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Agenda | Faculty Bios | Workshop Description
Gordon F. Snyder, Jr. is Executive Director and Principal Investigator for NCTT at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), where he also serves as project director the Microsoft Working Connections grant program and manages curriculum development for networking. He has taught in the telecommunications, electronics systems, computer systems and laser electro-optics departments at STCC since 1984, and co-chaired those departments from 1990–1999. He helped develop the Verizon Next Step program and now serves as the New England telecommunications curriculum coordinator for the Verizon Next Step program. He was an adjunct instructor in the bioengineering department at Western New England College from 1989-1996 and is the author of two other engineering textbooks. He has extensive consulting experience in the field of communications and LAN/WAN design. He serves on several local and national boards including the Microsoft Community & Technical College Advisory Council and the National Skill Standards Board (NSSB) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Voluntary Partnership representing the telecommunications, computer, and information industry sector. In 2001 he was selected as one of the top fifteen technology faculty in the United States by the American Association of Community Colleges and Microsoft Corporation. Snyder received dual Bachelor of Science degrees in microbiology and medical technology from University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Master of Science in electrical engineering from Western New England College.
| Gary Mullett, Co-Principal Investigator for NCTT, is a professor of electronics technology at STCC. At NCTT, he is responsible for overseeing curriculum development initiatives in the area of wireless telecommunications and virtual laboratories. He has extensive consulting experience with the minicomputer and microwave/mm-wave manufacturing industries and RF/wireless communications industry. Mullett was principal investigator of an NSF/ATE project on Telecommunications and Networking and is the recipient of an NSF grant to develop a wireless telecommunications laboratory. He also serves as electronics curriculum coordinator for the Verizon Next Step program. He holds a bachelor of science and a master of science in electrical engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst. |  |
James N. Downing is the NCTT Co-Principal Investigator of Photonics at NCTT and is responsible for the Center’s photonics curriculum.
Downing is an Assistant Professor of Telecommunication Technologies at Springfield Technical Community College. He served as Chair and revitalized the Electronics and Computer Technology program at Holyoke Community College from 1997 to 2000, and has taught both graduate and undergraduate classes at Western New England College prior to coming to STCC. He is also teaching for the Verizon Next Step program. Downing received the NISOD Award for teaching excellence in 2001.
Downing has authored several professional journal articles and is currently writing the Fiber Optic Communications text in the NCTT five-part telecommunications series.
Prior to his teaching career, Downing worked in industry for ten years. At Geo-Centers, Inc. Downing was a Senior Systems/Instrumentation Engineer and developed and tested fiber optic based sensor systems for chemical and pressure sensing. While at Galileo Electro-Optics Corporation, he ran a fiber optic characterization lab and later served as an electro-optics development engineer. At Galileo, Downing received a commendation for his work in infrared fiber-based instrumentation systems. Downing holds memberships in the IEEE, SPIE and OSA.
Downing holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering from Western New England College and is currently enrolled in the electrical engineering doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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