Robert J. Herrick
The Robert A. Hoffer Distinguished Professor of Teaching
Purdue University

Robert J. Herrick is Purdue University's Robert A. Hoffer Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology and Teaching. He has been recognized with national, regional, university, school, and department awards for outstanding teaching and professional service. He has been active in promoting outstanding teaching and education through his leadership in ASEE, IEEE, and the Frontiers in International Education Conference; his teaching-the-teachers workshops at national conferences and special workshops, his leadership in the Purdue University Teaching Academy; and publications on education. He is the senior member of the Purdue University's Murphy Award Committee that selects Purdue University's most outstanding undergraduate teachers. The Murphy Award is a lifetime award that Professor Herrick received in 1993. He was honored in becoming a Purdue University Distinguished Professor in 1996. He is a professor and department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University where he has taught circuits and analog electronics for the past thirteen years. His former experience includes nine years of teaching and faculty leadership with the University of Toledo while also serving as a consulting engineer for major industry; thirteen years as a full-time design and development engineer with AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories and with ITT's Advanced International Technology Center; and service in the U.S. Air Force in navigational aides electronics technology. Prof. Herrick combines his rich engineering and technical experiences with an educational approach to education that engages students in an active learning process that has been extraordinarily successful with his students.

Professor Herrick, along with Professor Jacob, will lead a workshop on the Art and Technology of Teaching Technology.