The Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's electrical and computer engineering faculty.
Submissions from 2014
Diagnosis of Open-circuit Switch Faults in Multilevel Active-NPC (ANPC) Inverters, Jiangbiao He and Nabeel Demerdash
Diagnosis of Stator Winding Short-circuit Faults in an Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine, Jiangbiao He, Chad Alexander Somogyi, Andrew Strandt, and Nabeel Demerdash
Application of Wide Bandgap Devices in Renewable Energy Systems – Benefits and Challenges, Jiangbiao He, Tiefu Zhao, Xin Jing, and Nabeel Demerdash
Bending Induced Tuning of the Resonant Response of a Flexible THz Metamaterial Device, R. M. Hendrix; H, R. Jones; A. Fosnight; R. Shaver; E. Best; B. Shockey; Ronald A. Coutu Jr.; and Derrick Langley
Palate-referenced Articulatory Features for Acoustic-to-Articulator Inversion, An Ji, Michael T. Johnson, and Jeffrey J. Berry
Loss Balancing SVPWM for Active NPC Converters, Xin Jing, Jiangbiao He, and Nabeel Demerdash
Replication of Known Dental Characteristics in Porcine Skin: Emerging Technologies for the Imaging Specialist, L. Thomas Johnson, Thomas W. Radmer, Dean C. Jeutter, Gary L. Stafford, Joseph Thulin, Thomas Wirtz, George Corliss, Kwang Woo Ahn, Alexis Visotky, and Ronald L. Groffy
Optimal Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Device for Achieving High Pyroelectric Response of AlN, Bemnnet Kebede, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Lavern A. Starman
Comparative Assessment of Diverse Strategies for Malaria Vector Population Control Based on Measured Rates at Which Mosquitoes Utilize Targeted Resource subsets, Gerry F. Killeen, Samson Sifael Kiware, Aklilu Seyoum, John E. Gimnig, George Corliss, Jennifer Stevenson, Christopher J. Drakeley, and Nakul Chitnis
A Novel Process for the Fabrication of Microstructures Half the Listed Minimum Feature Size of a Direct-Write Laser Lithography System, Robert A. Lake and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Thermal Tuning of MEMS Buckled Membrane Actuator Stiffness, Robert A. Lake, Kyle K. Ziegler, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Introducing Nanotechnology into an Undergraduate Microelectronics Course, Chung-Hoon Lee, Susan C. Schneider, and Trevor Thiess
A Flux-weakening Control Approach for Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors Based on Z-source Inverters, Muyang Li, Jiangbiao He, and Nabeel Demerdash
Homogenous Ensemble Phonotactic Language Recognition Based on SVM Supervector Reconstruction, Wei-Wei Liu, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Michael T. Johnson, and Jia Liu
Lightweight Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Huffman Coding, Henry P. Medeiros, Marcos C. Maciel, Richard D. Souza, and Marcelo E. Pellenz
Fabrication of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Cantilevers for Photoacoustic (PA) Detection of Terahertz (THz) Radiation, R. Newberry, Nathan Glauvitz, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Ivan R. Medvedev, and Douglas T. Petkie
Model-Based Edge Detector for Spectral Imagery Using Sparse Spatiospectral Masks, Biliana S. Paskaleva, Sebastian E. Godoy, Woo-Yong Jang, Steven C. Bender, Sanjay Krishna, and Majeed M. Hayat
Reliability of Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems in the Presence of Correlated Failures, Jorge E. Pezoa and Majeed M. Hayat
A Microsoft VBA Application for Generating Heat Maps, Mark Polczynski and Michael Polczynski
Using the k-Means Clustering Algorithm to Classify Features for Choropleth Maps, Mark Polczynski and Michael Polczynski
Application of Information and Communication Technologies for Historical Research, Michael Polczynski and Mark Polczynski
Applying Data Mining Tools to Archaeological "Big Data", Michael Polczynski and Mark Polczynski
Stochastic Analysis of Cascading-Failure Dynamics in Power Grids, Mahshid Rahnamay-Naeini, Zhuoyao Wang, Nasir Ghani, Andrea Mammoli, and Majeed M. Hayat
Towards a Social and Mobile Humanoid Exercise Coach, Darryl Ramgoolam, Elise Russell, and Andrew B. Williams
Non-Local Model for the Spatial Distribution of Impact Ionization Events in Avalanche Photodiodes, David A. Ramirez, Majeed M. Hayat, Andrew S. Huntington, and George M. Williams
Evaluation of Upper Extremity Movement Characteristics during Standardized Pediatric Functional Assessment with a Kinect®-based Markerless Motion Analysis System, Jacob R. Rammer, Joseph J. Krzak, Susan A. Riedel, and Gerald F. Harris
