Time to Eat!!

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Time to Eat!!
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Colorado School of Mines IEEE Student
Branch Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers
Presents
Meet the Faculty and General Advising
Session for EE-Specialty Students Wednesday,
April 1, 1200-100, BB 204A
Power Systems
Computer Vision

• Learn about IEEE Membership
• Get the latest scoop on curriculum requirements
• Hear about the electives available to EE students
• Learn about the 5-yr combined BS/MS option
• Get information on graduate school possibilities
• Talk to faculty and learn about their research

Renewable Energy
Wireless Communications
Power Electronics
Free Food While it Lasts!
Control Systems
Robotics
Humanitarian Engineering
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IEEE Officers

• President Jake Hogan
• VP/ Treasurer Ashley Tomsic
• Publicity Nick Podany
• Event Chair Mark Husted

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Why join IEEE?

• Get involved on campus with your professional
  society
• Circuits tutoring
• Make professional contacts
• Leadership opportunities
• National IEEE career services and publications.

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Upcoming IEEE Events

• EE Tutoring Sessions
• Officer Elections
• All positions to be filled

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Tutoring

• Focus on Circuits I (DCGN381)
• Strategically positioned in front of tests
• Community and outreach
• Overwhelming turn-out from circuits students
• You can still get involved!

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EE Career Outlook

• Baby boomer engineers are retiring
• Utility executives estimate at least 50 of
  workforce will reach retirement age in next 37
  years
• Consequently, US Bureau of Labor Statistics says
• This will result in excellent opportunities for
  qualified entrants
• Persons with college training or advanced
  technical education will have the best
  opportunities
• Shortage of human capital is hindering growth of
  clean energy industry

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What it means to you

• From 2004-08, US salaries for1
• Energy and power engg jobs ? by 9.2
• Systems and control engg jobs ? by 7.2

Figures taken directly from 1
1 P. Patel-Predd, Engineers are doing well by
doing good, IEEE Spectrum, vol. 45, no. 8, p.
64, Aug. 2008.
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Employment of 2007-2008 grads

• 57 graduates in 07-08
• 51 were placed
• 9 to grad school
• 6 in govt or military
• Rest in industry
• Average salary 56,703

ADA Technologies Aerostream Engineering ATK
Launch Systems ATK Launch Systems Ball
Corporation Barrios Technology Level 3 Lockheed
Martin Lockheed Martin Northrop
Grumman Siemens Sun Microsystems Anvil
Corp. Burns McDonnel Carollo Engineering Carollo
Engineering Scanlon Szynskie Shaw Group Shaw
Group Stanley Consultants Stanley
Consultants Syncroness Washington Group
Intl Washington Group Intl Black Veatch Black
Veatch Fluor Gyrodata Harris Group I.R.E.A. NJ
ShaumSons Utility Engineering Utility
Engineering Air Liquide General Electric Lincoln
Electric Self-employed

• Tips
• Start networking!
• IEEE
• Professors
• Senior design projects
• Interns co-ops
• Great experience
• Can try out field
• Helps land job
• See career center website

Energy and power
Construction, consulting services
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Fall Semester 2009

• Pre-registration next week (April 6-10)
• Advisor
• Dont have one? Get one!
• Must see advisor if GPA lt 2.5 to get a PIN
• Good idea anyway to see regularly
• Flowchart
• Get one (from office or web)
• Mark it up with courses youve taken

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EG-EE Flowchart
Make sure you have pre-reqs for 334 it is
needed for 491/492
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Possible Tracks
Energy and Power Power systems, power
electronics, energy engineering 484 Power
Systems Analysis 485 High Power Electronics 486
Small Renewable Energy Sys 487 Energy Systems Lab
Grad courses
Signals and Systems Controls, communications,
microcomputers, biomed instrument. 417 Modern
Control Design 482 Microcomputer Arch 483 Analog
Digital Comm. 430 Biomedical Instrument.
Grad courses
EE Specialty Core Topics Digital, Advanced
Circuits, Electrical Machines, EM

• Also consider
• Minors
• ASIs

Engineering Foundations Circuits 1, MEL1,
Statics, Thermo,
Breadth, Foundation, and Basics Physics, math,
chemistry, liberal arts, economics,
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News

