Jerome Tapper, MSIS, PE

Associate Academic Specialist     Electrical Engineering Technology Office: 471 Snell Engineering Center Phone: 617.373.3813 Fax: 617.373.2501 E-mail: jtapper@coe.neu.edu

Education

• PE Control Systems, Massachusetts
• MS (1998) Information Systems, Northeastern University
• BS (1970) Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University
• AS (1966) Electrical Engineering Technology, Massachusetts Bay Community College

Teaching Areas

• Electrical Engineering Technology
• Analog Electronics
• Digital Electronics
• Industrial Control Systems
• General Engineering Technology
• Computer Applications for Technology

Description of Research and Education Area

Having spent over twenty years in industry as an Electrical/Controls Engineer and Consultant has aided greatly my ability to bring realism and experience to the classroom when teaching in several of the areas that are of closest interest to me, specifically Analog and Digital Electronics and Industrial Control Systems. I have also spent a good deal of time designing automation and control systems for companies in the automotive, appliance, and process industries. Other areas of interest are; active circuits – filters, oscillators, instrumentation amplifiers, Programmable Logic Controllers and Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI). Over the past several years I have developed a world class Industrial Control Systems laboratory, the first of its kind at Northeastern University. This two-course sequence teaches young engineers how to design a variety control systems for automation utilizing very sophisticated industrial control system hardware and software components. It affords students a means of direct “hands-on” education like none other.

Professional Activities

• Currently serving a second two-year term as an Ad-Hoc member on the Engineering Technology Division (ETD) board of directors as its “Activities Person”
• Member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
• Presented papers at numerous ASEE Annual Conferences and CIEC affiliated conferences on the pedagogy of Engineering Technology Education.
• Member – (Eta-Kappa-Nu) honor society
• Honorary member – (Tau-Alpha-Pi) honor society

Awards

• Northeastern University President’s Aspiration Award (2003)
• American Society for Engineering Education New England Section Outstanding Teaching Award (2003)
• Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award (1999)
• Northeastern University College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (1997)
• Lowell Institute School at Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award (1995)
• Lowell Institute School at Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award (1994)