School of Engineering and Technology

Department of Electrical Engineering

Bob Howard
Professor


Office: E&T A214
Phone: (323) 343-4465
FAX: (323) 343-4555________Email: howardrch@earthlink.net _


I accepted an appointment as an Adjunct Professor, doing preliminary design of the ABET
recently-mandated Senior Capstone Design. I came as an Associate Professor and was
promoted and tenured four years later in 1990. I entered the Faculty Early Retirement
Program in 1996, am an Emeritus Professor, and teach one third time.

I taught Digital Electronics, Microprocessor Assembly Language Programming,
a variety of laboratory courses, and Engineering Ethics and Professionalism
while developing the Senior Design course and its associated laboratories. For the
latter I received two substantial grants from Hughes Aircraft.

I am a Senior Life Member of the IEEE, an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, a member
of ASEE, the Society for Information Display, and also the Society for Engineering Ethics.

I have been chosen for membership of Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi,
Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi. I am listed in Who’s Who in Engineering and Technology.
I am a California Registered Professional Engineer in the Control Systems and the
Nuclear branches.

I have been granted 15 patents and Research Disclosures.

I received the AB in Mathematics and Physics from Whitman College and the MS
and PhD from Cal Tech.

I visited the Albanian University of Tirana in 1991. After seeing the pitiful state
of their technical library, textbooks, and laboratories, I formed BOOKS for
ALBANIA and collected 3500 pounds of reference and text books, magazines,
engineering parts, computers, soft ware, and general nontechnical materials.
Arranging to have all this shipped to Albania was almost as difficult as
collecting the materials.

I was born in Kansas, USA. In the depths of the depression we migrated
to California from the dust bowl along with the rest of the OK-ees.


Date

__Publications and Presentations
While serving CSULA
__

1997 "Why I am glad I was not born in England, or How do we help Inductive Thinkers get Engineering Degrees" ASEE-PSW 1997 Spring meeting, San Luis Obispo.
1997 "Fifty-One Mini Case Studies for Engineering Ethics and Profesionalism,"Frontiers of Education, Salt Lake City.
1994 "Why don’t They Understand What They Know, What to do about it!," ASEE IEEE Frontiers in Education, San Jose.
1994 "Independent Electrical and Computer Senior Capstone Design,"Pacific Southest Section ASEE, Sacramento.
1994 "A Modest Proposal for completely Modifying the Educational System from Grades Two through PhD,Using Modern Computer and Graphics Technology and Proven Age-Old Techniques," Cal State LA Facultly Colloquium.
1990 "In 2000 the Computer Graphics Revolution is over but Design Educators Lag Behind," Frontiers in Education ‘90, Vienna-Budapest.
1990 "Secular Mathematics and Its Engineering Consequences," ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal.
1990 "Piezoelectric Probes for Detection and Measurement of Vibration in Electromechanical System," Measurement Science Conference, Los Angeles.
1990 &quotSubsets of the Engineering Persona,"IEEE Potentials, December.
1989 "Tapping Technical Talent,"Personnel, (American Management Association), November.
1984 On Becoming and Engineer, Part I, The Impulse Function,"IEEE Potentials, December.
1985 On Becoming and Engineer, Part II, Staying Power,"IEEE Potentials, February.
1985 On Becoming and Engineer, Part III, Civic Responsibility,"IEEE Potentials, May.


Competitions

My design students twice took first place at the IEEE Ninth Region Wescon
Student Paper Competition. The Ninth Region extends from Hawii to Denver.


Spring 98 Schedule

CourseSect. No.TitleUnitsDay & TimeRoom
ENGR 301 1 Ethics and Professionalism 1 M 1:10-2:00 A208
EE 211 1 Electronics Lab 1 M 6:10-9:00 B105

Office Hours

DayTime
Monday2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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