Iowa State University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Students

Graduate Students

  • Suresh Hariharan (Electrical Engineering, MS 1990)
  • Michael Devine (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 1992)
  • Alan Eichmann (Electrical Engineering, MS 1992)
  • Levent Sipahi (Physics, MS 1992)
  • Jennifer Thoelke (Physics, MS 1992)
  • David Kaminski (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 1994)
  • Russell Chung (Electrical Engineering, MS 1991, PhD 1999)
  • Patricia Pulvirenti (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 1996)
  • Zhao Jun Chen (Electrical Engineering, PhD 1994 ) *
  • Andrew Strom (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 1994)
  • Mark Negley (Electrical Engineering, MS 1997)
  • Zhan Gao (Electrical Engineering, MS 1995)
  • Achalu Ramesh (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 1996)
  • Ying Bi (Electrical Engineering, MS 1997, PhD 1998) *
  • Drew Delaney (Materials Science and Engineering, with T.Lograsso,  MS 1998)
  • Hui Cao (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 1998)
  • Ruoqi Chen (Electrical Engineering, MS 1999)*
  • Yonghua Chen (Materials Science and Engineering, PhD 1999)
  • Fei Tang (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 1999)
  • Bin Zhu (Electrical Engineering, PhD 2001)*
  • Mangui Han (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 2002, PhD 2004)
  • Yuping Shen (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 2003)
  • Jeff Leib (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 2003)#
  • Junyoul Lee (Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS 2003)
  • Lu Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS 2003, PhD 2004)
  • Bryan Baker (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 2003)
  • Jason Paulsen (Mechanical Engineering, MS 2004)
  • Sang Hoon Song (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 2005, PhD 2007)
  • Emily Kinser (Materials Science and Engineering, MS 2005)
  • Andrew Ring (Information Technology, MS 2006)
  • Naresh Ranvah (Electrical and Electronic Engineering, PhD 2010)
  • Ravi Hadimani (Electrical and Electronic Engineering, PhD 2010)
  • Esaindang Umenei (Electrical and Electronic Engineering, PhD 2010)
  • Arun Kumar (Electrical and Electronic Engineering, PhD 2010)
  • Lukasz Mierczak (Electrical and Electronic Engineering, PhD 2011)
  • Lawrence Crowther (Electrical and Electronic Engineering, PhD 2012)
  • Orpheus Kypris (Electrical Engineering, PhD 2013)

* Winners of Iowa State University Research Excellence Award for thesis work
# Winner of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Postgraduate Theses Supervised

  1. "Development of instrumentation for magnetic nondestructive evaluation." S.Hariharan, MS, Iowa State University, 1990.

  2. "A laser diode magnetostrictive Terfenol-D magnetometer." R.Chung, MS, Iowa State University, 1990.

  3. "Development and applications of a new computer controlled magnetic inspection system." A.R.Eichmann, MS, Iowa State University, 1992.

  4. "Stress dependence of the magnetic properties of steels." M.K.Devine, MS, Iowa State University, 1992.

  5. "Micromagnetic surface studies of materials for nondestructive evaluation." L.B.Sipahi, MS, Iowa State University, 1992.

  6. "Magnetization and magnetostriction in highly magnetostrictive materials." J.B.Thoelke, MS, Iowa State University, 1993.

  7. "Magnetic property measurements for the evaluation of fatigue in steels." A.C.Strom, MS, Iowa State University, 1994.

  8. "Angular dependence of magnetic properties of steels under stress." D.A.Kaminski, MS, Iowa State University, 1994.

  9. "Measurement and modelling of structure sensitive magnetic properties of materials." Z.J.Chen, PhD, Iowa State University, 1994. (Iowa State University Research Excellence Award Winner).

  10. "The implementation and applications of a hysteresis model." Z.Gao, MS, Iowa State University, 1995.

  11. "Magnetoelastic properties of Terfenol-D under time dependent applied magnetic fields", P.P.Pulvirenti, MS, Iowa State University, 1996.

  12. “Effects of localized defects and anisotropy on the magnetization behavior of nickel”, A.Ramesh, MS, Iowa State University, 1996.

  13. “Dynamic variations of the magnetic properties of steel due to cyclic loading”, Y.Bi, MS, Iowa State University, 1997. (Iowa State University Research Excellence Award Winner).

  14. “Measurement of magnetic phenomena for determination of critical component lifetime”, M.Negley, MS, Iowa State University, 1998.

  15. “Magnetostriction of eutectic and dendritic terbium-zinc”, D.W.Delaney, MS, Iowa State University, 1998.

  16. “Measurements and modeling of the effects of orthogonal bias field on properties of isotropic magnetic materials”, Y.Bi, PhD, Iowa State University, 1998.

  17. “Steel microstructure characterization by magnetic nondestructive evaluation”, H.Cao, MS, Iowa State University, 1998.

