Grebski Receives MET Grant Students in the Penn State Hazleton Campus Mechanical Engineering Technol ogy program will have new state-of-the-art software programs in computer aided design and manufacture, thanks to a grant from the CADKEY Corporation to Dr. Wieslaw Grebski, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. The gift from the CADKEY Corpo ration, with a commercial value of $262,125, included CADKEY ANALYSIS, CADKEY Cutting Edge, CADKEY SOLIDS, and DataCAD, as well as technical assistance for one year. This grant will enable students in A Mime is a Terrible Thing to Waste On Wednesday, October 27, at 8:00 p.m. at the Penn State Hazleton Campus, in the Commons Building, Trent Arterberry will perform a show of mime and motion. Trent Arterberry began his career in the 1970’s when he left his pre-med studies at UCLA to become a mime’s apprentice. He eventually studied under the renowned French master, Marcel Marceau. Arterberry devel oped his own distinctly American style-bold, Smialek Makes Beautiful Music Through Computers Thomas Smialek, assistant professor of Integrative Arts and Music has been recog nized for his work in use of multimedia teach ing and learning techniques. Smialek’s use of computer technology in teaching music at the campus represents an effective way to intro duce musical terminology and other concepts to undergraduate non-music majors. Using computers and screen presentations, linked to musical excerpts on compact disc, Smialek is able to demonstrate music and integrate re corded musical examples into visual presenta tions. Not only is this an effective way to teach more effectively, it adds to the interaction be tween Smialek and his students. Smialek first became interested in the use of computers and multimedia presenta tions in teaching music when he attended a Washington!). C. meetingoftheCollege Music the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program to have state-of-the-art equip ment and will better equip them for their careers in industry. Grebski has been very successful in obtaining grants for the engineering program. Several years ago, he received a grant from the VersaC AD Corporation of California, which was used in teaching advanced technical draft ing, product and production design, and other areas. Dr. Grebski has arranged for stu dents in the MET program to work in com puter aided design and manufacture projects imaginative, and to-the-point. By taking tra ditional mime and combining music, special effects, black light theater, and audience par ticipation, Arterberry has met a challenge and entertained half a million people in the pro cess. He has performed with Julio Iglesias’, Marvin Hamlish, 8.8. King, Spiro Gyro, and The Kinks. Arterberry has also received nu merous awards including an Emmy nomina tion, inclusion in * ‘Who’s Who in Entertain- Society in 1991 and saw the possibilities of combining computer technologies with com pact discs for teaching music appreciation. Smialek pursued his interest and, in 1991 received a grant fonn Penn State Computer- Based Educational learning to pursue this interest. The grant enabled Smialek to create lecture presentation that he is currently using in his Introduction of Western Music and Arts 1 courses at the Penn State Hazleton Campus. Smialek plans to create new versions of Mul timedia Lecture Ware for coursed offered by the Department, and to work with the faculty at the Penn State Hazleton Campus in helping them develop these techniques for use in other courses. Smialek’s research interests also in clude the early history of saxophone perfor mance in the United States; he recently pub lished a series of three articles on Clay Smith and G. E. Holmes, early 20th-century U.S. with industries throughout the northeast. The students in this program provide important support for the industries while adding to their total knowledge and experience in mechanical engineering. MET students also have an op portunity to develop individual projects which are reviewed and judged by the campus Indus trial Advisory Committee composed of repre sentatives from area industrial firms. Other achievements and honors be stowed on Dr. Grebski are the 1993/1994 George T. Bobby Award for Excellence in Academic Advising and 1984 Teacher of the Year Award. ment,” and Arterberry was named “Campus Performing Artists of the Year,” after hun dreds of college appearances. Arterberry’s most unusual assignment was posing with sharks and eels inside the Giant Ocean Tank of the New England Aquarium. This all goes to prove that there is almost no place Arterberry can’t perform, and almost no audience he can’t please. Trent Arterberry is a versatile entertainer who delights audiences of all ages. concert saxophone pioneers. Smialek is also the author of a number of articles that have appeared in the Saxophone Journal and the Saxophone Symposium and has presented papers and has done many performances around the country. The next concert by Smialek will be held in Room K-l of the Kostos Classroom Building at the Penn Slate Hazleton Campus on Saturday, January 22, 1994 at 8 p.m. The concert will include works for two saxophones and piano by 18th-ccntury Baroque composer Jean-Baptistc Loeillet, Japanese composer Ilirohisma Shono, and a new work by Ms. Logrande, composer and Smialck’s wife, en titled Harlequin of the Union. The accompa nist for this performance will be Holly Hughes, assistant professor of piano at the University of Florida. The public is invited to this perfor mance at no charge.
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