Teachers and Professors who Truly- Inspired and Guided us

High School Teacher – Mr. Holden-Business/Marketing teacher

Professor Jacaki- Business/Marketing and Entrepreneurship Professor

All professors and co-workers at Disney University

Thanks to all Professor who inspired me, and did the job of encouraging, illuminating, and Enriching the minds of the youth.

The following two professors truly encouraged, educated and inspired us to follow our dreams. They are professors of an Invention Senior Seminar Class at a Local New Jersey College. They truly made the class an enjoyable experience that I would never forget. From videos, to demonstrations, to live guest speakers,  real personal life stories about inventing, and opportunities in the class to pursue the inventive process. These professors really made the class interesting.

Hopefully all classes in America will become as interactive, hands-on, and as personal as this class was.

Phil Anderson is a Professor of Physics. He teaches introductory and advanced physics, analog and digital electronics, and invention.

He is an independent inventor, and has 20 years of experience with invention and product development. In addition to publications, he has 30 U. S. patents, and more than 100 foreign patents in amorphous metals, sensors, medical, automotive, and security devices.

Prior to becoming a professor, he was founding President and CEO of Identitech Corporation, the manufacturer of an acoustomagnetic electronic article surveillance system that he invented. He was a New Venture Manager and a Senior Research Physicist with Allied Signal Corporation. He also was a Systems Engineer with Electronic Data Systems, and a U.S. Air Force pilot.

He has a Ph.D. and MS in Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University , and a B.S. in Physics from Widener University . He is a member of the American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, and a recipient of Ramapo College 's FRED AND FLORENCE THOMASES FACULTY AWARD. He was selected as INVENTOR OF THE YEAR for 2001 by the New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame.

Cherie Ann Sherman is a Professor of Information Systems. She is a patent attorney and admitted to practice law in NY and NJ. Her technical background includes a Masters degree in Computer Science, from the School of Electrical Engineering, of the Polytechnic University.

She was a systems analyst and programmer for several Fortune 10 corporations and received the MBA and JD degree, (cum laude), from Pace University, where she studied patent and intellectual property law and was a member of the Law Review. She has published two related book chapters with Pennsylvania State University's Idea Group Publishing, "The Changing Environment of Software Copyright," and "Multimedia Computing and Intellectual Property Law: What Developers and Users Should Know."

She was employed by a NYC patent firm and by the Patent Department of the SONY Corporation. She is outside counsel to Philips Electronics and Ernest Buff, Intellectual Property Associates and has assisted independent inventors and start-up companies in copyrighting, trade marking and patenting their products. She is a co-author of the Ramapo College Copyright Policy and Policy on Appropriate Use of Information Technology. She is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association

Copyrighted –Darrell Fertakos 2004