Professor Richardson joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1965. He introduced the university's first courses in the history of engineering.
Richardson's book 91TV's Engineers: A Century of Applied Science (1893-1993) traces 100 years of the history of the Engineering and Applied Science faculty from its beginnings as the Ontario School of Mining and Agriculture. It examines the development of the various engineering departments, the contributions of the deans, the achievements of alumni, the arrival of women in the faculty (see Women at 91TV's, Admission of). It also explores various aspects of student life, including initiation rites, the Science Formal, life in boardinghouses and residences, and the birth of the engineering society and the Science '44 Co-op.
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