Full-time Faculty
Dr. Rujirutana Mandhachitara
[email protected] | 724-334-6769 | 106 Administration Building
Dr Mandhachitara, Associate Professor of marketing, graduated from college (cum laude) at age 19. She then joined a global corporation's (Diegeo Moet Hennessy) five-year executive development program during which time she also completed her Master of Science in Marketing in the evenings. She was awarded a prestigious scholarship for doctoral studies in marketing. During her Ph.D studies she won three international scholarships by essay competitions to study for a semester each at the University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University. She also won the Most Outstanding Paper prize at the 2002 Thailand Research Fund annual conference and the Best Paper Award at the Academy of Marketing Science’s Global Marketing Conference in 2011.
She is a highly productive researcher with 15 international blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles and 21 refereed conference papers. Dr. Mandhachitara is in demand as a reviewer of academic papers submitted to journals for publication. She continues to maintain her academic connections with Thailand through on-going Ph.D dissertation supervision. In addition to scholarly research, she is very heavily involved in services activities with both campus committees and external initiatives. She is a director of the Pittsburgh chapter of Zonta, a charitable organization originally associated with aviator Amelia Earhart.
Dr. Mandhachitara’s greatest love is teaching and her students seem very appreciative of her efforts to go the extra mile in both classroom preparation and execution. She received the Excellence in Teaching award at Penn State New Kensington in 2011.
Frank A. Santimauro
[email protected] | 724-334-6743 | 17B Conference Center
Frank A. Santimauro is a lecturer in Business at the Pennsylvania State New Kensington, where he has taught management, marketing, finance, statistics, economics, and other courses since fall of 2000. He has a BSBA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1990, management major, accounting and economics minor) and an MBA from Duquesne University (1993, finance and economics concentration). For eight years prior to joining the faculty at Penn State he served as an adjunct faculty member for Community College of Allegheny County (Boyce campus), Robert Morris University, and Duquesne University where he taught business law, college algebra, production management, entrepreneurship, and human resource management. His consulting experience includes serving numerous small- and medium-sized businesses in southwestern Pennsylvania where he worked with manufacturers, retailers, distributors and service providers to develop business plans, marketing strategies, accounting systems, financing sources, and other business related projects. He also developed and presented various business seminars to entrepreneurs in the Pittsburgh region, community business leaders in Beaver County, business students at Geneva College, and an envoy of manufacturing managers from Russia at Duquesne University. Also during the years prior to joining Penn State, Mr. Santimauro developed the backbone of his career as the owner of CAR-1, a small business in the Pittsburgh region providing sales and service to the automotive industry.