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Electrical and Computer Engineering Department The University of Alabama in Huntsville Spring 2006 2006 College of Engineering Distinguished Engineer Alumni Dr. Robert Lindquist Three ECE Alumni received prestigious Distinguished Engineer Alumni awards from the College of Engineering in May 2006. Stages Named Director of of the ceremony are pictured below. The citations are on pages 6 & 7. UAH Center for Applied Optics Dr. Robert Lindquist was named Director of the Center for Applied Optics in Fall 2005. Dr. Lindquist returned to the ECE Department as Professor in the Electrical and Optical Engineering programs in August 2003 after spending six years at the Corning Incorporated research facility in Corning, NY. He received both the Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University in 1992 and 1986, respectively. He brought liquid Dr. Haik Biglari and Dean Aunon Listen to the Citation Reading crystal fabrication equipment with him to UAH, adding to existing micro and nanofabrication capabilities. At Corning Incorporated, Dr. Lindquist worked in the areas of liquid crystal devices for optical networking, electronics on glass for display and SOI applications. His work at Corning lead to the product launch of the PurePath™ wavelength selective switch and dynamic spectral equalizer, which was awarded an OFC 2000 Top Ten Product Award. Dr. Lindquist holds eight patents related to his work at Corning. In addition to his teaching as Professor of ECE and his duties as Director of the CAO, Dr. Lindquist will continue his research on optical networking devices and liquid crystal components. He will continue to collaborate with Corning Inc. in the area of electronics on glass for display and RF applications. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, coaching and playing soccer, Dr. William Bishop Receives the Award From Dean Aunon and spending time with his wife, Wendy, and his three children, Ryan, Caitlin, and Jordan. Dr. Claudette Owens Speaks After Receiving the Award UAH Optics Building and Center for Applied Optics Commencement 2005-2006, ECE Graduates Doctors of Philosophy Masters of Science in Engineering (continued) Ashkan Ashrafi Iran Senthil Kumar Dassan …………………………. India Field: Electrical Engineering Electrical Dissertation: “A Quasi-Linear Interpolation Method to Develop a Dennis Wayne Driggers ……………………….. Tyler, TX Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer with Electrical VLSI Implementation” Andria Elise Dyess …………………………….. Montgomery Advisor: Dr. Reza Adhami Computer Adam Kendall Dyess ……………………………Madison Computer William Yancy Bishop Huntsville Sussan Einakian ……………………………… Huntsville Field: Electrical Engineering Computer Dissertation: “Thermal Analysis of Novel Buried Insulator Materials Thomas P. Etheredge ……………………………Huntsville and Geometries for the SOI LDMOSFET and Electrical Resulting Stability in Electrical Performance” David John Fatzer ……………………………… Huntsville Advisor: Dr. Dashen Shen Computer Brian Ray Ganus ………………………………..Huntsville Electrical Zexin Pan Huntsville James Brant Garner ……………………………..Hartselle Field: Computer Engineering Electrical Dissertation: “Hardware Supported Task Scheduling on Dynamically Thesis:"Spectral Estimation of Signals with Reconfigurable SOC Architectures” Missing Data Blocks" Advisor: Dr. B. Earl Wells Advisor: Dr. Alexander Poularikas Brian Eugene Grantham…………………………Athens Electrical Zayed M. Ramadan Jordan Thesis: “Two-Axis MEMS Gyroscope with Field: Electrical Engineering Electrostatic Drive and Piezoelectric Pickoff” Dissertation: “Adaptive Filtering Algorithms With Error Advisor: Dr. Jennifer English Normalization” Nathan Michael Hanish …………………………Madison Advisor: Dr. Alexander Poularikas Computer Thomas Allen Hogue…………………………… Harvest Electrical Yahya Mohammad Suleiman Tashtoush Huntsville William Craig Ivey…………………………….. Clinton, MS Field: Computer Engineering Electrical Dissertation: “Applying Fuzzy Logic and Reinforcement Learning to Dreamlyn S. Johnson…………………………… Newport News, VA Track a Mobile Target Using a Wireless Sensor Computer Network” Julian Johnson………………………………….. Cincinnati. OH Advisor: Dr. B. Earl Wells Electrical Thomas Kanik IV……………………………… Madison Electrical Thesis: “Long Wave Infrared Liquid Crystal ________________________________________________________________ Tunable Thin Film Filler” Advisor: Dr. Robert Lindquist Michael S. Karle…………………………………Hartselle Masters of Science in Engineering Computer Thesis: “Software Inspired Hardware Design Robert Daniel Alferink …………………………………. Huntsville for Radar Application” Electrical Advisor: Dr. B. Earl Wells Naresh Kumar Balasubramanian ………………………..India Allis Marie Kennedy…………………………… Huntsville Electrical Computer Stephanie Elaine Brown …………………………………Huntsville Santha Mohan Manoj Kumar……………………Huntsville Electrical Electrical Jared Robert Bruns ………………………………………St. Charles, MO Larry Jay Levitt………………………………… Bronx, NY Electrical Electrical Terry Dean Buhler ……………………………………….Huntsville Tatum Delon Lindsey………………………….. Huntsville Electrical Electrical Brian W. Burkhardt …………………………………….. Huntsville Timothy Wayne Lindsey……………………….. Huntsville Electrical Electrical Thesis: “An Implementation of Ambulatory, Wire-Free Single-Lead Brooks Anthony Lombardy…………………….. Atlanta, GA Electrocardiograph Telemetry” Computer Advisor: Dr. Reza Adhami Kaushik Macherla………………………………. India Ronald Alexander Burns ……………………………….. Huntsville Electrical Computer Timothy Brian Medley…………………………. Huntsville Woo-Hyuck Choi ……………………………………….. Huntsville Electrical Electrical Thesis: “Field Programmable Gate Array Thesis: “The Capacitive Transduction Techniques Complex Logic Block in Adiabatic Form” for the Liquid Crystal-Based Chemical Advisor: Dr. Fat Ho and Biological Sensor” Jong Wook Noh …………………………………Korea Advisor: Dr. Robert Lindquist Electrical Samuel G. Clayton ……………………………………… New Market Christopher Aaron Otto …………………………Huntsville Electrical Computer Jason Howard Cuneo …………………………………….Inverness, FL Thesis: “An Implementation of a Wireless Body Electrical Area Network for Ambulatory Health Monitoring” Advisor: Dr. Emil Jovanov ECE Dept., UAH 2 Real Time, Spring 2006 Masters of Science in Engineering (continued) Bachelors of Science in Engineering (continued) Sridhar Pathina …………………………………………. India Electrical Koushik Kumar Ghosh (Electrical) …………………….. Huntsville Ramnath Rajagopalan…………………………………… India John Phillip Gober (Computer) ………………………… Huntsville Electrical Xue Sheng Brandon Gu (Electrical) …………………… Athens Thesis: “Image Acquisition and Analysis to Roger Dale Guthrie (Electrical) ……………………….. Hartselle Measure the Def1ection of a Microcantilever” Jonathan Braun Hanks (Electrical) …………….. ……… Brentwood, TN Advisor: Mr. David B. Pollock Sarah Jones Hard (Electrical) ………………….. ……… Fayetteville, TN Ogirala Rajasekhar……………………………………… India Derek Austin Harkins (Computer) ……………………... Harvest Electrical Michael Fielding Holt (Optical)………………………… Huntsville Lee Alice Ray ……………………………………………Huntsville Ashley Nicole Hunt (Electrical) ………………………... Huntsville Electrical Jonathan Thomas Ibarra (Electrical) …………... ……… Huntsville Thesis: “Dual Tree Discrete Wavelet Transform Joseph Louis Icard (Electrical) ………………… ……… Huntsville with Application to Image Fusion” Brandon Michael Ijames (Electrical) …………………… Phil Campbell Advisor: Dr. Reza Adhami Marcus Lonnell Johnson (Electrical) …………………… Tuscaloosa James Carlos Romine III…………………………………Athens Jason Alan Keener (Electrical) …………………………. Leoma, TN Electrical Peter Donald Kessler (Electrical) ………………………. Huntsville Jeena Rani Sadhakkathulla …………………….. ……… India Gayle Michelle Kuby (Computer) ……………………… Decatur Electrical Peter Joseph Landers (Electrical) ………………………. Montgomery Michael Anthony Sims ………………………… ………. Cullman James Ray LeBlanc (Electrical) …………………………Huntsville Electrical Quentin Walker Lowe (Electrical) ……………..………. Huntsville Thesis: “Demonstration of a Semi-Active Franklin Ludgood (Computer) ……………….…………Mobile Eight-Element Linear Phased Array” Richard Moises Lizama Manglona (Electrical) ………… Guam Advisor: Dr. John Stensby Jacquelyn Michelle Kuzmic Mayes (Computer)…………Sardis Nicolas Spiegelberg…………………………….. ………. Huntsville Matthew Robert McDougal (Computer)……….. ………. Fayetteville. TN Computer Reggie Wayne McMurtrey (Computer) ……….. ……… Florence Arun Srinivasan ………………………………………….India Eduardo Ixtlixochitl Medina (Electrical)……….. ………. Madison Electrical Brandon Jay Miller (Electrical) ………………………… Crossville Surya Prakash Vallabhaneni …………………… ………. Huntsville Emily Michele Miller (Optical) ………………………… Mobile Electrical Brian Morris (Electrical) ………………………. ……… Chattanooga, TN Kevin W. Welsch ……………………………………….. Huntsville Michael G. Murphy II (Electrical) ……………………… Flintville, TN Electrical Mitchell Blake Neilan (Electrical) ……………………… Winchester, TN Scott Corey Wolfson …………………………………….Harvest Jeb Stuart Orr (Computer) ……………………………… Philadelphia, PA Electrical Joshua Steven Parker (Computer & Electrical)… ……… Decatur Thesis: “Program, Erase, and Read Transient Jonathan Arthur Parks (Computer & Electrical)……….. Winchester, TN Models for a Flash EEPROM” Kelvin Pettway (Electrical) ……………………………. Boykin Advisor: Dr. Fat Ho Leif Allen Pitcock (Computer) ………………………… Center Star Manoj Yegnaraman ………………………………………Huntsville Timothy Seth Pitt (Electrical) …………………………... Arab Electrical Amy Lynn Ratledge (Electrical) ……………………….. Huntsville Thesis: “Microcantilever Sensor Using Second Steven B. Rauseo (Electrical) …………………………. Huntsville Order Sliding Mode Control” Errol Reid (Electrical) ………………………………….