Dr. Millard’s research interests include: electronics design and manufacturing, electronic media, electrical testing methodologies, semiconductor fabrication, non-destructive inspection and evaluation, and information technology. He has managed and directed numerous electronics design and manufacturing oriented research efforts funded by NSF, DARPA, DOD, NASA, NY State and a wide variety of industrial/commercial sponsors.

He founded and directed the Mobile Studio project and is the co-developer of the Mobile Studio project's I/O Board. In 1999 he started thinking about a way to enable students to perform experiments anytime, anyplace - experiments that use an oscilloscope, function generator, digital control, and some form of power supply. He started the Mobile Studio project by looking at commercially available solutions, which were prohibitively expensive; wanting to involve students in bringing the project‛s vision to reality. Jason Coutermarsh, then a student at Rensselaer, joined the project in the summer of 2004 and developed a functional input/output board (I/O Board) hardware/software prototype. With the support of Analog Devices, Inc. and the National Science Foundation, the Mobile Studio Project is now being utilized to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in institutions around the world.

He has also been actively involved in the development of multimedia authoring tools and the integration of digital media for more than 20 years and has produced a variety of electronic multimedia-based presentations involving the use of video, music, and interactivity - winning the Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware. He also has authored a variety of multimedia-oriented lecture materials for use in courses involving electronic instrumentation and electronics design and manufacturing.

He has served as a principal investigator on a number of NSF grants, directing an award-winning NSF CCLI project that developed many materials and technologies for use in electrical engineering education. He was a key contributor to the multimedia-based Interactive Learning Modules (ILM) project and the Electronics Agile Manufacturing Research Institute, both of which were jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).