Damon Rarick is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German with degrees in German and Physics whose research and teaching interests include applied language instruction, educational technology, technology and engineering, German language pedagogy, business and scientific German, and interdisciplinary manifestations of 20th century German literature.

For the past three years, he has offered a workshop on Teaching Languages to Engineering Students with Walter von Reinhart at this colloquium.  The workshop has added another member to its team this year--Hartmut Rastalsky of the University of Michigan.  

Before joining the International Engineering Program faculty in 1998, Dr. Rarick taught at Brown University, the Brown Learning Community, the Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik, and Stonehill College and has been a Summer Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary Germany Studies (AICGS) in Washington, DC and at the University of California in Berkeley.   He also has extensive experience with a wide range of computing platforms, applications, and instructional technologies which he uses to support the academic missions of the IEP and the University of Rhode Island.

Updated: 10/07/2003