Generalized Approach of Stator Shifting in Interior Permanent-Magnet Machines Equipped with Fractional-Slot Concentrated Windings, Patel B. Reddy, Kum-kang Huh, and Ayman M. EL-Refaie
Development of On-Line Lecture and Preparation Resources for Electrical Engineering Laboratory Courses, Susan C. Schneider and James E. Richie
Timoshenko Beam Model for Lateral Vibration of Liquid-Phase Microcantilever-Based Sensors, Joshua A. Schultz, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, Isabelle Dufour, Nicholas J. Nigro, Luke A. Beardslee, and Oliver Brand
Learning Energy Demand Domain Knowledge via Feature Transformation, Sanzad Siddique and Richard J. Povinelli
A Multi-Modal Continuous-Systems Model of a Novel High-Q Disk Resonator in a Viscous Liquid, Mohamad S. Sotoudegan, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, Isabelle Dufour, and Oliver Brand
Contact Resistance Evolution of Highly Cycled, Lightly Loaded Micro-Contacts, Christopher Stilson and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Micro-contact Resistance of Au-Au on Engineered Contact Surfaces using Gray-scale Lithography, Christopher Stilson and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Reliability Evolution of Au-Au, Au-Ru and Au-RuO2 Micro-Contacts, Christopher Stilson and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Fabrication of 3D surface structures using grayscale lithography, Christopher Stilson, Rajan Pal, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Low Current and High Frequency Miniature Switches: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Metal Contact Switches, Benjamin Toler, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and John W. McBride
Speech Enhancement Using Bayesian Estimators of the Perceptually-Motivated Short-Time Spectral Amplitude (STSA) with Chi Speech Priors, Marek B. Trawicki and Michael T. Johnson
A Microfluidic Device for Thermal Particle Detection, Ashwin Kumar Vutha, Benyamin Davaji, Chung-Hoon Lee, and Glenn M. Walker
Physiologically-motivated Feature Extraction for Speaker Identification, Jianglin Wang and Michael T. Johnson
Reduction of Vibration-Induced Artifacts in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, Qi Wang, Matthew Pepin, Aleck Wright, Ralf Dunkel, Tom Atwood, Balu Santhanam, Walter Gerstle, Armin W. Doerry, and Majeed M. Hayat
Stochastically Resilient Extended Kalman Filtering for Discrete-time Nonlinear Systems with Sensor Failures, Xin Wang and Edwin E. Yaz
Robust and Resilient State-dependent Control of Continuous-time Nonlinear Systems with General Performance Criteria, Xin Wang, Edwin E. Yaz, and James Long
Evaluation of the Importance of Time-Frequency Contributions to Speech Intelligibility in Noise, Chengzhu Yu, Kamil K. Wójcicki, Philipos C. Loizou, John H. L. Hansen, and Michael T. Johnson
FPGA-based Design and Implementation of Direct Torque Control for Induction Machines, Mohammad A. Zare, Rajesh G. Kavasseri, and Cristinel Ababei
Multi-Objective Tradeoffs in the Design Optimization of a Brushless Permanent-Magnet Machine With Fractional-Slot Concentrated Windings, Peng Zhang, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Muyang Li, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, Steven J. Stretz, and Alan W. Yeadon
Isolating the Negative Stiffness Region of a Buckled Si/SiO2 Membrane, Kyle K. Ziegler, Robert A. Lake, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Submissions from 2013
Speech Sensorimotor Learning through a Virtual Vocal Tract, Jeffrey J. Berry, Cassandra North, Benjamin Meyers, and Michael T. Johnson
Forecasting Natural Gas Demand for Electric Power Generation, Ronald H. Brown, George Corliss, and Richard James Povinelli
Cantilever-based Resonant Gas Sensors with Integrated Recesses for Localized Sensing Layer Deposition, C. Carron, P. Getz, J. J. Su, D. S. Gottfried, Fabien Josse, and Stephen M. Heinrich
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Resistive Heaters as Circuit Protection Devices, Ronald A. Coutu Jr. and Scott A. Ostrow
Rotor Bar Fault Monitoring Method Based on Analysis of Air-Gap Torques of Induction Motors, Aderiano da Silva, Nabeel Demerdash, and Richard James Povinelli
Effect of Hydrodynamic Force on Microcantilever Vibrations: Applications to Liquid-Phase Chemical Sensing, I. Dufour, E. Lemaire, B. Caillard, H. Debeda, C. Lucat, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, and O. Brand
