Ph.D. Univ. of Hawaii: Political Economy and Technology Policy
Research Interests
Broadband and Internet policy; financial technologies and news for sustainable development; monetary policy and global green finance, spreadsheet and blockchain ledger technology, ICT policy, geopolitical risk and economic development, information economics, global communications; sensing technologies for disaster risk reduction
Biography
Born in New York and on the faculty of New York University for most of his career, Dr. Pennings is happy to represent SUNY in Korea. Previously, he taught at Hannam University in Daejeon, Republic of Korea and in the Digital MBA program at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas. He began his teaching career at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand in 1993 and his research career at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii where he co-authored Computerization and Development in Southeast Asia (1987) and The FedWatcher Handbook (2015).
Teaching
EST 202 Introduction to Science and Technology
EST 230 Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development
EST 240 Visual Rhetoric and Information Technology
EST 320 Communications Technology Systems
EST 371 Data Science Management
EST 372 Mobile Technologies in Development
EST 392 Engineering and Management Economics
EST 441 Senior Research Project
EST 530 Internet Electronic Commerce
EST 699 Dissertation Research
Past and Present Research
ICT and development, digital money and economics, spreadsheet and blockchain ledger technology, history of financial technology, satellite sensing technology.