Rich is a retired Air Force engineer with 20 years of service. He has more than thirty years of experience in a variety of engineering fields, primarily in aircraft structures, mechanical engineering design, composite materials, and the science of teaching and learning. He is an experienced educator with more than twenty years of teaching at engineering at the undergraduate level.
Effective teaching and learning in undergraduate engineering courses
Structural repair of damaged aircraft
Rich has more than twenty years of teaching experience at Stevens Institute of Technology as a graduate teaching assistant, in both the Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering departments at the US Air Force Academy, as an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), and here at CSU. He was also a Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) certified motorcycle safety instructor for nearly five years.
PhD – Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, 2004 – 2007
M.E. – Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1993 – 1995
B.E. – Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1989 – 1993
Outstanding Academy Educator, Mechanical Engineering (2012)
Air Force Senior Military Engineering of the year (2010)
Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Mentor