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Program in Electrical Engineering
2008 Program Highlight
2008 NSR EE REU Scholars and Research Topics
2008 REU Scholars |
Research Topics |
Faculty Mentors |
|---|---|---|
Mr. Joseph O'Bruba |
Investigation of A Uniform Wind Velocity Generation Using Cold Plasma |
Prof. Victor Pasko (5-3467) |
Mr. Daniel Schuette |
Circuit Design for NittanySat Solar Power System |
Prof. Sven Bilén (3-1526) |
Mr. Philip Deets |
Spectrum Monitoring with a Software Defined Radio |
Prof. Sven Bilén (3-1526) |
Miss Kimberly Ray |
Solving the Mystery of Long Duration Echoes |
Prof. John Mathews (865-2354) |
Mr. Michael Lengel |
Finite Element Simulation of Voltage Driven Solid Rotor Synchronous Machines with LC Filters |
Prof. Heath Hofmann (5-2229) |
Mr. Alexander Harrison |
Inventory & Model Based Methods for Text to Speech Synthesis |
Prof. Ken Jenkins (3-2788) |
Mr. Jeremy Dwyer |
Simultaneous Time and Spatial Shaping of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Shaping |
Prof. Zhiwen Liu (5-2362) |
Mr. Clinton Scarborough |
Measurement and Simulation of Interdigital Capacitor Structures with High-Permittivity Thin Films |
Prof. Mike Lanagan (5-6992) |
Mr. Samuel Poulos |
Modeling of Realistic Thundercloud Charge Structure Based on Lighting Mapping Array Observations and Application to Three-Dimensional Stochastic Simulation of Lightning Discharge |
Prof. Victor Pasko (5-3467) |
Mr. Michael Murphy |
The Evaluation of Circuit-Blcoks for a Robinson Marginal Oscillator |
Prof. Jeff Schiano (5-5422) |
Miss Nona Ebrahimi |
Development of Data Processing VI's in LabView for Real-Time Quartz Crystal Resonance Frequency and Phase Monitoring |
Prof. Srinivas Tadigadapa (5-2730) |
Miss Danielle Bell |
Implementing a Software-defined Radio Based Ionosonde Using Universal Software Radio Peripherals |
Prof. Julio Urbina (863-5326) |
2008 REU Participants
NSF EE REU 2008 Summer Program
Weekly Scientific Seminar
Department of Electrical Engineering
Room 101 EE East, 9:40 – 10:30 AM, Tuesdays
Seminar Chairs: Prof. Jack Mitchell and Prof. Ken Jenkins
(Followed by REU Weekly Workshop on Professional Development, 12:30-1:30 PM)
Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| June 3 | Energy Harvesting | Dr. Heath Hofmann |
| June 10 | The Joy of Quadrupole Resonance | Dr. Jeff Schiano |
| June 17 | Ushering in the "Green" Transistor | Dr. Suman Datta |
| June 24 | What’s Next? Graduate School, of Course! | Prof. David Salvia |
| July 1 | Software Defined Radio Applications | Dr. Sven Bilen |
| July 8 | Integrating Nanowire-based Sensors with CMOS Electronics Using Directed Self Assembly | Dr. Theresa Mayer |
| July 15 | Lightning-related Transient Luminous Events in the Middle Atmosphere | Dr. Victor Pasko |
| July 24 | 2008 NSF EEREU Symposium | REU Students |
Suggestions and inquiries: eereu@engr.psu.edu
NSF EE REU 2009 Summer Program
Weekly Workshop on Professional Development
Department of Electrical Engineering
Room 101 EE East; 10:50 - 11:50 AM Tuesdays
Chair: Prof. Andrew Lau (andylau@psu.edu)
Date |
Workshop Topic Addressed |
Weekly |
Faculty Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27 | Welcome Meeting and Kick-off Activities | Week 1 | Prof. Andy Lau & Liz Kisenwether |
| June 3 | Types of Moral Problems and Academic Integrity | Week 2 | Prof. Andy Lau |
| June 10 | Codes of Ethics and Responsible Conduct of Research | Week 3 | Prof. Andy Lau |
| June 17 | Global Environmental Issues and Moral Imagination | Week 4 | Prof. Andy Lau |
| June 24 | Intellectual Property and Smart Materials | Week 5 | Prof. Kenji Uchino |
| July 1 | Ethics Issues in Entepreneurship | Week 6 | Prof. Aundy Lau |
| July 8 | Technology Entrepreneurship Basics | Week 7 | Prof. Liz Kisenwether |
| July 15 | Realities of a Student-Based Technology Start-up: Buzby Networks | Week 8 | Prof. Liz Kisenwether & Buzby Founders |
| July 24 | 2008 NSF EE REU Research Symposium | Week 9 | REU students |
Suggestions and inquiries: eereu@engr.psu.edu