Faculty

Dr.Recayi "Reg" Pecen
Associate Professor & Program Coordinator
ITC 39 Tel: (319) 273 2598
e-mail: pecen@uni.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Wyoming, 1997
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1993
M.S. in Control & Computer Eng., Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye, 1990
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, ITU - Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye,1986

Research/Teaching Interests
Circuits and Systems
Electrical Power Systems and Power System Control
Power Electronics and Power Quality
Renewable "Wind/PV/Fuelcell" Energy Applications
Environment, Technology, and Waste Minimization Issues
State Estimation, Transient Stability Analysis & Control
Large HVDC and AC Integrated Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and HVDC Control
AC/DC Power System Interactions, Applications of Signals - State Estimation - Kalman Filtering and Neural Networks in Power Systems
Senior Design Projects covering local industry & Renewable Energy Applications

Dr. Jin Zhu
Assistant Professor
ITC 47 Tel: (319) 273 2597
e-mail: Jin.Zhu@uni.edu

Degrees:
Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2005
M.S. in Communications and Information Systems, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 2000.
B.S. in Computer Science, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 1997.

Research/Teaching Interests:
Mobile/wireless Ad hoc and sensor networks
Aapplications and implementation of wireless sensor networks
Highly dynamic mobile networks
Energy efficiency and distributed protocol design
Network reliability and Quality of Service provisioning
Embedded networking systems
RFID
Security in wireless networks
Modeling and performance evaluation of stochastic systems
Digital Electronics
Microprocessors and embedded system
Computer architecture
Computer interfacing
Network design and implementation
TCP/IP
Wireless networks
Data communication and networks
Network security
Power electronics
Instrumentation
Electrical/electronics principles and circuits

Dr. Hong "Jeffrey" Nie
Assistant Professor
ITC 2A Tel: (319) 273 6825
e-mail: hong.nie@uni.edu

Degrees:
Ph. D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2006.
M. Eng. in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China,1995.
B. Eng in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China,1993.

Research/Teaching Interests:
Industrial applications of wireless sensor networks
Advanced wireless transceiver architectures for sensors in industrial environment
Ultra wide-band techniques for wireless sensor transceivers
Software defined radio & related digital signal processing techniques
Inter-cell interference and capacity analysis of cellular CDMA systems
Multi-user detection and macrodiversity techniques
Channel coding & digital modulation techniques for mobile communications
OFDM transmission techniques
Adaptive antenna array and multi-input multi-output systems

Dr. Bruce Upchurch
Part Time/Adjunct Instructor

Degrees:
Ph.D. Agricultural Engineering, Purdue Univesrity, West Lafayette, Indiana

Research/Teaching Interests:
Instrumentation Engineering
LabView Data Acquistion and Control Systems
Novel instrumentation solutions to support Component Testing
Development of training material
Ttraining instructors
Scheduling training sessions and identifying training needs

Dr. Taner Tuken
Part Time/Adjunct Instructor

Degrees:
Ph.D. and MS Mechanical Engineering Iowa State University

Research/Teaching Interests:
Linear/Nonlinear Control Systems
Adaptive Control Systems
Designing/developing embedded electronic control systems
Sensors and actuators
Efficient electronic hardware drivers
Application specific integrated circuits
Software coding; Modeling
System identification and simulation
System integration

Mr. Roger Woock
Part Time/Adjunct Instructor

Degrees:
BS ME

Research/Teaching Interests:
Power Technology, Mechanical, Fluid and Pneumatic Power and Control Systems

Mr. Jerry Farrell
Part Time/Adjunct Instructor

Degrees:
ED.S. University of Iowa
M.A UNI, BSEE University of Iowa

Research/Teaching Interests:
Analog and Digital Electronics/Communications

Mr. Clifford J. Salmons
Part Time/Adjunct Instructor

Degrees:
MEd Iowa State University
BA UNI

Research/Teaching Interests:
Programmable Logic Controllers
Assembly Language
Electronics Devices and Circuits