Gary R. Bertoline is Professor of Technical Graphics and head of the Department of Technical Graphics at Purdue University. He earned his B.S. degree in Industrial Technology at Northern Michigan University in 1974, M.Ed. in Industrial Technology at Miami University in 1979, and Ph.D. at The Ohio State University in Industrial Technology in 1987. His graduate work focused on the integration of CAD into engineering graphics and visualization. He has 20 years experience teaching graphics at all levels from elementary school to senior citizens. Professor Bertoline taught junior high and high school graphics at St. Henry High School, St. Henry, Ohio, drafting/design technology at Wright State University, Lake Campus, in Celina, Ohio, and engineering graphics at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Professor Bertoline has authored numerous publications, authored or co-authored seven textbooks and workbooks, and made more than 50 presentations throughout the world. He has won the Frank Oppenheimer Award three times for best paper at the Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-year Meeting. He has developed many graphics courses, including CAD, solid modeling, and multimedia, and has integrated many modern topics into traditional engineering graphics courses, such as modeling, animation, and visualization. Professor Bertoline has conducted research in cognitive visualization and was the co-author for a curriculum study in engineering graphics funded by SIGGRAPH. He is on the editorial board for the Engineering Design Graphics Journal and is the Irwin Graphics Series Editor. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the National Computer Graphics Association, Epsilon Pi Tau, and the National Association of Industrial Technology. He is a certified Industrial Technologist, recipient of the Orthogonal Medal for outstanding contributions to the advancement of Graphics Science by North Carolina State University in 1992, and the 1995 inaugural recipient of the Steven M. Slaby International Award for Outstanding Contributions in Graphics Education.
You can contact Dr. Bertoline at grbertol@tech.purdue.edu
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