Dr. Siegfried "Zig" Herzog

E-mail hgn@psu.edu Phone 717.749.6209 Fax 717.749.6069 Office Location Room 7, Bookstore Building Snail-mail Dr. Siegfried "Zig" Herzog Penn State University at Mont Alto Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering 1 Campus Drive Mont Alto, PA 1723 Current Office Hours and Daily Schedule

Organizationally speaking, I am a member of SETAPP, the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, which is part of the College of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) .
Physically, I am located at the Mont Alto Campus of Penn State University. If you need directions, please click here.

For the engineering students at Mont Alto I put together a short summary of all the different majors the College of Engineering and the Harrisburg Captial College offer.(click here)

Teaching

Over the years I have taught quite a few courses in different areas, all of which have a web presence :

	E Mch 211 : Statics
	E Mch 212 : Dynamics
	E Mch 213 : Strength of Materials
	ME 300 : Engineering Thermodynamics
	EDSGN 100 : Engineering Design & Graphics
	CMPSC 101 : Introduction to Algorithmic Processes
	CMPSC 201 : Computer Programming for Engineers Using C++
	IST 240 : Introduction to Programming Languages
	IST 250 : New Media and the Web
	Math 220 : Matrices (under construction)
	Math 230 : Calculus III

Education

	Diplom Engineur	1967	Technical University in Munich, Germany
	Ph.D.	1989	Cornell University, NY

Research Interests

	Dependence of the pure quadrupole resonance frequency on temperature for KBRO2 (Postscript, 2003)
	Prime Numbers and Prime Gaps
	Participant in the Goldbach Conjecture Verification Project
	Mathematical Simulation of Stirling Engines (includes web-base computer programs)

Undergraduate Research

In engineering, undergraduate research is conducted by freshmen and sophmore students and is tailored to the abilities of the individual student. At times a group of students conducts research or tackles design projects, mostly under the auspices of the local engineering club Past Projects Converting a lawnmower gasoline engine to run on propane (Spring 2003) Designing and Building a magnetic torquer for Penn State's nano satellite project LIONSAT. (Spring 2004) Current Projects Measuring the viscosity of diesel, biodiesel, and vegetable oil as function of temperature. Investigating the droplet formation of a diesel engine injector using diesel, biodiesel, and vegetable oil. Proposed Projects Students may feel free to bring their own proposals to me and I will try to accomodate to the best of my abilities. In addition, I like to persue the following projects : Design, build, and test an LTD Stirling Engine, possibly interface with a data acquisition system Design, build, and test an Stirling Engine running as a heat pump, possibly interface with a data acquisition system

My personal life

Sure I have one. For quite a few years we had three different nationalities in my family. My wife Jane (who is a full-fledged registered nurse) and youngest son Matthew were Americans, my two oldest sons Jan and Eric were citizen of India and I was a citizen of Germany. We have solidified the situation though and are now all Americans living in tiny Chambersburg, PA.

There is not much time for hobbies with three young children and a wife. But I manage to keep up my running I do for fun and stress relief for more than 40 years now ( marathon in 1993, 1996, 2000 ) . I also have a nice vegetable/fruit garden and enjoy fixing/building everything around our house and cars.

Send a Note to Zig (That's my nick name)
Zig Herzog; hgn@psu.edu
Last revised: 01/16/08