Rate My Professor Brock LaMeres

Brock LaMeres is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department within the Engineering faculty at Montana State University, where he joined the faculty in July 2006. A Montana State University alumnus, he earned his BSEE in 1998, followed by an MSEE from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2001 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005. Before returning to academia, LaMeres worked as an R&D engineer at Agilent Technologies from 1999 to 2006, contributing to the design of acquisition hardware for logic analyzer systems and probing solutions. Since arriving at MSU, he has held key appointments including Director of the Montana Engineering Education Research Center since September 2016 and Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering Boeing Professor since July 2018. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Montana and Colorado and a Senior Member of the IEEE. LaMeres maintains an active presence in engineering education through his YouTube channel offering introductory instruction on digital logic, embedded systems, programming, and robotics.

LaMeres' research centers on radiation tolerant computing and reconfigurable computing using FPGAs, with applications in aerospace and military environments. Notable projects include the RadPC platform, a radiation-tolerant many-core computing system tested on sounding rockets, the International Space Station, satellites, high-altitude balloons, and selected for NASA's lunar mission via the Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payload program. Additional efforts encompass cybersecurity enhancements using space radiation for random number generation and engineering education innovations such as e-learning environments, spatial skills training via Minecraft for middle schoolers, and communication skills development for STEM graduates. He has authored five textbooks on digital logic and embedded systems, including Introduction to Logic Circuits & Logic Design with VHDL (2nd ed., Springer, 2019), Quick Start Guide to Verilog (Springer, 2019), and Embedded Systems Design using the MSP430FR2355 LaunchPad (Springer, 2020), as well as over 100 peer-reviewed papers and holds 15 U.S. patents, including patents on RadPC technology in 2024. His scholarship is evidenced by over 1,430 citations on Google Scholar. LaMeres has garnered prestigious awards, such as the American Society for Engineering Education's highest teaching honor in engineering (2025), the Bhagawandas and Rajani Lathi Award for Educational Excellence in Electrical Engineering for his textbook (2025), the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Educator Award (2018), and numerous MSU accolades including the Fox Award (2020) and multiple Outstanding Instructor awards. In 2021, he founded Resilient Computing to commercialize RadPC technology, impacting the field of resilient computing systems.