ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Department Chair of Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University
Professor Dolan is the Department Chair of Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University with experience in renewable energy projects, education and advanced motor drives. He has published research on the construction of a wind turbine emulator using advanced motor drives and on the modeling and construction of a novel virtual air gap variable reactor. He is past chair on the board of directors of Windy Hills Caledon Renewable Energy, past chair of the OSEA (Ontario Sustainable Energy Association) Board and was an executive chair of the 7th World Wind Energy Conference 2008 (WWEC 2008). He is a past member of the management committee for the Ontario Green Energy Act campaign striving to implement the most progressive renewable energy policy in North America. His research interests involves sustainable/renewable energy generation, wind power generation, power systems, electromagnetics, power electronic applications for distributed generation, grid connection impacts of renewable generation, energy policy promoting widespread implementation of sustainable power generation, sustainable energy project economics and sustainability of technologies. He is committed to making renewable energy a strong component of the world's supply mix to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
Dennis Derickson received his BS, MS and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from South Dakota State University (1981), the University of Wisconsin- Madison (1982) and the University of California - Santa Barbara in 1992. His farming background and youth ham radio hobby heavily influenced his career in engineering. He earned his State Farmer degree (Minnesota) with the FFA organization. In the world of radio he received the extra class amateur license (AC0P) and a first-class radiotelephone commercial license. He joined the research and development laboratories of Hewlett Packard (HP) in Santa Rosa, CA in 1982. 1980‘s project development activities included spectrum analyzer and vector network analyzer electronic measurement instrumentation. His Ph.D. work (1988-1992) involved design, fabrication and test of single-chip pulsed semiconductor lasers for data communication applications. Dr. Derickson managed multiple project teams at HP for high-speed communication test systems in the 1990s. He moved into the director of product marketing role at a start-up company called Cierra Photonics in Santa Rosa, CA in 2000. After 21 years in industry, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University in 2005. He served as department chair from 2010 to 2020. Research activities have focused on applications of semiconductor lasers, wireless communication systems, and rf/microwave/mm-wave electronics. He is the editor of two books; Fiber Optics Test and Measurement (1997) and Digital Communication Test and Measurement (2008). With many collaborators he has created 90 publications and 7 patents. He is a founding member of the company Insight Photonics Solutions that is commercializing research initiated at Cal Poly (http://www.sweptlaser.com/). His outreach activities have focused on creating and running summer science camps for Jr. High and Sr. High groups at Cal Poly and through the California 4H Youth Development Program. His current activities include Industry/Alumni research partnerships, entrepreneurship, enabling a project-rich hands-on environment for diverse students, and supporting a strong graduate research program. Dr. Derickson is a Professional Engineer in the State of California and enjoys helping others with his expertise.
80. Maria Manzano, Emma Della, Gerome Cacho, Drew Miller and Dennis Derickson, "Evaluation on a new virtual program format, does an engineering summer camp program evolve and adapt to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population during a pandemic? 2021 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition July 26-29, 2021.
2. Dennis Derickson (editor), Fiber Optic Test and Measurement, Prentice- Hall 1998. ISBN0-13-534330-5. This is a book that has sold over 14,000 copies to date.
Job Titles:
- Professor, Graduate Coordinator
Dr. Jane Zhang was born in Shanghai, China. She received her Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1997, and her Ph. D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2002. In 1997 she was involved in the development of motion compensation related video compression techniques at the Telecommunications Institute at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She also worked at Motorola Human-Interface Lab in Palo Alto in 2000 conducting research in biometric speaker verification. In 2003 she joined California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where she is currently a Professor and Graduate Coordinator. She was on the review panel on CISE REU Sites from National Science Foundation in 2006. In summer of 2007, she participated in international research collaboration with the Institute of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System at Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the Wang Family Fellowship. In 2010, she is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Media Innovation from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2019, she is a visiting professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences in Germany under the MUAS Fellowship Programm. Her research interests are in the areas of digital signal and image processing, computer vision, statistical modeling, machine learning, and multimodal interaction.
Education
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002
EE student Juan David Gonzalez checks out algae as a part of a project using electricity to get biofuel from algae.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Professor Emeritus
Job Titles:
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
- Senior Member of IEEE
Payam Nayeri received the B.Sc. degree in applied physics in 2004 from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2007 from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2012 from the University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA. From 2014 to 2022 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines holding various positions. He joined the Electrical Engineering department at California Polytechnic State University as an Assistant Professor in 2022. His research interests are in wireless communication systems with a focus on surface electromagnetics, antennas and phased arrays, reflectarrays and array lenses, digital arrays and array processing, microwave and millimeter-wave devices, and application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and mathematical programming techniques to these domains. His work has been funded by government and industry research grants such as by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Keysight Technologies, and National Instruments, totaling over $1.4 million. He is the lead author of the book Reflectarray Antennas: Theory, Designs, and Applications (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018), and has authored/co-authored three books and over 95 journal articles and conference papers.
Prof. Nayeri is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of URSI (Commission B), and since 2019, has been serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He's also a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He serves on the steering and organizing committee of several international symposiums, such IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and IEEE International Microwave Symposium. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award in 2010, the University of Mississippi Graduate Achievement Award in Electrical Engineering in 2011, Best Student Paper Award at the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium in 2013, National Instruments Academic Research Award in 2017, and the Electrical Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award at Colorado School of Mines in 2021. His students have also received notable awards such as the 2019 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship, and the 2019 IEEE AP-S SPC honorable mention.
Dr. Vyas joined Cal Poly's Electrical Engineering Department as a full-time lecturer in the fall of 2017.
Mr. Dunton joined Cal Poly's EE faculty in 2017 with over thirty years of engineering experience focused primarily on satellite payloads and electronics development. He has led multiple technology insertion programs for Boeing Satellite Systems, including the Australian Defense Force's UHF Hosted Payload and Boeing's Generation 6 and 7 digital channelizers. He continues to consult part-time in the space industry.
Vladimir (Vlado) Prodanov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He attended the Technical University of Sofia for four years before leaving for the US. After spending one year in NY City, working various odd jobs, he became a graduate student in EE Dept., State University of NY at Stony Brook. Vladimir earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1995 and 1997 and joined Bell Labs-Research at Murray Hill, NJ. He remained with Bell Labs (Lucent Tech.) and subsequently with Agere Systems until 2004. From 2004 to 2008 Dr. Prodanov was with MHI Consulting, LLC. In 2006 Vladimir co-founded Blue Danube Labs, Inc. and served as its CTO for two years. Dr. Prodanov has taught analog and RF integrated circuits at the State University of NY at Stony Brook and Columbia University and he is a named inventor of 21 US patents. Dr. Prodanov joined the Cal Poly EE Dept. in 2009 where he currently holds the rank of professor of Electrical Engineering.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 1997
M.S., Electrical Engineering, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 1995.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Coordinator