Contact Information:

Office: 265 CTB
Brigham Young University
Provo,UT 84602
Phone:(801) 422-6305
Email: richard_helps@byu.edu

Background:

Richard Helps has been a faculty member in the School of Technology since 1986. Member of IEEE, ACM, ASEE, SIGITE. He is also a CAC-ABET and a TAC-ABET program evaluator. He spent ten years in industry as a control systems design engineer. His primary scholarly interests are include: embedded and real-time computing with its instrumentation and control aspects and also in technology education.

He was born and raised in South Africa and is the father of 5 children.

Education:

Degree of Electrical Engineer. Univ. of Utah 1993. (Professional graduate degree).

MSc (Eng) Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 1986.

BSc (Eng). Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 1978.

Technician's diploma in telecommunications. (3 year Associate degree). Olifantsfontein Technical College, South Africa. 1974

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Lunt, Barry M., Wilder, Paul J., Helps, C. Richard G, "Attracting and Retaining Faculty in Engineering Technology Programs: A Study of Motivating Factors Among Faculty" Journal of Engineering Technology 21, No. 1, pp30-35, January 2004

Waks, S. and Helps, C.R.G. " Dimensions in Electronics Education Change", International Journal for Engineering Education, v20n1, pp83-90 January 2004.

Helps, C. Richard G., Michael G. Bailey, "Assessing Information Validity in an Internet Age", Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 2249.

Helps, C. Richard G, "Free and Open Source Computer Software in Manufacturing", Proceedings EMCW 2004 Technical Conference

Helps, C. Richard G, "The Unified Modeling Language Provides Insights into Notation Systems for Instructional Design", Proceedings of the Institute Of Professional Engineering Technologists (IPET) Research Conference, 2004, Pretoria, South Africa.

Helps, C. Richard G, Mark Patterson, "Evaluation of Cooperative Competition as an Educational Strategy in Project-Oriented Technology Education", Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Session 2249.

Helps, C. Richard G and Renshaw S.tephen R., "Design of a Flexible Case-Study Instructional Module for Operating Systems for Information Technology", Proceedings, ACM-SIGITE 2004

Helps, C. Richard G. "Teaching Embedded Systems: From Eight Bits to Operating Systems and Networks" Session3647, Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Montreal 2002.

Helps, C. Richard G, J. J. Ekstrom, "Developing flexible, Low-cost Networking Clusters for IT Lab Instruction" Session 261, Conference For Information Technology Curriculum III (CITC III), Rochester, New York, September 2002. Paper,

Helps, C. Richard G., "Paradigms and Scope of Engineering Technology Education", ASEE Annual Conference, June 2001, Session 3149.