James A. Kearns, Ph.D.
Meet James A. Kearns
Dr. Kearns began his teaching career in 1992 at the Universidad del Turabo in Puerto Rico, where he worked with a small group of faculty and staff to build and develop a completely new school of engineering. In addition to other duties, he was tasked with developing a curriculum on electromechanics. During those four years, Dr. Kearns spent his summers at Sandia National Laboratories as a University Fellow.
In 1996, Dr. Kearns was hired by York College of Pennsylvania to develop and build a new mechanical engineering program. In 2003, he was asked to develop a new electrical and computer engineering program, of which he served as program head until July 2010.
Throughout his professional career, Dr. Kearns has been focused on teaching and researching physical acoustics and electromechanical systems. His interest in electrical engineering began during his Ph.D. studies, when he built spark generators, DC power supplies, and signal amplifiers for his experiments. His steady pursuit of electromechanical engineering education has been the hallmark of his professional career. Dr. Kearns has been involved in a variety of pedagogical activities, including the development and refinement of techniques in electrical engineering education.
Dr. Kearns is a member of IEEE and ASEE. He is active in faculty governance at York College, where he is a past chair of its Tenure and Promotion committee and its Student Welfare committee. Dr. Kearns also served as Academic Senate Vice-President (2 years) and President (4 years.)
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Physical Acoustics
- Carnegie-Mellon University, M.E. in Combustion
- University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
- University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in Economics and Finance
- FYS115 Exploring Engineering
- ME270 Mechatronics
- ECE280 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
- ECE310 Design and Analysis of Analog Circuits
- ECE400 Capstone Design
- Direct methods in higher-order circuit analysis
- Outdoor Sound Propagation
- Acoustic Diffraction Phenomena
- James Kearns and Giorgio Rizzoni, Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2022
- James Kearns and Giorgio Rizzoni, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2022
- Eleanor Leung and James Kearns, Using a Hyflex Learning Format in a Second-year Mechatronics Course, Proceedings of the ASEE, 2022
- James Kearns and Jennifer Owrutsky, A Direct Method of determining the Natural Frequency and Dimensionless Damping Coefficient of any 2nd-order Circuit, Proceedings of the ASEE, 2021
- James Kearns and Giorgio Rizzoni, Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2016