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2003 - 2004 Visiting Scholar Directory
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Atzori, Luigi
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Research: Speed-Up of Telecommunication Network Simulations Based on Fractal Analysis of Input Traffic
University of Arizona, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tucson, AZ, c/o Prof. Marwan M. Krunz
November 2003 - June 2004

Basnyat, Divas
Consultant, National Water Plan, Water and Energy Commission Secretariat, Kathmandu, Nepal
Research: A Decision Support System for River Basin Planning and Management
Columbia University, Henry Krumb School of Mines, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Upmanu Lall
September 2003 - March 2004

Berdouzi, Brahim
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National School of Mineral Industry, Rabat, Morocco
Research: Industrial Gas Cleaning and Pollution Control: Survey and Case Studies
University of Florida, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, FL, c/o Dr. Chang-Yu Wu
June 2003 - August 2003

Bonfiglioli, Aldo
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Environmental Physics, Basilicata University, Potenza, Italy
Research: Accurate Heat Transfer Calculations Using Fully Unstructured Grids
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Prof. Philip Laurence Roe
October 2003 - April 2004

Bonifaz Conto, Edison
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Superior Polytechnic School of Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador
Research: Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior in Single-Pass Welds
University of Illinois--Chicago, College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, Chicago, IL, c/o Dr. J. Ernesto Indacochea
July 2003 - February 2004

Chiang Sanchez, Luciano
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Research: Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles: Applications in Mining, Forestry, and Agriculture
Carnegie Mellon University, National Robotics Engineering Consortium, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. John Bares
October 2003 - January 2004

Coulibaly, Yezouma
Lecturer, Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Sanitation Engineering, Inter-State School of Engineers for Rural Equipment (EIER), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Research: Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Industry
North Carolina State University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Raleigh, NC, c/o Dr. Richard Johnson
August 2003 - December 2003

Dedic, Remzo
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Research: Mechanization of Above-Knee Prosthesis
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. Jaramaz Branislav
October 2003 - June 2004

Dlodlo, Mqhele
Dean, Faculty of Industrial Technology, National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Research: Advances Towards Fourth Generation Communication Systems Applications: Standardization, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights, and Internet-Based Teaching
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Faculty Development Institute, Educational Technologies, Blacksburg, VA, c/o Dr. John F. Moore
August 2003 - February 2004

Flores-Tlacuahuac, Antonio
Professor, Department of Sciences, Ibero-American University, Mexico City, Mexico
Research: Optimal Control of Open-Loop Unstable Polymerization Reaction Processes
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. Lorenz Biegler
January 2004 - September 2004

Ghandourah, Emad
Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Engineering Department, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Research: Design of Neutron Radiographic Facility Using Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code
Purdue University, School of Nuclear Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, c/o Dr. Lefteri Tsoukalas
March 2004 - December 2004

Ghosh, Arindam
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Lecturing: Grid Connection of Inverters for Distributed Generation
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign, Power and Energy Systems Area, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Champaign, IL, c/o Dr. M.A. Pai
May 2003 - July 2003

Haddad, Marwan
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, An-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank
Research: Transboundary Institution for Wastewater Management in the Middle East
University of Texas- Austin, Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, Austin, TX, c/o Dr. David Eaton
October 2003 - July 2004

Hauser, Hans
Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Electronics and Material Science, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Research: Wireless and Passive Magneto-Optical Sensors
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, College of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ames, IA, c/o Prof. David C. Jiles
August 2003 - February 2004

Heneghan, Conor
Lecturer, Department of Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Research: Signal Processing Perspectives on Multi-Carrier Communications
Stanford University, Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory, Stanford, CA, c/o Prof. John M. Cioffi
July 2003 - July 2004

Hierro Alvarez, Juan Pablo
Assistant Professor, Department of Fluid Mechanics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Research: Small-Scale Models to Simulate Turbulent Combustion
Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, MD, c/o Prof. Charles Meneveau
March 2004 - February 2005

Huang, Kuo-Chen
Senior Staff, National Police Administration, Criminal Investigation Bureau, Ministry of the Interior, Taipei, Taiwan
Research: Safety Management From a Macroergonomic Perspective
University of Wisconsin--Madison, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Madison, WI, c/o Dr. Michael J. Smith
July 2003 - May 2004

Kerschen, Gaetan
Research Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Research: Modal Analysis in Non-Linear Structural Dynamics
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Champaign, IL, c/o Prof. Lawrence Bergman
March 2004 - October 2004

