Meet the Faculty

Meet the Faculty

Meet the faculty members for CAD/SolidWorks Certificate, which is part of the Engineering Technology program area.

Kamyar Pashayi

Kamyar Pashayi, PhDAssistant Professor and Chair, Engineering Technology

Dr. Kamyar Pashayi is a NY licensed Professional Engineer (PE), and a 2012 PhD graduate of Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. After graduation, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University at Harrisburg as a faculty member. Besides his teaching background, he has worked in aerospace and boiler and pressure vessel manufacturing companies for over 6 years. He is truly dedicated to the advancement of engineering technology and recently became an Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) – ABET program evaluator. He believes that a student will excel with persistence, determination, and hard work. He encourages his students to be creative and confident. These are the values that he had as a student, and he hopes to pass these values on to his students.

Wallace Scott

Wallace (Penn) ScottLecturer

Wallace Scott teaches Computer Aided Design and Rapid Prototyping topics, having worked in the manufacturing and manufacturing software industries since 2014. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Lehigh University in 2014 and worked at Ingersoll Rand / Trane Technologies until 2018, serving in engineering and product management roles there. Scott then studied full-time at Carnegie Mellon University and earned his Master of Business Administration in 2020 while also contributing to a CAD & Rapid Prototyping course across campus in the School of Computer Science. Scott is currently employed in the Boston area by Altair Engineering, a simulation software company whose software he began using as an engineering undergraduate.

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