January 2, 2007

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Thursday, January 4, 10 am-noon, KEC 3057. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Xueqiang Ding. Major Professors: Un-Ku Moon, Huaping Liu; Committee: Zhongfeng Wang. "Design and Analysis of a 5GHz 0.18um CMOS LC-VCO and Frequency synthesizer For IEEE 802.11a WLANs." Details.

Thursday, January 4, 1-3 pm, KEC 3114. PhD FINAL ORAL EXAM - Ting Wu. Major Professors: Un-Ku Moon, Kartikeya Mayaram; Committee: Gabor Temes, Zhongfeng Wang, Pavan Hanumolu; GCR: William Warnes. "Design Techniques for PVT Tolerant Phase-Locked Loops." Details.

Monday, January 8, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Ean Amon. Major Professor: Annette von Jouanne; Committee: Ted Brekken, Jimmy Eggerton; GCR: Joseph Zaworski. "Hybrid Electric Vehicle Active Rectifier Performance Analysis." Details.

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JOBS
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Electro Standards Laboratories, Cranston, RI, is involved in a variety of leading-edge projects including sensorless motor controls, DSP-based embedded motor and power electronics systems, multilevel inverters, and embedded instrumentation. Areas of application include motor and power electronics simulations, aircraft launch systems, hybrid electric vehicles, and embedded smart sensors. Design and development of hardware and real-time controls for linear induction motor and associated power electronics. Includes embedded DSP controls, prototyping and testing, dynamic modeling and simulations. Details.

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