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David Davies - Professor Emeritus
Received a BS degree in Physics from Michigan State University in 1962.
At IBM, 1963, programmed Design Automation software for building main
frame computers. Masters in Physics from SUNY at New Paltz, 1969. Joined
Orange County Community College in the Physical Science Division in
1969. Taught Engineering/ Science Department course in Physics, Engineering,
Computer Programming, and Computer Graphics. He is a retired Emeritus Professor currently active in the department.
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Dick Feinberg -Professor Emeritus
Received a B.S. in Engineering at Rensselaer University in 1963
Received a M.S. in Engineering from Colombia 1965
Joined Orange County Community College in the Physics/ Engineering Department
in 1965
Previously taught Mechanics I & II, General Physics/ Calculus, Physics
for Science & Engineering, Circuit Theory, Thermodynamics
He is a retired Emeritus Professor currently active in the department.
Currently teaching Physical Science III, Circuit Theory, & Mechanic's
II
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John Wolbeck
Licensed PE Professional Engineer by State of NY
A.S. Engineering at Orange County Community College
B.S. Mechanical Engineering-SUNY Buffalo
M.S. Environmental Engineering-Manhattan
Currently working on Ph.D. Civil Engineering
Automotive industry, NY City Filtration Pilot for study of Drinking
Water Safety, N.Y. S. Dept. of Environmental Conservation. Currently
in 7th year as instructor at OCCC.
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Pak Leung - Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., MA (Physical Chemistry) Columbia University;
BS (Chemical Engineering) National Taiwan University;
He is a retired Emeritus Professor currently active in the department.
Professional interests include consultation in surface and colloidal
chemistry; ultrafiltration; and polymer processing. Pak has published
more than 30 papers and several book chapters; he holds 13 U.S. patents.
He is a member of the Colloid Division of American Chemical Society;
2YC3; Sigma Xi Society; American Men and Women in Science; and Who's
Who of Asian Americans.
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Dr. Timothy MacMahon
Timothy MacMahon was born in the continental United States yet not
in any state in the union. He spent much of his youth mired in mud and
was generally considered an intellectual cripple. His formal mental
development did not begin until college. He attended Rutgers University,
the State University of New Jersey, and graduated with High Honors in
the spring of 1982. After a brief stint as an industrial analytical
chemist/ whipping boy at Spex Corporation in Metuchen, NJ, he decided
it was time to continue his mental development. After two years as a
bench chemist, he realized life as a BA chemist was dirty and hard.
While he fondly remembered the times he spent as a youth encased in
dirt and mud, he was unwilling to return there for long. Therefore,
he returned to school to continue his exercise of the little gray cells.
This time the school was Purdue, home of the Black and Golf Boilermakers.
Since Purdue is in West Lafayette, IN, he became a Hoosier. In his stint
as a boilermaker, the football team did not win one game, but he did
manage to see the Goodyear Blimp up close and personal. Well maybe they
did win one game, but did not win many more that that. He attended Purdue
from 1984 to 1989. At which point, he felt he had grown intellectually
enough to escape so he wrote a thesis and absconded with a Ph.D. in
analytical chemistry to New York and once again worked as analytical
chemist. This time he worked for one of the largest corporation in the
world, IBM. After a few years as a mass spectroscopist specializing
in Fourier Transform Mass Spectroscopy (FTMS), tandem mass spectroscopist
EB design, FAB/MS, Thermospray/MS, and Particle beam/MS, he managed
to dodge the layoffs and quietly slipped out of the building (310 for
those who know) and resurfaced in Middletown, NY at Orange County Community
College. As far as is known, he is still there teaching chemistry, what
else?
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Cynthia MacMahon
B. A. in Chmeistry 1981, Drew University
M. S. in Organic Chemisty 1989 Purdue University
Hudson- Valley American Chemical Society Board
American Chemical Society Member
Who's Who In America's High School Teachers
Cynthia came to Orange County Community College through a winding road. Cynthia started her career in 1981 at BOC. She went on to graduate school. Later, she worked at Texaco doing computational and analytical chemistry to solve many of Texaco's oil and fuel additive problems. After Texaco's dramatic down fall, she moved onto teaching high school Chemistry. Finally she decided that her real talent was still in teaching, but at a higher level.
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Lawrence E. O'Brien
B. S. in Geology, 1965, University of Dayton
M. S. in Geology, 19872, University of Michigan
Geological Society of America
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
New York State Geological Association (President, 1989)
Although Mr. O'Brien began his career involved with economic geology,
his interests extend to most areas of geology. He has examined geology
in all 50 states and many of the provinces of Canada. Mr. O'Brien has
done additional geology studies with the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
State University, SUNY New Paltz, and the US Geological Survey. He spent
the summer of 1990 working with the USGS at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory
on Kilauea.
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