• EGGN 386 (Engineering Electromagnetics)
• Going to offer in spring semesters only
• If you need it to graduate in fall, see your
  advisor
• PEGN 450 (Energy Engineering)
• We are dropping this course as an electrical
  elective
• Petroleum Engineering is no longer offering

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EE Electives List

• Physics and Microelectronics
• PHGN300 Modern Physics
• PHGN320 Modern Physics II
• PHGN412 Mathematical Physics
• PHGN435 Interdiscip. Microelectronics Proc. Lab
• PHGN440 Solid State Physics Appl. Phenomena
• PHGN441 Solid State Physics Applications
• PHGN462 Electromagnetic Waves Optical Physics
• Mathematics
• EGGN460 Numerical Methods for Engineers
• MATH334 Introduction to Probability
• MATH335 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
• MATH455 Partial Differential Equations
• Other
• EGGN398/498 Special Topics (in EE)
• EGGN5xx Graduate courses (in EE)

• Controls, computers, communications
• EGGN400 Introduction to Robotics
• EGGN417 Modern Control Design
• EGGN482 Microcomputer Arch. and Interfacing
• EGGN483 Analog and Digital Comm. Sys
• CSCI341 Machine Org. Assembly Lang. Prog.
• CSCI440 Parallel Comp. for Scientists Eng.
• Energy systems
• EGGN484 Power Systems Analysis
• EGGN485 Intro to High Power Electronics
• EGGN486 Small Renewable Energy Sys
• EGGN487 Advanced Energy Systems Lab
• PEGN450 Energy Engineering
• Biomedical
• EGGN325 Introduction to Biomedical Eng.
• EGGN430 Biomedical Instrumentation

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EE Electives next Fall

• Controls, computers, communications
• EGGN400 Introduction to Robotics
• EGGN482 Microcomputer Architecture and
  Interfacing
• CSCI341 Machine Org. Assembly Lang. Prog.
• Energy systems
• EGGN484 Power Systems Analysis
• EGGN486 Small Renewable Energy Sys
• Physics/Microelectronics
• PHGN300 Modern Physics
• PHGN440 Solid State Physics Appl. Phenomena
• PHGN462 Electromagnetic Waves Optical Physics
• Mathematics
• MATH334 Introduction to Probability
• MATH455 Partial Differential Equations

• Other Topics
• EGGN325 Introduction to Biomedical Eng
• EGGN430 Biomedical Instrumentation
• Graduate Classes
• EGGN 510 Image Processing
• EGGN 515 Mathematical Methods for Signals and
  Systems
• EGGN 516 RF Microwave Engineering
• EGGN 582 Renewable Energy Distributed
  Generation
• EGGN 584 Power Distribution Systems
• EGGN 587 Intro to Power Systems Market Ops

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Why Go to Grad School?

• Specialization
• complements broad CSM Engineering BS
• Research
• ask / discover / shape / innovate / collaborate /
  travel
• define the future of Electrical Engineering
• Career potential (MS)
• deeper, more interesting opportunities
• security against outsourcing and global
  competition
• higher salaries
• Career potential (PhD)
• faculty positions
• research position at a national lab or
  research-oriented company
• Many schools cover tuition and pay a salary

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CSM EG Grad School Options

• General information
• GPA 3.0 (GRE test waived for CSM BS graduates)
• Apply in early spring, for fall admission
• MS or PhD in Engineering, with a specialty in EE
• Energy Systems and Power Electronics track
• Sensing, Communication, and Control track
• MS degree
• Non-thesis option 30 hours coursework
• Can finish in one additional year (the 5-year
  program)
• Thesis option 24 hours coursework, plus 6 hours
  thesis research
• Most students take at least 2 years to finish
• You may get a teaching or research assistantship
  (TA or RA), which pays tuition and a stipend
• PhD degree
• Can get MS first, then decide to go on for this
  or apply directly into the PhD program
• 18 additional hours coursework plus 24 additional
  thesis research hours

