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Professor Sherman earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the University of Maine. Following registration as an EIT in Maine and Connecticut, he went on to complete a 5-year professional Bachelor of Architecture degree through Syracuse University. He became a licensed architect in New York following experience with King & King Architects, Sargent-Webster-Crenshaw & Folley Architects/Engineers, and special projects with McDonald & Korman Architects (SU Undergraduate & Graduate Deans of Architecture). After many years of practice in New York and Connecticut, Rob went on to earn the Master of Architecture II degree through Syracuse University at Florence, Italy in 2003.

Rob is a member of the Maine American Institute of Architects, a Registered NYS Architect, a board member of the UMA President’s Council for Environmental Sustainability, a UMA representative to The Green Campus Consortium of Maine Colleges, a Trustee for The Olmsted Alliance for Parks and Landscapes, a member of the Maine US Green Building Council and Maine Indoor Air Quality Council, and a member of the Portland Society of Architects. Having moved to Hallowell (previously of Orr’s Island), Rob is starting a small architectural practice. Following his architecture class project to expand the Harlow Gallery and add artist apartments in Hallowell, he is presently working on an addition to a residence located on Great Island, Rhode Island.

As advisor for the American Institute of Architecture Students and the Art and Architecture Society of UMA, Rob is curator for yearly juried Architecture Program exhibits at UMA and presently at the University of Southern Maine. As a faculty advisor to the UMA Honors Program, Rob recently led a seminar on Sustainable Architecture at Acadia National Park for the National Collegiate Honors Council week-long "Partners in the Parks" program with students attending from as far away as Vietnam and Azerbaijan. This was a great opportunity to join Honors Program staff, students, faculty, and US Forest Rangers for interdisciplinary seminars, hiking, swimming, canoeing, and camping on Mount Desert Island.

Occasionally, Rob appears with faculty and students playing guitar at "Expressions", a local pub, and the Mile-Of-Art Show. Rob is fascinated with the combined artistic/architectural/engineering accomplishments of Renaissance greats, such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci ...in addition to modern-day Santiago Calatrava ... with the result that he greatly enjoys encouraging students to attend a variety of monthly art openings and visits to museums, in addition to frequent field trips to see works of architecture, engineering, and the Boston Architectural College student exhibits.