Richard W. Heckel, PhD
Founder and Technical Director, Engineering Trends

Experience

Several decades of experience in statistical studies of engineering education using data from various surveys published by professional societies have provided him with a unique perspective on this subject. Since the late 1980s, his interests have expanded into the compilation of degree, enrollment, faculty and research expenditure data to provide valid predictions of future trends, thus establishing the framework for Engineering Trends.


Memberships

• American Society for Engineering Education (Member)
• Engineering Workforce Commission (Commissioner-At-Large)
• The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) (Life Member)
• ASM International (Fellow, Life Membership and Bradley Stoughton Young Teacher of Metallurgy Award)

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Materials Science and Engineering - BS 1955, MS 1958, PhD 1959

Career

1996-present: Professor Emeritus, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

1984: Visiting Professor at South China Institute of Technology, Guangzhou, The People's Republic of China

1987-90: On assignment to the US Department of Energy, Division of Materials Sciences, Germantown, MD

1976-96: Professor, Michigan Technological University, Materials Science and Engineering. Houghton, MI

1973-78: Member of the US-USSR Special Electrometallurgy Committee established by the Nixon-Brezhnev Détente Agreement in 1972

1971-76: Professor and Head, Carnegie Mellon University, Materials Science and Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA

1963-71: Professor, Drexel University, Materials Engineering, Philadelphia, PA

1959-63: Senior Research Metallurgist, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Experimental Station, Engineering Research Laboratory, Wilmington, DE