Dr. C. Samuel Micklus, Professor Emeritus at Rowan University of New
Jersey (formerly Glassboro State College) where he taught technology
from 1968 to 1991. For several years prior to 1978, Professor Micklus
experimented with creative problem-solving activities with the college
students in his industrial design classes. He used new and challenging
problems to probe students' minds for solutions. Co-founder of the
Odyssey of the Mind program. Dr. Micklus wrote books, articles and
teachers' manuals on industrial design and creative problem solving. He
earned his Doctor of Education degree in 1975 at New York University,
an M.A. in Industrial Arts Education in 1968 from Trenton State
College, and a B.S. in Industrial Design in 1966 from the University of
the Arts in Philadelphia.