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EE Faculty at CSM

• Ravel Ammerman Circuits, Power, Machines,
  Electrical Safety
• Sanaa Azim Circuits, Electronics, Control
• Bill Hoff Image Processing, Digital, Computers
• Katie Johnson Control Systems, Wind Energy
• Kevin Moore Control Systems, Robotics
• P.K. Sen Power Systems
• Marcelo Simoes Power Electronics
• Cathy Skokan Senior Design, Circuits, Signals
  Processing
• John Steele Robotics, Control, Microcontrollers
• Sid Suryanarayanan Power systems
• Tyrone Vincent Control Systems
• Mike Wakin Signal Processing
• Manoja Weiss RF/Wireless Communications

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Ravel F. Ammerman Electrical Safety Research,
Computer Applications in Power System Analysis,
Engineering Education

• Co-Project Manager for the IEEE/NFPA Arc Flash
  Collaborative Research and Testing Program

Sample Projects
Arc Flash Hazard Assessment Electrical Safety
Training Program Development Power System Modeling

• Recent Publications
• R.F. Ammerman, P.K. Sen, and J.P. Nelson, "Arc
  Flash Hazard and Incident Energy Calculations A
  Comparative Study of IEEE 1584 NFPA 70E, IEEE
  Industry Applications Magazine, Scheduled
  Publication No. 3, May/June 2009.
• R.F. Ammerman, T. Gammon, P. K. Sen, and, J.P.
  Nelson, Comparative Study of Arc Modeling and
  Arc Flash Incident Energy Exposures, Paper PCIC
  2008-40, IEEE/IAS 55th Annual Petroleum and
  Chemical Industry Technical Conference,
  Cincinnati, Ohio, September 2008.
• R.F. Ammerman, P.K. Sen, J.P. Nelson, and T.
  Gammon, DC Arcing Phenomenon Volt-Ampere
  Characteristics, Circuit Modeling and Incident
  Energy Calculation accepted for publication at
  the 56th Annual Petroleum and Chemical Industry
  Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA, September
  2009.

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William Hoff Computer Vision, Image
Understanding, Medical Imaging

• Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Journal
• Associate Director, Engineering Division

Sample Projects
Vision-based pose estimation for navigation and
augmented reality
Activity recognition and modeling
Recent Publications Baker, C., C. Debrunner, S.
Gooding, W. Hoff, and W. Severson, Autonomous
Vehicle Video Aided Navigation - Coupling INS and
Video Approaches, Proc. of 2nd International
Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, NV,
2006, Nov. 6-8, pp. 534-543. Lee, J., and W.
Hoff, Activity Identification Utilizing Data
Mining Techniques, IEEE Workshop on Motion and
Video Computing, Austin, Texas, Feb. 23-24, 2007.
Steinbis, J., W. Hoff, T. Vincent, "3D Fiducials
for Scalable AR Visual Tracking," Proc of Int
Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality,
Cambridge, UK, 2008.
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Kathryn Johnson Control Applications, Nonlinear
and Adaptive Control, Wind Energy

• Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

Sample Projects

• Adaptive control of utility-scale variable speed
  wind turbines
• Wind turbine protection and fault detection

• Wind farm optimization and control
• Control of wind turbines to reduce fatigue loading

Recent Publications Johnson, K. and Rex, A.,
Methods for controlling a wind turbine system
with a continuously variable transmission in
region 2, accepted for publication in the
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. Darrow,
P.J., Wright, A., and Johnson, K., 2009, Wind
turbine control design to reduce capital costs,
Proc. of the AIAA/ASME Wind Energy Symposium,
2009. Johnson, K. and Fingersh, L., Adaptive
pitch control of variable-speed wind turbines,
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering,
2008. Johnson, K., Pao, L., Balas, M., and
Fingersh, L., Control of Variable Speed Wind
Turbines a stability analysis of standard and
adaptive techniques, IEEE Control Systems
Magazine, 2006.
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Kevin Moore Control Systems, Iterative
Learning Control, Robotics, Mobile
Sensor/Actuator Networks

