Computer Engineering Technology Degree Program
Meet the Faculty

Sterling Hough, Department Head Computer Engineering Technology and Electronic Engineering Technology

Professor Hough earned an Associate of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) from NHTI in 1973 followed by a Bachelor of Science in EET from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering also from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. After almost 30 years with AT&T Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies developing telecommunication products, Professor Hough joined the NHTI faculty in 2001 in the EET/CPET department and became department head of the CPET/EET departments in 2005.

Lynn Darnell, Professor EET/CPET

Professor Lynn Darnell has ten years experience in the field and has taught in the EET/CPET program at NHTI for over twenty years. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Ocean Engineering. You are most likely to encounter Professor Darnell in the Digital Electronics courses (EL115 or EL/CP215) or in Linear Electronics courses (EL110 & EL210)

William French, Associate Professor EET/CPET

Associate Professor William French has 30 years' experience as an engineer, product manager and engineering manager in the telecommunications and computer industries, prior to joining NHTI as an Adjunct Professor in 2003. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. Professor French teaches Embedded Microprocessors (EL144), Advanced Topics in Electronics (EL251) , Senior Design Project ( EL305 & EL306) as well as analog and digital electronics courses.

Terrance Simkin, Professor CPET

Professor Terrance Simkin is a Microsoft Certified Professional with Visual C++ Windows programming. He has over 20 years of teaching programming languages, algorithms and data structures, multithreading techniques, hardware interfacing, data communication and operating systems. Professor Simkin wrote his first program in 1965. Currently he is teaching a number of languages including Visual C++, Visual Basic, C# and Java.