Faculty

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.

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 Chemistry 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, 1972, 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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