Directory
Alexander
Mamishev
, Assistant Professor and EEIC Director
Phone: (206)
221-5729
Email: mamishev@ee.washington.edu
Room:
215K EE/CSE
Professor Mamishev serves as Director of SEAL (Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory) and the EEIC (Electric Energy Industrial Consortium). SEAL's lab mission is to create new sensor and automation technology applications in such fields as power engineering, non-destructive testing, and manufacturing control using latest advances in signal processing, robotics, and communications. Active projects in the lab are areas of power quality, underground cable maintenance, sensors, and energy-efficient devices. His recent accomplishments include: Best paper in the session award in Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics Conference, 2001; Outstanding IEEE Branch Advisor Award, 2001; nominated for the UW CoE Outstanding Faculty Award, UW EE Outstanding Teaching Award, and for UW EE Outstanding Research Advisor Award, 2001; and receiving an NSF CAREER Award, 2001.
Richard D. Christie, Associate Professor
Phone: (206) 543-9689
Email: christie@ee.washington.edu
Room: 222 EE/CSE
Professor Christie is presently working in the technical areas of distribution reliability and deregulation. When he is not engaged in this research, Professor Christie places a great emphasis on developing educational programs and curriculum within the EE department. Recently, he has served as the Department ABET Coordinator for EC (2000) as well as conducting research with the NSF Combined Research/Curriculum grant, (1998-01). Presently, Prosfessor Christie serves as the EE Department's Undergraduate Coordinator.
Mark J. Damborg, Professor
Phone: (206) 543-9667
Email: damborg@ee.washington.edu
Room: M406 EE/CSE
Since 1969, Professor Damborg has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Recently, Professor Damborg has published papers on Wide-Area Adaptive Protection under the EPRI/DoD SPID grant and worked with Professor Liu on Web-based Tutoring. He has also received many honors during his career including: the Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (1991), the Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan (1969), and a Fulbright Fellowship, Delft Technological University (1966).
Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Professor and Associate Chair
Phone: (206) 685-2286
Email: elsharkawi@ee.washington.edu
Room: 307N EE/CSE
Professor El-Sharkawi pioneered, with Professors Marks and Damborg, the technology of Dynamics and Security Assessment using neural networks. This technology is developed in collaboration with British Columbia Hydro. He and Professor Marks also pioneered the technology of electric load forecasting using neural networks. The methodology is the most widely used among all applications of neural networks to the power systems. Professor El-Sharkawi is currently serving as the Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Neural Networks Society and has recently written a textbook published by Brooks/Cole entitled Fundamentals of Electric Drives. He has also founded and chaired numerous conferences and meetings for the IEEE Neural Networks Society.
Kai Strunz, Assistant Professor
Phone: (206) 543-2386
Email: strunz@ee.washington.edu
Room: 215J EE/CSE
Professor Strunz joined the University of Washington in April 2002 with significant international research experience in both university and industry. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Strunz pursued research at Brunel University in London and in collaboration with the National Grid Company in the fields of power system control and stabilization, transients, and power system modeling. From 1997 to 2002, he worked at Electricite de France (EDF) in the Paris area and pioneered methodology for the efficient and accurate real time digital simulation of electromagnetic transients in combined power and power electronic systems. In the framework of a collaborative research project, he was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from January 1998 to August 1998. His present interests comprise computer-aided modeling and simulation of electric circuits and networks, numerical methods, transients, power system stability and control, distributed energy systems, and power electronics in energy systems. Recent honors include the award of summa cum laude for the Ph. D. degree from the University of Saarland, Germany, in 2001, and the Dr. Eduard-Martin-Preis for outstanding research from the same institution in 2002.