Registered Professional Engineer, C. Rowe Fellow, NASA Certificate of Merit, World Automation Congress Technical Fellow, three-time Judge R&D Magazine's Top 100 Developments, Tau Beta Pi, ISA,  and IEEE.

Former: Chief Engineer at Textron Systems, Principal Engineer at Eaton Corporation, Chief Scientist at the University of Texas and IEEE Division X Professional Activities Chairman.

Technical architect of projects with: Boeing, Guidant, Lockheed Martin, Medtronics, Merck, Michelin,  NASA, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Sciences, Raytheon, Whirlpool, US Air Force, Army, Navy and US DOE.

BSEE Rice University, MSME & PhD UT Austin, 35+ peer-reviewed publications, five copyrighted software systems, 3 US patents.

Rich with two-arm robot circa 1990
Rich with space station prototype two-arm robot circa 1993


Rich Hooper, PhD, PE
Software, Robotics and Computer Controlled Machines


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