Dr. Jennifer L. Dawson
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA 17403
Kinsley Engineering Center 106
Phone: 717-815-1520
Fax: 717-849-1621
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Dr. Jennifer L. DawsonAssistant ProfessorMechanical EngineeringYork College of PennsylvaniaYork, PA 17403 Kinsley Engineering Center 106 Phone: 717-815-1520 Fax: 717-849-1621 |
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About me...I grew up near San Francisco in Burlingame, CA. I first became interested in engineering during my 8th grade science class. I had a fantastic teacher, Mr. Wedeking, who assigned design projects and spent hours after school teaching me programming. The summer after 8th grade I saw the movie Apollo 13 and I was hooked. I wanted to be one of those people who could "make this, fit into the hole for this, using nothing but that." As an undergraduate, I attended Bucknell University where I became passionate about undergraduate engineering education. Inspired to pursue a faculty career at a primarily teaching institution, I earned my Masters and PhD from Stanford University in mechanical engineering and then joined the faculty of York College summer semester 2008. I have diverse teaching and research interests which include mechanical design, dynamics and controls, robotics, and spacecraft design. In my free time I enjoy skiing, cooking, traveling, participating in community service activities, and playing cello. My husband, Scott, works in business intelligence at Miltex, a biotech company here in York.
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Scott and me in Florence (September 2008)
Stanford graduation with my research group (June 2008)
In Mexico building houses for people living in poverty (April 2007)
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