Currently, Prof. Sztandera serves as Philadelphia University Commerce leader in the College o Design, Engineering, and Commerce. He draws on his experience in the development and delivery of innovative curricula to facilitate crafting of cross disciplinary projects.  Prof. Sztandera’s cross-disciplinary work to encourage the inclusion of knowledge management principles and competences in undergraduate education led to the NSF grant award through the Division of Undergraduate Education in 1996. Since joining Philadelphia University in 1993, Prof. Sztandera has been involved in a number of course and curricula development. He developed a sequence of courses coupled with laboratory assignments in which students worked with real life problems. In 2004 he was instrumental in developing a Business Plus program for entering freshman. A special feature of Business Plus was the involvement of students and the courses with a local company. Students completed an integrated end of fall semester project that involved analysis and presentation of company financial data and a comparison of that data to competitors.  In the spring semesters, student teams from Business Plus worked on a business plan for an actual new product being considered by the company.

Complementary with his teaching effort, Prof. Sztandera has been involved in a variety of research activities. His research was funded, among others, by DoD, DoC, NSF, state Supercomputer Centers, and American Heart Association. He has delivered papers, seminars, and workshops, and published widely on knowledge management issues.