Primary Job Title Team Member Primary Organization 
Amoco Production Co.
Gender Male
Dr. Hoberock's 44 years of engineering experience have been divided between work in government (US Army Ballistic Research Labs); industry (Rocketdyne, Autonetics, Hamilton-Standard, Aero, Inc, Amoco Production Co. and Derrick Mfg. Corp.) and universities (Oklahoma State University and the U. of Texas-Austin).
He currently heads an academic
School with 25 faculty members and more than 1000 undergraduate and graduate students in both Tulsa and Stillwater, Oklahoma, that graduates BS, MS, and PhD students in both aerospace and mechanical engineering. While he was on the faculty at the University of Texas-Austin, he pioneered the introduction of the Personalized System of Instruction (the Keller Plan) to the teaching of courses in mechanical engineering. He published extensively about this method, served on the editorial board of a journal devoted to this new technique, and delivered numerous seminars and workshops in the US and abroad on this highly effective system of instruction. His technical specialties are in applied automation; applied machine vision; modeling and simulation of dynamic systems; and automatic control system design. He has published 70 refereed journal and conference articles, has supervised 35 graduate student dissertations and theses, and secured $25 million for 44 research projects from numerous industrial firms, private foundations, federal agencies, and state agencies. As Associate Director of the Oklahoma Center for Integrated Design and Manufacturing, a $12.5 MM, 5-year State Center of Excellence, he coordinated all of the research at OSU in a 3-university consortium. As Co-Director of the Oklahoma Applications Engineer Program, he directs a $ 900,000 per year program using engineers throughout Oklahoma to assist small manufacturers with engineering problems. As Founder and Director of the OSU New Product Development Center, he directed a $750,000 per year program to develop and help commercialize a wide variety of new products for small Oklahoma manufacturing firms. He remains active in industrial consulting.
Dr. Hoberock completed a 3-year term as Vice President of the Systems and Design Technical Group of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which serves the technical needs of approximately 30,000 mechanical engineers. He completed a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the Dynamics Systems and Control Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and was Chairman of the Division in 1991 and Chairman of its Honors Committee 1998-99. During 1997-98, he was Chair of the ASME National M.E. Departments Heads Committee, and from 1993-1995 he served as Chair of the ASME Region X M.E. Department Heads Committee. He has been a Technical Educator Review Chairman for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, an associate editor for the ASME Transactions Journal of Dynamic Systems and Control and an associate editor of SPE Drilling Engineering. He has served on numerous other national and state advisory committees.