• Dobelman Distinguished Chair and Professor of
  Engineering

Sample Projects
Iterative learning control (ILC), for systems
that operate repetitively
MobileARMS Mobile Autonomous Robotic Manipulators
Recent Publications Iterative Learning Control
Robustness and Monotonic Convergence for Interval
Systems, Hyo-Sung Ahn, Kevin L. Moore, and
YangQuan Chen, Springer-Verlag CEE Series,
Springer-Verlag, London, 2007. Spatial-Based
Iterative Learning Control for Motion Control
Applications, Kevin L. Moore, Mohua Ghosh, and
YangQuan Chen, Meccanica, vol 42. no. 2, , pp.
167-175, 2007. High-Order and Model Reference
Consensus Algorithms in Cooperative Control of
Multi-Vehicle Systems, Wei Ren, Kevin L. Moore,
and YangQuan Chen, ASME Journal of Dynamic
Systems, Measurement and Control, vol. 129, no.
5, pp. 678-688, 2007. Stability Analysis of
Discrete-Time Iterative Learning Control Systems
with Interval Uncertainty, Hyo-Sung Ahn, Kevin
L. Moore, YangQuan Chen, Automatica, Vol. 43, No.
5, pp. 892-902, 2007. Decentralized Adaptive
Scheduling Using Consensus Variables, Kevin L.
Moore and Dennis Lucarelli, International Journal
of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Special Issue on
Decentralized Control of Communicating-Agent
Systems, vol. 17, pp. 921-940, 2007.
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Marcelo Godoy Simões Power Electronics, Energy
Conversion Systems for Renewable Energy
Applications, Intelligent Control

• NSF Career Award
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power
  Electronics

• Recent Research Topics
• Power electronics for efficient energy conversion
• Intelligent control as applied to energy
  conversion
• Modeling and control of microgrids
• Methods and systems for maximum photovoltaic
  energy capturing and conditioning
• Wind turbine variable speed systems
• Energy storage for renewable energy conditioning
• Hybrid renewable energy systems
• Fault tolerant systems for interconnection of
  renewable energy to the grid

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Catherine Skokan
Interests Digital Data Processing, Electrical
Properties of Earth Materials, K12 Education,
Humanitarian Engineering, Curriculum Development
Current Research Projects NSF GK12 Learning
Partnership CDE Math and Phys. Science
M.S.Teachers CCHE Technology for M. S.
Teachers BIA Energy Curriculum
Development Hewlett Humanitarian
Engineering NSF Alice for HS Teachers
Classes Taught Intro Circuits Info
Systems Senior Design Groundwater Mapping Music
and Honors, too
Recent Publications Skokan, C. K., 2004,
Senegal Irrigation and Water Quality Project,
FastTimes, EEGS, Vol. 9, No. 3 Skokan,C. K.,
Simoes, M. G., Delplanque, J.P. and Gosink, J.,
2005, ABET 2000 Challenges in Curricular
Compression Fluids and Circuits A Pilot 211
Approach, IEEE Trans. On Education, Vol. 48, No.
3, p.503-512. Skokan, C. K., Moskal, B., Tafoya,
J, Nguyen, Q, Kosbar, L, and Duffield, J., 2005,
Physical Science and Mathematics in the Middle
School Classroom An Integrated Approach,
International Conference on Engineering
Education, Gainesville, Gliwice, Poland (July
25-29, 2005). Skokan, C.K., Munoz, D, and Gosink,
J., 2006, Humanitarian Engineering Projects in
Multidisciplianry Senior Design, Chapter 39,
World Innovations in Engineering Education and
Research.
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• Director of NEAT New Engineering and Applied
  Technology
• Associate Director Center for Mine Mechanization
  and Automation

John Steele Robots and Intelligent Machines,
Mining Robotics, Intelligent Sensing Systems,
Machine Health Monitoring
Sample Projects
Mining Robotics control, navigation and mapping
Closed-loop control of robotic welding
Recent Publications John P.H. Steele, Chris
Mnich, Chris Debrunner, Tyrone Vincent, and
Stephen Liu, Development of closed-loop control
of robotic welding processes, Industrial Robot,
32(4)350 355, June 2005. T. Ruff and J.
Steele,Recent advances in proximity warning
technology for surface mining equipment, Mining
Engineering Technical Papers, pp. 68-72, vol.
316, December, 2004. M. Whitehorn, C. Debrunner,
J. P. H. Steele and T. Vincent,
Three-dimensional modeling of underground mines
using temporal integration of stereo range data,
Transactions of the Society of Mining Engineers,
vol. 316, sec. 3, (2004), pp. 79-84.
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Siddharth Suryanarayanan Advanced power systems,
Algorithms for power systems and markets,
Modeling and simulation

