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Professor Finne
Professor Finne came to Middlesex County College in 1999 after a 30 year career as an engineer. He graduated from Lehigh University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and followed this up with a MS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. He holds a New Jersey Professional Engineers license.
During his career Professor Finne worked as an engineer and in engineering management for several pharmaceutical companies. In these capacities he was responsible for the design and construction of several pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities as well as custom manufacturing equipment and systems. He was also responsible for overseeing the routine maintenance and some of the validation activities in these facilities. This was a rich area of engineering that required a broad range of engineering skills. He would consider himself a “Jack of all trades”. An engineer needs to be conversant in a wide range of technical areas.
At Middlesex County College Professor Finne teaches a broad range of courses, primarily Electrical Engineering Technology but also Physics and Computer Science. While at Middlesex he has earned additional graduate credits in Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His favorite courses are Introduction to Microcomputers and Design and Manufacturing.
Professor Finne’s teaching approach tends to be “hands-on”. He is a tinker with skills in woodworking and some machine tool operation. He has a couple of antique cars, one for driving and one that he is restoring so these skills come in handy. He has mentored a FIRST Robotics team, Team 136 from Plainfield High School, for 10 years and has, hopefully, passed along some of his hands on design skills to these young students.
Professor Stickler
Professor Stickler came to Middlesex County College in 2002 after a 30+ year career as an engineer. He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.
As a practicing engineer from 1968 to 2001, Professor Stickler worked in many different fields. At GE he analyzed vibrations and thermal stresses in steam turbines. For several years he worked for an aerospace company analyzing the motion of earth orbiting satellites and the control systems that keep them correctly oriented in space. As an engineer at John Deere he held several positions in the engine engineering department.
Professor Stickler moved to NJ in 1977 to work for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, where he worked until “retirement” in 2001. At Bell Labs his assignments included traditional electronic packaging and manufacturing support, supervising a team of electrical, mechanical and field support engineers responsible for the on-going support of an existing product line, and supporting engineers responsible for working with outside suppliers to develop a line of voice messaging systems.
Professor Stickler teaches traditional mechanical engineering courses (AutoCAD, Statics, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics) along with Introduction to Technology and several other courses. He is curriculum coordinator for the Engineering Science program.
His technical interests include statics, dynamics and the use of software to solve engineering problems.
Professor Jack L.Waintraub
Professor Jack L.Wintraub is a member of the Engineering Technologies Department with teaching responsibilities primarily of Electrical Engineering and Technology courses. He holds an AAS degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from the College of Aeronautics, a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey.
Prof. Waintraub has taught Engineering and Engineering Technology courses at the College of Aeronautics, The College of New Jersey, and Thomas A. Edison College. In the past he served as Department Chairperson of the Electrical Engineering Department at MCC for twenty six years and taught courses in Electrical/Electronics, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science.
He has extensive experience working as an engineer in industry in the areas of Electronic Communication and Electronic Controls, and as an Engineering and Engineering Education Consultant in the areas of Curriculum Development, Accreditation, and textbook Publishing. He also served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Division of Undergraduate Education, and as Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education-a NSF sponsored Center of Excellence. Prof. Waintraub is the co-author of several textbooks, handbooks, and author of numerous articles.
He delivered over 200 presentations at professional seminars, workshops, and meetings, nationally and internationally. He served in various leadership positions of the Engineering Technology Division and the Engineering Technology Council of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (TAC/ABET).
Professor Waintraub is the ASEE 2002 recipient of the Fredrick J. Berger Award for Excellence in Engineering Technology Education. He is also a Fellow of ASEE and a Senior Member of IEEE.
