1999-2000
WPI Announces New Visiting Faculty
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/Septermber 24, 1999
Contact: Arlie Corday, WPI Media & Community Relations
WORCESTER, Mass. - The following visiting professors and instructors are bringing their expertise into the classrooms of Worcester Polytechnic Institute this year:
- Richard K. Allen of Canton, Mass., is an adjunct associate professor
of civil and environmental engineering. A partner at Gadsby & Hannah,
a practice limited to construction law, he earned a 1985 J.D. degree
at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H., and a 1980 M.S. degree
in civil engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle. He
completed graduate research at McGill University in Montreal and holds
a 1976 B.S. in civil engineering from WPI.
- Juan C. Chaves of Shrewsbury, Mass., is an adjunct instructor in
management. A Ph.D. candidate in manufacturing engineering at WPI, he
earned a 1990 master's of business administration, management
information systems, from the State University of New York, a 1985
master of engineering in mechanical engineering, energy conservation,
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a 1983 B.S. degree in
engineering mechanics from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He
has been an adjunct professor with tenure in mechanical engineering at
the University of Costa Rica.
- Herschel Clopper of Framingham, Mass., adjunct assistant professor
of management, has earned a 1968 Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
Rice University in Houston, Texas, and 1963 M.S. and 1962 B.S. degrees
in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Cambridge, Mass. He studied business management in the M.B.A. program
at Babson College and has been an engineer and manager at Polaroid
Corp. and an assistant professor at Catholic University of America.
- Richard J. Cournoyer of Worcester, Mass., an adjunct instructor in
mechanical engineering, earned a 1999 masters of science degree, and
earlier a B.S. degree, in manufacturing engineering from WPI. He has
been WPI's robotics laboratory manager since 1998.
- Jose M. Jimenez of Worcester, Mass., is an instructor in civil and
environmental engineering. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in civil
engineering at WPI, having earned a 1999 M.S. in civil engineering at
WPI and a 1996 B.S. in civil engineering at the University of Puerto
Rico.
- Amy McGowan of Northborough, Mass., is an adjunct instructor of
physics. She has 1999 Ph.D. and 1986 M.S. degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Colorado and a 1979 B.A. in biology
from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been
a graduate teaching/research assistant at the University of Colorado
and an adjunct professor in electrical engineering at Colorado
Technical University.
- Lyle Mitchell of Worcester, Mass., is a visiting scholar in the
Social Science and Policy Studies Department. A Ph.D. candidate at the
Centre for Complexity and Change at the Open University in England,
his work involves local venture capital and social inclusion. He will
teach workshops and seminars at WPI during his stay.
- Raphael J. Njoroge of Worcester, Mass., an adjunct assistant
professor of history, earned a 1977 Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Nairobi, Kenya, a 1967 M.A. degree in philosophy from
Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and a bachelor of arts degree in
social sciences and philosophy from Gonzaga. He has a licentiate in
philosophy from Mount Saint Michael's Seminary of Philosophy and
Science, has taught at Holy Cross, Worcester State and Quinsigamond
Community colleges and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard
University.
- Mitchell Sanders of Leicester, Mass., is an affiliate professor of
biology. He earned a 1992 Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and a 1988
M.A. in biology at WPI, a 1986 B.S. in biology from Boston University
and a 1995 certificate in leech neurobiology from the Marine
Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. He has been a visiting
scientist at WPI and is president and CEO of Expressive Constructs
Inc. in Worcester.
- Ingrid Vargas of Quincy, Mass., an instructor in interdisciplinary
and global studies, earned a 1999 Ph.D. in Latin American history from
Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., a 1989 M.A. degree in
international relations and economics and Latin American studies from
Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor of arts
degree in political science from Queens College, City University of
New York, in Flushing. She has been an adjunct professor at Pace
University and at College of the Holy Cross.
- Desheng Zong of Somerville, Mass., is an adjunct assistant professor
of philosophy. He earned a 1998 Ph.D. in philosophy from Tulane
University in New Orleans, La., and 1987 M.A. and 1982 B.A. degrees in
history from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. He has been an
adjunct faculty member at Emerson College, Wentworth Institute of
Technology and Suffolk University, a teaching assistant and graduate
instructor at Tulane and a full-time assistant professor at Nankai
University.
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