Technical Achievement
Jerry F. Shoup, Ph.D. has been selected by the Central Pennsylvania Engineers Week Council to receive the 2012 Technical Achievement Award. Jerry is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is employed with Penn State Harrisburg - Capital College.
Dr. Shoup and his wife, Sylvia, reside in Palmyra. They have a daughter and two sons: Cynthia who lives in Washington, D.C., Martin who lives in Leesburg, VA, and David, who lives in York. Dr. Shoup holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Ohio University, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. He was formerly a member of the Central Pennsylvania Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in State College, PA where he served as secretary/treasurer, vice president, and president. He is now a member of the Harrisburg Section of the IEEE. He is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and a Life Member of the American Society of Engineering Education. Dr. Shoup is also a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
Dr. Shoup began his full-time employment with the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) as a design engineer doing underwater research and development for the U.S. Navy in State College, PA. One major project that he worked on at ARL was an underwater target-centered tracking system. He also conducted research on long shelf life batteries. In 1971, he accepted a teaching position at Penn State Harrisburg (PSH), teaching courses in electrical engineering, computer science, and engineering mechanics. In the mid 1980’s he took on the position of Program Chair for the B.S.E.E.T. program. Later a B.S. in E.E. was added under his leadership with the first B.S.E.E. graduates in 2000. He was tapped to head the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology (SSET) at PSH in July, 2010. Currently SSET has over 600 majors in 10 BS programs in computer science, engineering, engineering technology, mathematics, and science. SSET also offers eight masters degree programs in computer science, electrical engineering, engineering science, engineering management, and environmental engineering. There are about 50 full-time faculty, 18 adjunct faculty, 11 support staff, and six people in the Recycling Markets Center. The SSET supplies courses for over 1500 students in other campus majors. The courses are in astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, and general science.
Dr. Shoup was a consultant for Buell Envirotech in the 1970s. There he designed a solid state control system for cleaning a large industrial electrostatic precipitator and holds a joint patent for “Electrostatic Electrode Cleaning System” with P. Gelfand and R. Carpenter. He also was on a design team with P. Gelfand and C. Mason that received a patent for a “Thyristor Controller for an Electrostatic Precipitator.”
At Penn State University, he has served on many committees a few of which are:
- Penn State Berks Campus, Engineering and Engineering Technology
- Penn State Wilkes-Barre Campus, Engineering and Engineering Technology
- Engineering Technology Faculty Subcommittee, PSU
- Faculty Advisory Committee on Academic Computing, PSU
- College of Engineering Representative at University Park, PSU (until 2010)
- Coordinated the PSH PA Dept. of Education engineering equipment grant for SSET 2003 – 2006
- Internship Coordinator for the SSET, (Fall 2004 to Summer 2010)
- Uniform Course Abbreviations Committee (UCA) Group for EE, (Fall 2005 to Summer 2008)
- UCA Group for Engineering Technology (Fall 2005 to Summer 2008)
- UCA Group for Electrical Engineering Technology (Fall 2005 to Summer 2008)
- Was Rapporteur for ET and EET UCA Groups (Fall 2005 to Summer 2008)
- Served on the Associate Degree EET Program Coordination Committee, PSU
- Information Systems and Technology Committee, Capital College
- Have served on numerous search committees and strive to ensure selection of diverse candidates
- Assisted IEEE Student Branch in organizing and conducting several forums regarding program curricular activities such as the Technical Electives forum and the regular fall and spring SSET forum to obtain student feedback for improvements to the programs, school, college, and the university
- Academic advisor for the College’s Atlantis-FIPSE student exchange program for students going abroad to study at Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany and for the corresponding exchange students who come to Penn State Harrisburg from Germany
- As program chair for EE & EET Programs, advised an average of 90 students per year
Service to the public, industry, and other institutions
- Ohio University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Fall 2004 to present)
- Harrisburg Area Community College’s Electronic Engineering Technology Industrial Advisory Committee (1983 to 2010)
- Serve on a joint articulation and marketing of programs committee for HACC & PSH
- In 2010 was member of a team that developed a student exchange, faculty exchange, and research collaboration with the Nitte Trust that has academic locations in Nitte, Mangalore, and Bangalore, India
- Served as a judge for engineering projects at the Capital Region Science and Engineering Fair March 5, 2009 at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg
- Coordinated the Friday, March 20, 2009, evening activities for the 115 students who participated in the Pennsylvania State MATHCOUNTS Competition at the Sheraton Hershey Hotel
- Chair of the Zoning Hearing Board, North Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, PA
- Past Chair of Audio/Video Ministry, Palm Lutheran Church for over 30 years.