After earning his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pennington received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. Because electronic devices are being manufactured in smaller and smaller dimensions, Pelz says fundamental research on how materials behave at the atomic scale will be increasingly important to the electronics industry. He received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. After a postdoctoral appointment at IBM, Pelz came to Ohio State in September 1990. He has taught several undergraduate courses, including introduction to physics for engineers and introduction to physics for pre-professionals.
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