Thomas B. Barker is Professor Emeritus at the John D. Hromi Center for Quality and Applied Statistics in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Tom has a number of interests and has managed to integrate many of them. Photography and imaging play a central role in his activities. He has produced, written, and directed Distance Learning courseware for two design of experiments courses in the MS program in Applied Statistics at RIT and a course in the"Taguchi" approach in this exciting format. His experience with both still and video photography has made these efforts possible.
Tom has written 4 books on Experimental Design and its applications and has also authored a Repair manual for Gilbert American Flyer electric trains. His textbooks are published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press. and the Train repair manual was published by Greenberg Publications, a division of Kalmbach Publishing. It is now available directly from Tom on a CD ROM.