Robert Haney

Robert M. Haney, PE (Rockford, IL) was an electrical engineering consultant and adjunct instructor with nearly 40 years experience in the design, application, and field support of electronic controls and test equipment. He was a registered professional engineer in Illinois with a BSEE from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and a MSEE from Marquette University in Milwaukee. In addition to experience with controls for industrial engines, off-highway equipment, electric power generators, machine tools and automatic machinery, he also taught DC/AC circuits, electronics, and technical math for Rock Valley College. He taught mathematics for Rasmussen College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Upper Iowa Univerrsity. His experience includes engineering positions with United Technologies, Caterpillar, Delco Electronics, and Barber Colman Company and consulting positions with Delta Power Company, Hamilton Sundstrand, MTE Hydraulics, and Dynacorp. He holds a patent on a tractor draft control system assigned to J.I. Case that uses solenoid coils as sensors (US Patent #4,064,945). He was an active member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the Chicago/Rockford IEEE Consultants’ Network. Much of this experience was with the electronic control and testing of solenoids and solenoid based devices.