Influence of Fluid-Structure Interaction on Microcantilever Vibrations: Applications to Rheological Fluid Measurement and Chemical Detection, Isabelle Dufour, E. Lemaire, B. Caillard, H. Debeda, C. Lucat, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, and Oliver Brand
Robust and Resilient Finite-time Bounded Control of Discrete-time Uncertain Nonlinear Systems, Mohammad N. ElBsat and Edwin E. Yaz
Nonlinear Estimation of Fluid Properties Using the Time Domain Response of a Vibrating Microcantilever, Mohammad N. ElBsat, Edwin E. Yaz, Susan C. Schneider, Isabelle Dufour, and Fabien Josse
Fractional-Slot Concentrated-Windings: A Paradigm Shift in Electrical Machines, Ayman M. EL-Refaie
MEMS Cantilever Sensor for Photoacoustic Detection of Terahertz Radiation, Nathan Glauvitz, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Michael Kistler, Ivan R. Medvedev, and Douglas T. Petkie
A Novel Batch-Processing Method for Accurate Crystallographic Axis Alignment, Jun Hyun Han, Shankar Radhakrishnan, and Chung-Hoon Lee
Markerless Analysis of Upper Extremity Kinematics during Standardized Pediatric Functional Assessment with a Low-Cost Motion Analysis System, Gerald F. Harris and Susan A. Riedel
Diagnosis of Stator Short-circuit Faults in an IPM Synchronous Machine Using a Space-vector Pendulous Oscillation Method, Jiangbiao He, Andrew Strandt, Alia Manarik, Peng Zhang, and Nabeel Demerdash
Dual-Carrier High-Gain Low-Noise Superlattice Avalanche Photodiodes, Jun Huang, Koushik Banerjee, Siddhartha Ghosh, and Majeed M. Hayat
Sliding Mode Observer Based Position Self-sensing Control of a Direct-drive PMSG Wind Turbine System Fed by NPC Converters, Nantao Huang, Jiangbiao He, and Nabeel Demerdash
Articulatory Space Calibration in 3D Electro-Magnetic Articulography, An Ji, Michael T. Johnson, and Jeffrey J. Berry
Discrimination of Individual Tigers (Panthera tigris) from Long Distance Roars, An Ji, Michael T. Johnson, Edward J. Walsh, JoAnn McGee, and Douglas L. Armstrong
Application and Losses Analysis of ANPC Converters in Doubly-Fed Induction Generator Wind Energy Conversion System, Xin Jing, Jiangbiao He, and Nabeel Demerdash
A Frequency Selective Surface Design Fabricated with Tunable RF Meta-Atoms, Derrick Langley, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Peter J. Collins
An Efficient Cost Function for the Optimization of an n-Layered Isotropic Cloaked Cylinder, Jason V. Paul, Peter J. Collins, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
A New Look at Azimuthal Wave Propagation Constants of an n-Layered Dielectric Coated PEC Cylinder, Jason V. Paul, Peter J. Collins, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
An Incremental Update Framework for Efficient Retrieval from Software Libraries for Bug Localization, S. Rao, Henry Medeiros, and Avinash Kak
Timoshenko Beam Effects in Lateral-mode Microcantilever-based Sensors in Liquids, Joshua A. Schultz, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, Nicholas J. Nigro, Isabelle Dufour, Luke A. Beardslee, and Oliver Brand
RNN Language Model with Word Clustering and Class-based Output Layer, Yongzhe Shi, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Jia Liu, and Michael T. Johnson
Automated Multi-Objective Design Optimization of PM AC Machines Using Computationally Efficient FEA and Differential Evolution, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Peng Zhang, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, and Marius Rosu
Effect of Design Parameters on the Rotational Response of a Novel Disk Resonator for Liquid-Phase Sensing: Analytical Results, Mohamad S. Sotoudegan, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, Nicholas J. Nigro, I. Dufour, and O. Brand
Using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy to Assess MEMS Si/SiO2 Membranes Exhibiting Negative Spring Constant Behavior, Lavern A. Starman and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Micro-Contact Performance Characterization of Carbon Nanotube (CNT)-Au Composite Micro-Contacts, Christopher Stilson, Benjamin Toler, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Bayesian Estimation for Tracking of Spiraling Reentry Vehicles, Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal and Robert H. Bishop
Unique Fabrication Method for Novel MEMS Micro-contact Structure, Benjamin Toler, Brent L. Danner, Derrick Langley, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
