He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware. While a lecturer there, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the undergraduate chapter of the ACM. He also received a Towson University Faculty Excellence Award, and was Director of the Undergraduate Computer Science program for over ten years.?Dr. Dierbach has regularly taught introductory undergraduate computer science courses for the past thirty-five years. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in object-oriented design and programming.