Kocov, Atanas
Associate Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia
Research: Development and Application of Polymer-Matrix Composites
University of Washington, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seattle, WA, c/o Dr. Mark Tuttle
January 2004 - September 2004

Koziel, Slawomir
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Department of Telecommunications and Informatics, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
Research: Analysis and Design of Continuous-Time Transconductance-Capacitor Filters
Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical Engineering, College Station, TX, c/o Dr. Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio
September 2003 - May 2004

Lopez-Suevos Fraguela, Francisco
Postdoctoral Researcher, Higher Technical Engineering School, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Research: The Influence of Phenolic Additives on the Durability of Poly (Vinyl Acetates) Latex Adhesives
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Blacksburg, VA, c/o Dr. Charles E. Frazier
October 2003 - September 2005

Louvier Hernandez, Jose
Doctoral Candidate, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Materials Laboratory, Queretaro, Mexico
Research: Supercritical Fluid-Based Biopolymer Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
Auburn University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn, AL, c/o Dr. Ram B. Gupta
July 2003 - June 2004

Martin Fernandez, Marcos
Assistant Professor, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Research: Probabilistic Modelling for Tensor Data
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Boston, MA, c/o Dr. Carl Fredrik Westin
March 2004 - February 2005

Minguez Solana, Roberto
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Research: Safety, Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis in Civil Engineering Works, Using Decomposition Techniques
Cornell University, Department of Statistical Sciences, Ithaca, NY, c/o Prof. Ali S. Hadi
March 2004 - February 2005

Ngundam, John
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
Research: Electric Power Systems Bulk Load Point Modeling as Virtual Generators
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, c/o Dr. Vladimir Koritarov
September 2003 - June 2004

Nowbuth, Manta
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
Research: Application of the Principles of Geophysics to Evaluate the Dynamism of Salt Water Movement in a Coastal Aquifer
United States Geological Survey, Desert/Eastern Sierra Area Program, Reston, VA, c/o Dr. John Izbicki
March 2004 - November 2004

Ould Lahoucine, Cherif
Head of Research, Thermal Laboratory, Center for the Development of Renewable Energies, Algiers, Algeria
Research: Application of the Molecular Dynamic Simulation to Boiling Heat Transfer
Georgia Institute of Technology, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, GA, c/o Dr. Yogendra Joshi
October 2003 - September 2004

Perez Palomar, Daniel
Researcher, Department of Signals, Sensors and Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Research: Fundamental Limits on Wireless Multiuser Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) Ad-Hoc Networks
Princeton University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton, NJ, c/o Prof. Sergio Verdú
March 2004 - February 2006

Plazl, Igor
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Research: Modeling of Activated Sludge Processes
Oregon State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Corvallis, OR, c/o Dr. Goran Jovanovic
September 2003 - February 2004

Rothschild, Avner
Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Materials Engineering, TECHNION -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Research: Advanced Gas Sensor Technology Based on Integration of Semiconducting Metal-Oxide Thin Films With Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) for Novel Applications
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Harry L. Tuller
July 2003 - July 2004

Shabana, Yasser
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical Design Department, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
Lecturing and Research: Fracture-Noise Response of the Functionally Graded Materials
University of Maryland--College Park, Office of International Programs, College Park, MD, c/o Dr. Saul Sosnowski
February 2004 - February 2005

Somaratna, Arukatti Patabandige Nihal
Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Research: Finite Elements for the Analysis of Layered Composites Based on the Stroh Formalism of Anisotropic Elasticity
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. Anthony Waas
February 2004 - October 2004

Stojkovic, Nino
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Research: A New Design of Electronic Filters for Communication Equipment
Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical Engineering, College Station, TX, c/o Dr. Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio
August 2003 - June 2004

Suebsomran, Anan
Lecturer, Faculty of Technical Education, Department of Teacher Training in Mechanical Engineering, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology-North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Research: Adaptive NeuroControl of The IEEE Grumman F14 Benchmark Problem
University of California--Davis, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department, Davis, CA, c/o Dr. Sanjay S. Joshi
June 2004 - December 2004

Tan, Ming Jen
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research: Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Factors and Impediments
University of California--Los Angeles, The Anderson School of Management, International Management Program, Los Angeles, CA, c/o Dr. Hans Schollhammer
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Heizer Center of Entrepreneurial Studies, Evanston, IL, c/o Dr. Morton Kamien
January 2004 - May 2004

Zak, Jacek
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Working Machines and Transport, Institute of Machines and Motorvehicles, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Lecturing and Research: Modeling and Optimization of Transportation Decision Problems
University of California--Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Carlos F. Daganzo
September 2003 - May 2004

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