Together with M. Murphy he authored (2019) The expanding business of the entrepreneurial university: Job creation. Chapter 11 in S.H. Christensen, B. Delahousse, C. Didier, M. Meganck, & M. Murphy (Eds.) The Engineering-Business Nexus: Symbiosis, Tension and Co-Evolution. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Series. Charn, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. With G. Bertoline he also authored chapter 18, To what ends: Engineering , Technology, and Business Program Perspectives as to Their Key Purposes with Regard to the Society Housing Them, in the same volume. 

.He co-authored, with Grimson, W., & Murphy, M. (2009). Liberal Studies in Engineering & Technology. Chapter 8 in S.H. Christensen, B. Delahousse, & M. Meganck, (Eds.) (2009). Engineering in Context. Aarhus, Denmark: Academica.  Previously, he co-edited, together with Prof. Dr. Theuerkauf (Germany) International perspectives on technological education: Outcomes & futures, a proceedings book from the International Working Seminar for Scholars in Technology Education. In addition, he authored a University Council for Vocational Education, book chapter entitled HRD's Futures: Four Possibilities and in 1997 his work "Research in Technology Education, What do we really know?" was published in Blandow & Theuerkauf's (Eds.), Strategien und Paradigmenwechsel zur Technischen Bildung, Hildesheim, Germany.

In 1994 he edited with Prof. Dr. Dietrich Blandow of Germany, Technology Education in School and Industry: Emerging Didactics for Human Resource Development, a NATO ASI Series Book; in 1992 he published, with Dr. Dietrich Blandow and pursuant to support from the Technical Foundation of America, Technological Literacy, Competence and Innovation in Human Resource Development; and in 1991, his (co-edited) yearbook entitled Technological Literacy, was published by the International Technology Education Association.

He has authored American, Canadian, and international journal articles and a variety of curricula including Energy & Power Technology, Materials & Processing Technology, Process Instrumentation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration), the Missouri Industrial Technology Education Guide, an invited monograph, Literacy for a Technological World, delineating the concept and implications of technological literacy; a book chapter dealing with technology resource utilization, and, together with Daniel Householder, the Review and Synthesis of Research in Industrial Arts, 1968-1979.

Dr. Dyrenfurth served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Technology Studies (EPT) the International Journal for Technology and Design Education and M/S/T. He has presented 180+ sessions at international, national, and local conferences on technology, vocational education, methodology, research, simulation, technology, technology education, & technological literacy.

Dr. Dyrenfurth's specialties include technology education and teacher education, technological literacy, program and curriculum evaluation, international vocational technical education and leadership development. Research and consulting also form an important part of his work, a sample of which has involved international technical/vocational education, safety, developing business-industry-labor linkages, competency-based training, needs assessment, third party and other evaluations, curriculum development, human relations and workshop training.