Don Peter
Associate Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering; Washington State Licensed Professional Engineer (PE)
Email: donp@spu.edu
Phone: 206-281-3649
Office: Otto Miller Hall 207
Education: BS, Seattle Pacific College, 1974; MSEE, University of Washington, 1976. At SPU since 1987.
As a Seattle Pacific physics alumnus, Don Peter has a long association with SPU. After graduate school, he worked in industry for Tektronix Inc. in Beaverton, Oregon, as an electronics design engineer, electronics evaluation engineer, and a diagnostics software engineer in display technology, microprocessor development products, and laboratory oscilloscopes.
Since coming to SPU as faculty, Mr. Peter has done consulting work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and at local companies working with customized laser printer software and manufacturing automated measurement systems.
Don Peter has taught a wide variety of courses, including digital design, analog electronics, power electronics, design engineering, computer programming, and introductory mechanical engineering. He has also taught freshman seminars and oversees the student professional engineering preparation process.
Please see Don Peter’s CV (PDF) for more information.
Selected Publications
- Don Peter, “A Survey of the State of the Power Engineering Profession in the Pacific Northwest and What Working Professionals are Defining as Priorities for Preparing Students to Fill Present and Near-Future Vacancies,” Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
- Denise Wilson, Don Peter, Cheryl Allendoeffer, Elizabeth Burpee, Mee Joo Kim, “Engineering Students Outside the Classroom: The Nature of Extracurriculars and Their Influence on Academic Experience,” Journal of Engineering Education, 2015.
- Denise M. Wilson, Donald M. Peter, Diane Jones, Joy Crawford, Nannette Veilleux, Rebecca Bates, Tamara Floyd-Smith, “Communities that Make a Difference: a STEM Perspective,” Frontiers in Education (FIE), November 2012.
- Don Peter, “We Can Do Better: A proven, intuitive, efficient and practical design-oriented circuit analysis paradigm is available, so why aren’t we using it to teach our students?” Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.