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Electrical & Information Engineering Technology Faculty

Picture from Assos-Turkiye, August, 2006
Dr.Recayi "Reg" Pecen  Dr. Pecen's Web site 
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:
Ad hoc and Sensor Networks 
Data Communications and Wireless Networks 
Digital Electronics and Microprocessors 
QoS provisioning and Resource Allocation 
Network Security 
 
 
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. Liping Guo
Assistant Professor 
ITC 45  Tel: (319) 273 2492 
e-mail: Liping.Guo@uni.edu

Degrees:
Ph. D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 2006.
M. S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 2001.
B. Eng in Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, China,1997.

Research/Teaching Interests:
Power Electronics
Digital Control
Embedded Systems
Nonlinear and Robust Control 
Fuzzy Logic
Adaptive control 
Sliding mode control
Neural networks
Digital Signal Processing
 
Our Part Time/Adjunct  Instructors are greatly appreciated for their excellent teaching duties at UNI, in addition to their daily responsibilites in John Deere PEC, Hawkeye CC, & NIACC.
Dr. Bruce Upchurch,  Ph.D.  Agricultural Engineering, Purdue Univesrity, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Instrumentation Engineering, LabView Data Acquistion and Control Systems, Novel instrumentation solutions to support Component Testing,Development of training material, training instructors, scheduling training sessions and identifying training needs.

Dr. Taner Tuken, Ph.D. and MS Mechanical Engineering Iowa State University, 
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, BS ME
Power Technology, Mechanical, Fluid and Pneumatic Power and Control Systems.
 
Mr. Jerry Farrell, ED.S. University of Iowa, M.A UNI, BSEE University of Iowa. 
Analog and Digital Electronics/Communications.

Mr. Clifford J. Salmons,  MEd Iowa State University, BA UNI.
Programmable Logic Controllers, Assembly Language, Electronics Devices and Circuits.

Updated October 30, 2006 by Dr. R. Pecen
 
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