Professor Raza Abhari: Various
areas of aerodynamics,heat transfer, vibration and instrumentation of gas
turbine components; including the design of turbomachinery airfoils, the heat
transfer and the cooling of turbine blades, and the forced reponse vibration of
turbine and compressor bladings.
Professor Gerald Baumgartner: His research interest is to design better modularization constructs (modules, classes, etc.) to facilitate the construction and maintainance of large programs. He tries to combine the best ideas for such constructs from functional and object-oriented languages and incorporate them into production languages.
Professor Donald
Kasten: Neural networks applied to transformer
protection. Welding transformer
design and magnetic flux density distributions in AC substations
.
Other research topics include: Electric Fields in
AC substations and in HVDC converter stations, design and performance of AC
substation grounding grids and electric field effects from hybrid transmission
lines.
Professor Ali Keyhani: Electric Machines: Design, Finite
Element Analysis, Modeling and Control. Electro-mechanical
(Mechatronic) Systems: Design, Modeling, Failure Detection, and
Control. Power Electronic Systems: Rapid
Prototyping using hardware in the loop test Testbed, Design andControl of Power
Converters and Electric Drives. Power Systems
Control: Market Monitoring and Control of Ancillary Services,
Leader Follower Incentive Control,State Estimation, Load Modeling and
Forecasting, and Parameter Estimation. Technology
Application: Neural Network Modeling, Parameter Estimation,
Fuzzy Logic and Control of Electro-mechanical Systems (Variable Speed Drive
Systems, Electric Propulsions, Design of Embeded Systems, Electric Compressors,
Electric Power Steering Systems).
Professor Patrick Roblin:
Physics and simulation of
quantum heterostructure devices. Non-linear electro-thermal
measurement (DC/RF/microwave and pulsed IV/RF).
Modeling of
semiconductor devices (MODFET's, SOI-MOSFET, Thyristors/BJT's, and Resonant
Tunneling Diodes) and circuits (Active Antennas, Power RF Amplifiers, Power
Switching) for applicaitons in teh design of RF/microwave wireless system, and
in Smart-Power IC's with reduced RFI.
Dr. Tomy Sebastian - Adjunct
Professor: Electric machine design. Electric
Drives. Design and Control of Electric Power Steering Systems. Control by
wire.
Professor Vadim Utkin: Variable
Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control. Control of Induction machines, DC
machines, and synchronous drives using sliding mode techniques in metal cuttin
machine tools, process control and electric cars. Control of
infinite-dimensional plants (including flexible manipulators), sliding modes in
discrete time systems; Microprocessor implementation of sliding mode control,
control of electric drives and alternators; robotics and motion
control.
Professor Kambiz Vafai:
Transport through porous media
and multiphase transport, natural convestion in complex configurations,analysis
of porous insulations, heat flux applications, free surface flows,
unconventional heat pipes and thermal analysis of electic
machines,electro-mechanical actuators and power electronics. Basic and
applied research in several areas related to heat and mass transfer transport
such as Fundamental Aspects of Transport through Porous Media, Natural
Convection in Open-Ended Configurations, Condensations and Phase Change,
Multiphase Transport through Porous,Media, Heat Pipe Analysis as Applied to
Medical and BNCT Applications, Flow and Heat Transfer in Brake Housings of an
Aircraft,Heat Transfer and Phase Change Effects on Insulation and Partial
Insulations and Free Surface Analuysis in regular and porous media.
Professor Longya Xu:
Variable speed drive and generating
systems. Optimal design of electric machines using finite element
method. Power electronic device characterization and power circuit
synthesis, analysis and application, on-time digital signal processor
application to variable speed systems. Advanced control theory application
to variable speed systems .
