John Schneider John is a caring instructor who motivated students to seek out a deeper understanding of the engineering disciplines he teaches and those same felt comfortable obtaining guidance from him about career goals and personal concerns, noted Dr. Robert Loeb, director of Academic Affairs at the campus. He will be sorely missed by his colleagues and his students. As he recently reflected on nearly two decades of teaching, Schneider said he takes personal satisfaction in knowing he has helped prepare many students for lifetime careers. The great thing about teaching is being able to educate young people so they can have successful careers. Our engineering technology programs are terrific, he said.
Students come here out of high school, and two years later they start careers.
A native of DuBois, Schneider earned a bachelor s degree in industrial engineering from Penn State in 1958. He is a licensed professional engineer in Pennsylvania and a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. After college, he spent several years in the U.S. Army at its missile design facility in Huntsville, Alabama. While at Allied Chemical, he developed a production cycle time-control charting method that was featured in Plastics Engineering magazine in the United States, and was later published in China Plastic and Rubber Journal in mainland China. He also taught the technique at the campus.