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Brad Sottile

Assistant Teaching Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Computer Science and Engineering

W109P Westgate Building

bjs5332@psu.edu

814-865-0165

Personal or Departmental Website

Interest Areas:

Astrodynamics, engineering and higher education, engineering leadership, evolutionary computation, computational science, and game theory.

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011
  • MS, Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013
  • Graduate Certificate, Engineering Leadership and Innovation Management, The Pennsylvania State University, 2020
  • BS, Mathematics (Systems Analysis Option), The Pennsylvania State University, 2021

Publications

Journal Articles

Research Projects

  • May 2022 - December 2023, "Foundations in Professional Ethics: A College of Engineering Micro-Credential," (Sponsor: Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education).
  • June 2016 - May 2018, "Scaling for the Future: Development of a Sustainable Model for Teaching MATLAB Programming to STEM Students," (Sponsor: Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, College of Engineering).

Honors and Awards

Service

Service to Penn State:

  • Committee Work, Committee Member, Non-Tenure-Line Faculty Mentoring Committee, January 2022 - January 2022
  • Committee Work, Chairperson, Task Force on the Engineering First-Year Experience, May 2022
  • Assistance to Student Organizations, Faculty Advisor, Vertical Takeoff and Landing Club, March 2021 - May 2022
  • Assistance to Student Organizations, Faculty Advisor, Science Olympiad Alumni at Penn State, October 2020
  • Committee Work, Member, Office for General Education, General Education Faculty Scholar Subcommittee on Integrative Thinking, January 2020 - December 2020
  • Committee Work, Co-Chairperson, Office for General Education, General Education Faculty Scholar Subcommittee on Faculty Affairs, January 2019 - January 2020
  • Committee Work, Committee Member, Office for General Education, General Education Faculty Scholar Subcommittee on the General Education Hub, February 2018 - January 2019
  • Committee Work, Co-Chairperson, Office for General Education, General Education Faculty Scholar Subcommittee on Promotion and Tenure, February 2018 - January 2019
  • Committee Work, Other, Faculty Scholar, General Education Faculty Scholar, Office for General Education, November 2017 - December 2020
  • Committee Work, Member, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Undergraduate Advising Committee, August 2017 - December 2022
  • Participation in Recruitment and Retention Activities, Evaluator, Schreyer Honors College, Faculty Selection Committee, November 2017
  • Committee Work, Member, Ad Hoc Working Group on Engineering Graduate Degrees, February 2016 - May 2016
  • Assistance to Student Organizations, Faculty Advisor, Engineering Graduate Student Council (EGSC), September 2014 - September 2016

Service to External Organizations:

  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Other, Session Co-Moderator, American Society for Engineering Education, April 2022 - April 2022
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Other, Session Co-Moderator, American Society for Engineering Education, April 2022 - April 2022
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Other, Publicity Chair, American Society for Engineering Education, June 2022
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Member, Publicity Chair, Executive Board, American Society for Engineering Education, June 2022
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Other, Session Chairperson, American Society for Engineering Education, October 2017 - October 2017
  • Service to Governmental Agencies, Other, Intern, Space Scholar, Air Force Research Laboratory, May 2014 - August 2014
 


 

About

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was created in the spring of 2015 to allow greater access to courses offered by both departments for undergraduate and graduate students in exciting collaborative research fields.

We offer B.S. degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering and data science and graduate degrees (master's degrees and Ph.D.'s) in electrical engineering and computer science and engineering. EECS focuses on the convergence of technologies and disciplines to meet today’s industrial demands.

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The Pennsylvania State University

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University Park, PA 16802

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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Department of Electrical Engineering

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