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Dr. Russell J. Deaton

 

Russell Deaton

Executive Director of the Polytechnic@UofM
Chair, Department of Engineering Technology
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Herff College of Engineering

Phone: 901.678.3258

Email: rjdeaton@memphis.edu

Fax Office: 205 Engineering Science

 

Dr. Russell J. Deaton

Dr. Russell Deaton is the executive director of The Polytechnic@UofM, which is an academic unit at the University of Memphis that is focused on workforce preparation, innovative academic programs, and improving access to education in applied technology. He is also a professor of electrical and computer engineering and chair of the Department of Engineering Technology. He is the former chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and associate dean of the Herff College of Engineering. He has a BA in English from the University of North Carolina, a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Memphis, and an MS and PhD from Duke University. His research is in the self-assembly of new materials and recently has focused on circuit analysis of self-assembled structures with possible implications for axonal networks and topological insulators.

Learn more about Dr. Russell Deaton

  • BA in English from University of North Carolina
  • BSEE from Memphis State University
  • MSEE from Duke University
  • PhD from Duke University
  • Executive Director of the Polytechnic@UofM, Chair of Engineering Technology, Professor of EECE, 07/25-current
  • Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration, Herff College of Engineering, The University of Memphis
  • Professor, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, The University of Arkansas, 9/03-8/12.
  • Associate Professor, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, The University of Arkansas, 9/00-8/03.
  • Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Memphis, 9/98-8/00. 
  • Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, The University of Memphis, 8/92-8/98.

  • Member of the Technical Sta, IPSD, General Electric Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC, 8/87-9/88

  • Process Engineer, CICD, General Electric Corp., RTP, NC, 9/85-8/87.
  • Process Engineer, Fab 5, UTC-Mostek, Dallas, TX, 6/84-8/85.
 
  • Teaching interests: Health Law, Torts, ERISA, Food & Drug Law
  • State Mandated Disability Insurance as Salve to the Consumer Bankruptcy Imbroglio, 2011 BYU L. Rev 1327 (2011) Regulating Health and Wealth (Forthcoming) Cardozo Law Review (2013)
  • Representative Publications: State Mandated Disability Insurance as Salve to the Consumer Bankruptcy Imbroglio, 2011 BYU L. Rev 1327 (2011) Regulating Health and Wealth (Forthcoming) Cardozo Law Review (2013)
  • Journals: State Mandated Disability Insurance as Salve to the Consumer Bankruptcy Imbroglio, 2011 BYU L. Rev 1327 (2011) Regulating Health and Wealth (Forthcoming) Cardozo Law Review (2013)
  • Heise, D. (2005). Differentiation of Instruction in the ArtRoom.
  • Invited lecture at the Shelby Co Schools Art Teacher Inservice, Southwest Community College, Memphis, TN, 2005.
  • Heise, D. (2014). Premonition II. National Art Education Association Women's Caucus Art Exhibition.

  • Co-presenter at “Si Se Puede” Latino Youth Leadership Conference, UGA, GA – 2006
  • Organized art auction for the Tennille Family that raised over $4,000.00 – 2006
  • Co-curated photographic exhibition with Travis Linville at the Old Capitol
  • GC&SU
  • Soar Mentor 2005 – present
  • Search Committee for a Director Of Institutional Equity 2005
  • Submitted Fostering Resilience Through Art and Literacy for Families Who are Homeless, a $9,000 grand co-authored with Dr. Laurie MacGilivray to the Peyton Foundation, 2012