He has over 10 years experience teaching in the Engineering program and in Electronics Engineering Technology . Professor DePalma received his BSEE from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, his MSEE, from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has experience in teaching beginning circuit analysis, electronics, digital logic, microcontrollers and senior project.Professor DePalma's research interests lie in biomedical engineering. He has developed a small, handheld heart monitor and done advance modeling/spectral analysis of evoked potential signals.