Thursday, March 4, 2021 - 2:10 pm CANTON -- SUNY Canton associate professor who inspires student invention has been promoted to assistant professor. Christopher M. Mayville started his career at SUNY Canton while he was enrolled in the college's Automotive Technology program. "When I was a student, I had a work study position in the Southworth Library in my freshman year and the Automotive Lab in my senior year," Mayville said. He recently earned the title of assistant professor within the Canino School of Engineering Technology. In his Automotive and Mechanical Engineering Technology courses, he aims to help students pursue their own ideas in a style similar to the way he learned.