Dr. Kelvin Erickson, is a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Fellow of ISA. He has been at Missouri S&T since 1986 and served as the Dept. Chairman from 2002 to 2014. He has over 40 years’ experience with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and distributed control systems (DCS). He was a software design engineer at Fisher Controls for 6 years prior to joining the faculty of S&T. At S&T, his area of expertise has been automation engineering and process control. For the past 30 years, he has taught regular college courses and short courses on programming for Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Modicon, and Emerson/GE PLCs. In 1997, he was on a sabbatical leave at Magnum Technologies (now Maverick Technologies) working on various PLC projects. He is an ABET Evaluator and Team Chair, currently serving as an ETAC Commissioner. In addition, he authored Programmable Logic Controllers: An Emphasis on Design and Application, 4th Ed. (Dogwood Valley Press, 2023) and Allen-Bradley PLCs: An Emphasis on Design and Application, 2nd Ed. (Dogwood Valley Press, 2023) and co-authored Plantwide Process Control (Wiley, 1999)

Selected Publications

• Erickson, K. T., Programmable Logic Controllers: An Emphasis on Design and Application, 4th Ed, Dogwood Valley Press, 2023.
• Erickson, K. T., Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers: An Emphasis on Design and Application, 2nd Ed, Dogwood Valley Press, 2023.
• Erickson, K. T, “Programmable Logic Controllers,” Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, 6th Ed., Chapter 4, Mc-Graw-Hill, 2019.
• Erickson, K. T, “Discrete Control,” A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge, 3rd Ed., Chapter 4, Nicholas P. Sands and Ian Verhappen (Eds.), International Society of Automation, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2018, pp. 57-78.
• Erickson, K. T. and Hedrick, J. L., Plantwide Process Control, Wiley, 1999.

Book Publications

• Erickson, K. T., Programmable Logic Controllers: An Emphasis on Design and Application, 3rd Ed, Dogwood Valley Press, 2016.
• Erickson, K. T., Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers: An Emphasis on Design and Application, Dogwood Valley Press, 2013.
• Erickson, K. T., Programmable Logic Controllers: An Emphasis on Design and Application,2ndEd, Dogwood Valley Press, 2011.
• Erickson, K. T. and Hedrick, J. L., Plantwide Process Control, Wiley, 1999.

 Recent Grants

• Controls Laboratory Equipment, Missouri S&T (Co-principal Investigator with Jagannathan Sarangapani).

 Selected Awards and Honors

• International Society of Automation Fellow, 2019 Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professorship, 2019
• Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education, 2019
• UMR Faculty Excellence Award, 1989 -90, 1990 -91, 1991-92
• UMR Outstanding Teacher Award 1987 -88, 1988 -89, 1990-91, 1994-95,1998-99, 1999-2000, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009,2014-15
• IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, 2015
• Dean of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award 2003-04