 Damon
Rarick is an assistant professor of German at the University of
Rhode Island. His degrees in German and Physics have found
their symbiosis in the IEP, and his 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
five years, he has offered a workshop on Teaching
Languages to Engineering Students with Walter von
Reinhart at this colloquium. He is currently
developing the Online Journal of Global Engineering
Education (OJGEE), a unique peer-reviewed research
outlet for the cross-disciplinary and corporate
constituencies involved in creating, maintaining,
and growing global engineering education programs.
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.
He is currently president of the Rhode Island
chapter of the American Association of Teachers of
German and serves on the board of the Rhode Island
Foreign Language Association.
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