  18. "Measurement of magnetic property improvements resulting from materials processing of high permeability soft magnetic materials", R.Chen, MS, Iowa State University, 1999. (Iowa State University Research Excellence Award Winner).

  19. “Design, fabrication and analysis of a portable Terfenol-D based magnetostrictive diode laser external cavity sensor with advanced signal processing capability”, R.Chung, PhD, Iowa State University, 1999.

  20. "Application of magnetic NDE techniques to the fatigue of ferrous alloys", F.Tang, MS, Iowa State University, 1999.

  21. "Development of highly magnetostrictive composites for applications in magnetomechanical torque sensors", Y.H.Chen, PhD, Iowa State University, 1999.

  22. "Non-linear irreversible magnetization processes in magnetic materials: instrumentation, measurements, modeling and applications", B.Zhu, PhD, Iowa State University, 2001. (Iowa State University Research Excellence Award Winner).

  23. “Thermal expansion studies on the magnetic-crystallographic transformation of Gd5(SixGe1-x)4”, M.G.Han, MS, Iowa State University, 2002.

  24. “Development of high sensitivity materials for applications in magnetomechanical torque sensors”, Y.P.Shen, MS, Iowa State University, 2003.

  25. “Correlation between domain behavior and magnetic properties of materials”, J.S.Leib, MS, Iowa State University, 2003.

  26. “Investigation of magnetomechanical behaviour of materials: instrumentation, measurement and modeling”, L.Li, MS, Iowa State University, 2003.

  27. “Development of modeling and simulation for magnetic particle inspection using finite elements”, J.Y. Lee, MS, Iowa State University, 2003.

  28. “A model for spin-dependent magnetic junction behavior”, B.Baker, MS, Iowa State University, 2003.

  29. “Development of magnetic stress detection methods involving a cobalt ferrite composite stress sensing material and a magnetic imaging system”, J.A.Paulsen, MS, Iowa State University, 2004.

  30. “Critical behavior of thermal expansion and magnetostriction in the vicinity of the first order transition at the Curie point of Gd5(SixGe1-x)4”, M.Han, PhD, Iowa State University, 2004.

  31. “Effects of stress on the magnetic properties of stainless steel and nickel”, L.Li, PhD, Iowa State University, 2004.

  32. “Examination of magnetic phase transition in Pr(n+2)(n+1)Nin(n-1)+2Sin(n+1) compounds using thermal expansion and magnetostriction”, S.H. Song, MS, Iowa State University, 2005.

  33. “Magnetic nondestructive characterization of case depth in surface-hardened steel”, E.R.Kinser, MS, Iowa State University, 2005.

  34. “Investigation of magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of novel materials involving cobalt ferrite and terbium silicon germanium systems”, A.P.Ring, MS Iowa State University, 2006.

  35. “Design And Development Of Bilayer Sensor Systems For Biomedical And Automotive Applications”, G.S. Katranas, PhD, Cardiff University, 2006. 

  36. “Magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of M-substituted cobalt ferrites (M= Mn, Cr, Ga, Ge)”, S.H.Song, PhD, Iowa State University, 2007.

  37. “Development of Barkhausen Noise Method for Residual Stress Evaluation in Steels”, O. Alasamar, MSc, Cardiff University, 2009.

  38. “Advanced Magnetoelastic and Magnetocaloric Materials for Device Applications”, R.L.Hadimani, PhD, Cardiff University, 2009.

  39. “Investigation and analyis of a magnetic torsion angle sensor”, N.Sawant, MSc, Cardiff University, 2010.

  40. “Investigation of chemically substituted cobalt ferrite for high magnetostriction based sensor and actuator applications”, N. Ranvah, PhD, Cardiff University, 2010.

  41. “Growth, Characterisation and Modelling of Novel Magnetic Thin Films for Engineering Applications”, A.K.Raghunathan, PhD, Cardiff University, 2010.

  42. “Development and Application of Magnetic Modelling to the Design of Power Devices”, E.A.Umenei, PhD, Cardiff University, 2010.

External Examiner for Students

  • Thomas Koble (PhD), University of the Saarland, Germany (1992)
  • Jonathan Makar (PhD), Queen's University, Canada (1993)
  • Ian Reed (PhD), University of Hull, UK (1994)
  • Brian Phelps (PhD), Queen's University, Canada (1997)
  • Matthias Linde (MS), University of the Saarland, Germany (1998)
  • Neil Munns (MSc), University of Hull, UK (2000)
  • Ashis Panda (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (2002)
  • George Loisos (PhD), University of Cardiff, UK (2002)
  • Julian Dean (PhD), University of Sheffield, UK (2007)
  • Seema Kumari (PhD), Bengal University of Engineering, India (2007)
  • John Wilson (PhD), University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (2009)
  • David Ribbenfjard (PhD), Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2010)