A Review of Micro-Contact Physics for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Metal Contact Switches, Benjamin F. Toller, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and John W. McBride
Distributed Multichannel Speech Enhancement Based on Perceptually-Motivated Bayesian Estimators of the Spectral Amplitude, Marek B. Trawicki and Michael T. Johnson
Vocal Source Features for Bilingual Speaker Identification, Jianglin Wang and Michael T. Johnson
Multi-Gain-Stage InGaAs Avalanche Photodiode with Enhanced Gain and Reduced Excess Noise, George M. Williams, Madison Compton, David A. Ramirez, Majeed M. Hayat, and Andrew S. Huntington
Discrimination of Photon- and Dark-Initiated Signals in Multiple Gain Stage APD Photoreceivers, George M. Williams, David A. Ramirez, Majeed M. Hayat, and Andrew S. Huntington
Time Resolved Gain and Excess Noise Properties of InGaAs/InAlAs Avalanche Photodiodes with Cascaded Discrete Gain Layer Multiplication Regions, Georges M. Williams, David A. Ramirez, Majeed M. Hayat, and Andrew S. Huntington
Resonant Characteristics of Rectangular Hammerhead Microcantilevers Vibrating Laterally in Viscous Liquid Media, Jinjin Zhang, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, Nicholas J. Nigro, Isabelle Dufour, and Oliver Brand
Morphing Parametric Modeling and Design Optimization of Spoke and V-type Permanent Magnet Machines by Combined Design of Experiments and Differential Evolution Algorithms, Peng Zhang, Dan M. Ionel, and Nabeel Demerdash
Calculation of Magnet Losses in Concentrated-Winding Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machines Using a Computationally Efficient Finite-Element Method, Peng Zhang, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Jiangbiao He, Dan M. Ionel, and Nabeel Demerdash
Design Optimization of Spoke-type Ferrite Magnet Machines by Combined Design of Experiments and Differential Evolution Algorithms, Peng Zhang, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Dan M. Ionel, and Nabeel Demerdash
Multi-objective Tradeoffs in the Design Optimization of a Brushless Permanent Magnet Machine with Fractional-slot Concentrated Windings, Peng Zhang, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Muyang Li, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, Steven J. Stretz, and Alan W. Yeadon
Exploiting Contextual Information for Prosodic Event Detection Using Auto-Context, Junhong Zhao, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Hua Yang, Michael T. Johnson, Jia Liu, and Shanhong Xia
Submissions from 2012
Fault-Tolerant Operation of Delta-Connected Scalar- and Vector-Controlled AC Motor Drives, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed and Nabeel Demerdash
Detection of Anti-IgG Using Cantilever-type Resonant Microstructures Vibrating in In-plane Flexural Modes, L. A. Beardslee, S. Aravamudhan, C. Carron, P. Joseph, O. Brand, Stephen M. Heinrich, and Fabien Josse
Geometrical Considerations for the Design of Liquid-phase Biochemical Sensors Using a Cantilever's Fundamental In-plane Mode, L. A. Beardslee, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, I. Dufour, and O. Brand
Thermally Actuated Silicon Tuning Fork Resonators for Sensing Applications in Air, L. A. Beardslee, Jacques T. Lehmann, C. Carron, J. J. Su, Fabien Josse, I. Dufour, and O. Brand
Forecasting Natural Gas Demand: The Role of Physical and Economic Factors, Ronald H. Brown, David E. Clark, George Corliss, Farrokh Nourzad, Thomas F. Quinn, and Catherine Twetten
The GasDay Project at Marquette University: A Learning Laboratory in a Functioning Business, Ronald H. Brown, Thomas F. Quinn, George Corliss, Jay R. Goldberg, and Mark L. Nagurka
BareMichael: A minimalistic Bare-metal Framework for the Intel SCC, Dennis Brylow and Michael Ziwisky
Resonant Characteristics of Rectangular Microcantilevers Vibrating Torsionally in Viscous Liquid Media, Tao Cai, Fabien Josse, Isabelle Dufour, Stephen M. Heinrich, Nicholas J. Nigro, and Oliver Brand
A Very Robust AlGaN/GaN HEMT Technology to High Forward Gate Bias and Current, Bradley D. Christiansen, Eric R. Heller, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Ramakrishna Vetury, and Jeffrey B. Shealy
Characteristics of Laterally Vibrating Resonant Microcantilevers in Viscous Liquid Media, Russell Cox, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, Oliver Brand, and Isabelle Dufour
Characterizing Metal Insulator Transition (MIT) Materials for Use as Micro-Switch Elements, Brent L. Danner and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.