Full Name: Desmond N. Penny
Title: Professor of Engineering & Physics
Classes You Teach: Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Structural Analysis
Favorite Class to Teach: All of the above
Your Degrees and Where You Went to School: B.S. and M.S. from University College Cork, Ireland. Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Utah
Favorite Band or CD: Clannad
Favorite TV Show: Mystery on PBS
Favorite Book: "A Great Deliverance" by Elizabeth George
Favorite Movie: Chocolat
Favorite Food: Fish and Chips
Hometown: Limerick, Ireland
Favorite thing about SUU: Beautiful campus
Favorite thing to do in Cedar City: hike
Why You Chose to teach at SUU: It’s a beautiful area. The school has a lot to offer to students
"I love teaching in an institution where the students want to learn."
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