• 2007 NSF collaborative research grant award
  recipient
• 2007, Technical committee member, IEEE Electric
  Ship Technologies Symposium

Sample Projects
Systems approaches to deregulated electric power
markets
All-electric ship power system design and
operation (future funding)

• Recent Publications
• N. Senroy, S. Suryanarayanan, P. F. Ribeiro, "An
  improved Hilbert-Huang method for analysis of
  time-varying waveforms in power quality," IEEE
  Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 22, no. 4, pp.
  1843-1850, Nov. 2007.
• N. Senroy, S. Suryanarayanan, M. Steurer, S.
  Woodruff, Application of a time-frequency
  algorithm for adaptive estimation of transfer
  function of a notional high-temperature
  superconducting motor, in Proc. 2007 IEEE
  Electric Ship Technologies Symposium, Arlington,
  VA, pp. 238-244.

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Tyrone Vincent Control Systems, System
Identification, Fault Detection

• NSF Career Award
• Corresponding Editor, IEEE Control Systems
  Magazine

Sample Projects
Augmented Reality and other tracking applications
Numerical methods for nonlinear system
identification and fault detection
Recent Publications John Steinbis, William Hoff,
Tyrone L. Vincent, 3D Fiducials for Scalable AR
Visual Tracking in Proc. 7th IEEE and ACM
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented
Reality, Cambridge, UK, 2008. Gunther Schwab,
Tyrone L. Vincent and John P. H. Steele,
Contaminant Classification in Robotic Gas Metal
Arc Welding via Image Based Spatter Tracking,
in Proc. Multi-conference on Systems and
Control, San Antonio, TX, 2008. Kenneth Hsu,
Kameshwar Poolla, and Tyrone L. Vincent,
Identification of Structured Nonlinear Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53,
No. 11, pp. 2497-2513, 2008. Kenneth Hsu, Tyrone
Vincent, Greg Wolodkin, Sundeep Rangan, Kameshwar
Poolla An LFT Approach to Parameter
Estimation, Automatica Vol. 44, pp. 3087-3092,
2008.
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Mike Wakin Signal and image processingCompressive
sensingMultiscale geometric analysisMulti-signa
l processing

• DARPA Young Faculty Award recipient
• NSF Theoretical Foundations Program collaborative
  grant recipient

Sample Projects
Compressive sensingand inverse problemsfor
sensor networks,A/D conversion,medical imaging,
etc.
Manifold models for concise signal structure

• Recent Publications
• R.G. Baraniuk and M.B. Wakin, Random Projections
  of Smooth Manifolds, to appear in Foundations of
  Computational Mathematics, 2008.
• R. Baraniuk, M. Davenport, R. DeVore, and M.
  Wakin, A Simple Proof of the Restricted Isometry
  Property for Random Matrices, to appear in
  Constructive Approximation, 2008.
• V. Chandrasekaran, M.B. Wakin, D. Baron, and R.G.
  Baraniuk, Representation and Compression of
  Multi- Dimensional Piecewise Functions Using
  Surflets, to appear in IEEE Transactions on
  Information Theory, 2008.
• E.J. Candes, M.B. Wakin, and S.P. Boyd,
  Enhancing Sparsity by Reweighted L1
  Minimization, to appear in Journal of Fourier
  Analysis and Applications, 2008.

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Manoja Weiss Electromagnetics, RF/Microwave
Design, Wireless Communications

• Wireless Robot Networks
• RF Medical Instrumentation

Sample Projects
RF Ablation of Liver Lesions Monitoring Forward
and Reverse RF power flow
Smart Antennas for Robotic Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

• Recent Publications
• Manoja D. Weiss, Brian Zadler, Scott Schafer and
  John Scales, Near Field Millimeter Wave
  Microscopy with Conical Teflon Probes, Submitted
  to IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
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• Manoja D. Weiss, James Peeke and Tom Schwengler,
  A Statistical Radio-Range Model for a Robot
  MANET in a Subterranean Mine, IEEE Transactions
  on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57, No. 5, Sept.
  2008, pgs 2658-2666.