Dr. Rex C. Patton is a retired reliability engineer, an adjunct associate professor and a part-time artist in visual mathematics. He spent twenty-six years with IBM in test engineering, reliability engineering and technical management.

After retiring from IBM, he worked eight years for TRW as a senior reliability engineer. While working as an engineer, Dr. Patton was an adjunct instructor with many of the Universities providing education in the Rochester area (University of MN, Winona State University, University of St. Thomas, Cardinal Stritch University, College of St Scholastica, IBM System Research Institute, and St. Mary’s University). He taught evening and weekend classes in statistics, operations management, project risk, project quality, project procurement and project cost management. The mix of work and education provided a rich blend of viewpoints for many current business and engineering problems.

Dr. Patton is a Certified Reliability Engineer, 6 Sigma Green Belt, has received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa, an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, a Master of System Engineering from NTU, and a DBA from NSU.