Faculty

Faculty Member Ravel Ammerman
Dr. Ammerman specializes in undergraduate education and conducts research in the areas of electrical safety, computer applications related to energy systems, and engineering education. Dr. Ammerman is the co-project manager for the IEEE/NFPA Arc Flash Collaborative Research and Testing Project.

Faculty Member William Hoff
William Hoff's research interests include computer vision and pattern recognition, with applications in robotics, video aided navigation, medical imaging, activity recognition, and augmented reality.

Faculty Member Kathryn Johnson
Kathryn Johnson's research interests focus on control systems, particularly applied to wind energy. Her recent projects have examined ways to reduce the cost of wind energy by using control to increase the energy captured without increasing system cost.

Faculty Member Kevin Moore
Professor Moore is the G.A. Dobelman Distinguished Chair and Professor of Engineering. He is a well-known researcher in the areas of autonomous control and robotics, with a particular focus on the subject of iterative learning control.

Faculty Member Jeff Schowalter
Dr. Schowalter received a BA degree in General Studies from the University of WI-Milwaukee, BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of WI-Madison. Before joining CSM, he was a controls engineer for Tyco Fire and Building Products. Previous to that, he worked as a faculty associate for the University of WI-Madison, as a technical specialist for McDonnell Douglas Space Systems at Kennedy Space Center, and as an active duty engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Faculty Member Marcelo Simoes
The area of Power Electronics is really exciting because it is applied in many sectors of our everyday life. For example, power electronics is used in computers, automobiles, telecommunications, motors, lighting and alternative energy (solar and wind energy applications). The main areas for power electronics engineering and research include: electronic devices, control and regulation, power converter circuit of various topologies for converter circuits, magnetic components, electronic circuit packaging, manufacturing and control of electrical motors.

Faculty Member Catherine Skokan
My research interests include engineering applications of geophysics, groundwater exploration and contamination studies, especially in the arena of humanitarian engineering, curriculum development, and K-12 outreach.

Faculty Member Siddharth Suryanarayanan
Sid Suryanarayanan's primary research interests in electric power systems are in the areas of design, operation, control, and economics of sustainable microgrids. Secondary research interests are in application of systems-based approaches to electric power markets and the relationship between climate change and the electric power industry.

Faculty Member Tyrone Vincent
Tyrone Vincent's research interests are in system identification and estimation, with applications in areas such as augmented reality, video aided navigation, automated welding, and semiconductor and photovoltaic manufacturing.

Faculty Member Michael Wakin
Michael Wakin's research interests include sparse, geometric, and manifold-based models for signal and image processing, approximation, compression, compressive sensing, and dimensionality reduction.

Faculty Member Manoja D. Weiss
My research focus is electromagnetic waves in communication and sensing. Current projects include robot repositioning for enhanced wireless reception, development of biomedical instrumentation, and millimeterware imaging.