Richard E. Haskell is a professor of engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Oakland University's School of Engineering and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1963, and has been on the faculty at Oakland since 1966. He has worked for General Electric in Schenectady, NY., KMS Industries in Ann Arbor, and served as Director of Research and Development at Industrial Holographics, Inc., Auburn Heights, Michigan, while on leave from the University in 1977-78. In this position he was responsible for the development of microprocessor-based industrial controllers and advanced product development. He has also worked in government laboratories at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories and at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. He has consulted with several industrial firms in the areas of optical inspection, microprocessors, embedded control systems, and pattern recognition.

Professor Haskell's research interests have included plasma physics, holography and coherent optics, pattern recognition and image processing, computer learning, and microprocessor applications and embedded systems. Dr. Haskell was listed in the 1975 Edition of Outstanding Educators in America and is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America. His 1967 paper in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation was named one of the 10 best papers of the year to be published in that journal. In addition to his published research work, Dr. Haskell is the author of twenty-six books and holds six patents. He is a member of Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. 

June-September 1958-59 Engineering Inspector. New Hampshire State Highway Department, Concord, New Hampshire; inspected construction of highways and bridges.

June-September 1960 Electrical Engineer. General Engineering Laboratory, General Electric Co., Schenectady, New York; worked in the development and testing of tunnel diode and parametric amplifiers.

1961-1963 Research Assistant. Plasma Research Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; conducted research in the interaction of microwaves with anisotropic plasmas.

1963-1966 Plasma Physicist. Microwave Physics Laboratory, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Bedford, Mass.; conducted research in wave-plasma interactions. Monitored government contracts in the field of plasma physics.

1965-1966 Lecturer. (Part-time) Center for Continuing Education, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.; taught course in Plasma Dynamics.

August 1966-June 1968 Assistant Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

May-August 1968 Optical Engineer. KMS Industries, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan; development work in the area of coherent optics and optical data processing.

July 1968-June 1972 Associate Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

August 1972-June 1973 On leave at the NASA Johnson Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; developed optical and digital methods of processing multispectral data.

Sept.1977-August 1978 Director of Research and Development. Industrial Holographics, Inc., Auburn Heights, Michigan.

July 1972-Present Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.