Thursday, March 3, 1994
MET teacher connected to industry
Jan CtMriPhoto Coadimtor
TURN TO PAGE 456: Involved in the MET associate
degree program, Richard Englund trys to make his students
understand what the material is good for.
And the
winners are...
by Paul M. Marini
CoUtsian Staff
The winners of the Kenneth
Sonnenberg Poetry Award for
1993 were recently announced.
The winners are:
First Place: Sarah Woodin for
“The Problem with Not
Touching” and other selections.
Woodin is a senior English
major with a psychology minor
who plans to achieve a Ph.D. in
literature, and is currently writing
a senior thesis on poet Adrienne
Rich.
Second Place: Rene Burket for
“Till the Cows Come Home” and
other selections. Burket grad
uated in May of 1993 with an
English degree.
Heather
McKissok for “I Knew It Had to
Be Weird With You” and Dan
Sargent for “Parents: 1) The
Death of Sweet Mother 2)
Father”. McKissok is a senior
and Sargent is a sophomore.
Both are English majors.
Behrend faculty hu nothing to
do with the poetry-judging
process.
“The judging is not done on
campus,” said Dr. Diana Hume
George, professor of English and
Women's Studies “The judge is
always an outside evaluator and
always a distinguished author."
This year the judge was George
Kuzma from the University of
Nebraska. Kuzma is a writer of
20 poetry anthologies and is a
creative writing instructor.
“The judges base their decision
on originality of style, freshness
and vitality of language, and
quality of language," George said.
The first place winner is
awarded $lOO, publication in
“Tempus," Behrend's literary
magazine, a certificate, and a
copy of Kenneth Sonnenberg’s
book, “Moving the Dunes.”
Second and third place winners
receive a certificate, publication
in “Tempus,” and a copy of
The Kenneth Sonnenberg
Poetry Award was established in
1988 by George.
“Ken Soonenbag was a student
here (at Behrend), and he
graduated in 1987,” George said.
Kenneth Sonnenberg later died
of lymphoma. “I decided to
establish this award in his
memory with his widow Arden
Sonnenberg,” George said.
She added that Kenneth
Sonnenberg enjoyed writing, was
on the “Tempus” and “Collegian”
staffs, and was a photographer.
“I knew that Ken would want
to support the wok of apprentice
writers at this college that he
loved,” Geargbsaid.
“No, you dnr’t have to be an
English uuyor (to receive the
award),” George said, “You have
to be a Behrend student, *>r have
been one the previous year'”
by Jen Colvin
CoUtgianSiqff
After 22 months of work in the
oldest civilian nuclear power
plant, Richard Englund was
exposed to less radiation than he
received from the chest x-ray he
received to work there.
But Englund does not work at
Westinghouse as part of a nuclear
refueling team any longer.
Instead, Englund teaches here at
Behrend as part of the MET
(mechanical engineering tech
nology) associate degree and
program.
Basically, Englund teaches
machine design.
"It comes naturally (to me) to
teach machine design,” Englund
said. "My background and
interest in the product tends to
color my teaching."
According to him, Englund
loves design work and has always
wanted to teach.
"To take someone who doesn't
know anything about a subject is
a design project of its own," he
said.
Englund said he thinks when
teaching he causes people
students to see: to understand
what the material he is teaching
is good for.
Though he does not consider
himself a theorist, Englund said
he thinks he is connected to
industry instead.
See ya Monday
by Paul M. Marini
ColUgiem Stqff
The Health and Wellness
Center isn’t open on the
weekends.
“There are two reasons why we
do not have hours on Saturday
and Sunday," said Patty Pasky-
McMahon. “First is because
there is no utilization. Second, it
was not cost effective to have a
registered nurse when there was
no one coming in.”
The Health and Wellness
Center has a staff consisting of a
full-time nurse, Pasky-
McMahon, and a physician who
is on campus on Wednesday and
Thursday from 1-4 pjn.
The center’s hours are from 8
a.m.-lO p.m. Monday through
Thursday and from 8 ajn.-9 p.m.
on Friday. When the Health and
Wellness Center is not open, any
phone calls made to it are
rerouted to Police and Safety.
Pasky-McMahon is a nurse
practitioner, which means she can
diagnose and prescribe
medication.
However, she said, the serious
cases are left for the physician.
©n average, the Health and
Wellness Center gets ISO to 200
people a week, and added that the
last time the center was open oh
"It's how you make a product,
not the background leading up to
that. The heart of the tech
program is practical design of a
product," Englund said.
Before coming to Behrend,
Englund not only worked for
Westinghouse, but he also
worked in the paper making
industry.
Hired by a local industry in
Erie, Englund's work is a major
part of some factories.
"One of the things that I have
designed is here in Erie. It is a
pollution control for a particular
company. Nobody has ever seen
it, and nobody has ever worked
on it. If anything ever goes
wrong with it, there could be a
very big problem," he said.
Even though his work is in
many factories, Englund does not
consider himself a normal design
engineer.
"Most design engineers are
desk jockeys; they never see the
customer's operation. I've been
on sales calls and service calls.
I've seen the manufacturing shoe
where the machine is actually
being built. I'm just not a
normal design engineer," he said.
Englund said he likes to get
involved with the customer's
operation which most design
engineers do not do. He said that
others will only stay on the
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CLOSED FOR THE WEEKEND: The Health and W.Mness
Center closes its doors on weekends; no nurses work on
campus Saturday and Sunday.
weekends was
academic year.
“You can’t expect us to get
sick only Monday through
Friday,” said Greg Itle, a second
semester chemical engineering
nuyor.
the 1991-92
“You get sick other days than
weekdays,” said Dave Meyer, a
second semester DUS student
outside of the customer's
operation.
Englund's work even follows
him on family vacations when he
said he finds himself looking at
bridges and factories.
According to him, some of
these things are the tools and
products of days gone by.
Englund encourages students to
take a look at what historically
existed.
MET majors must also be
prepared to be productive
immediately following graduation
said Englund.
According to him, the
difference between the MET
major and an engineering major
is the MET major is more hands
on work whereas engineering
focuses more on math, theory,
and science.
But the MET field is not
expanding. Englund said that it
is hard for a MET graduate to find
a job right now.
"There is no one breaking
down the door," he said.
Even with the low job
outlook, Englund said the MET
field is still interesting. But do
not go into the field for the
money he said.
"Don't pick a major based on
what people say, or the job
outlook, or even the money; but
instead what you like to do," he
said.
“When we were open on
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m„
most of the weeks had zero
utilization. The highest number
(of patients) seen was between 1
to 2 students on a Saturday,”
Pasky-McMahon said. “We’re
willing to meet the students’
needs and we hope to hear some
response from your (this) article.”
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