MARIO EDGARDO MAGAÑA
Associate Professor

Education
 

1979

B.S., Electrical Engineering
Iowa State University

1980

M.S., Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

1987

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Purdue University

Professional Experience
 
Academic
1989 - present


Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Sept. 1999 - March 2000

Invited Researcher
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Eurodrive/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Summer of 1992
Invited Researcher and Lecturer
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Calendar year of 1997
Invited Researcher
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Non-academic
June 2000 - Aug. 2000


Tektronix, Inc., Wireless Communications Group, Beaverton, OR
June 1980 - Aug. 1986

Harris Corp. Communications Systems Division, Melbourne, FL.
Boeing, Flight Control Research Unit, Seattle, WA

Selected Publications

Rabinowitz, D and Magaña, M. E., "Decision Feedback for IS-95 Uplink Frame Decoding," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 527-532, 1999.

Rabinowitz, D. and Magaña, M. E., "A Decision Feedback Reverse Link Receiver Implementation for IS-95 CDMA Communications," International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 208-217, November 1999

Magaña, M. E. and Myers, T. F., "A Systolic Array Implementation of the One-Shot Decorrelating Detector Used for CDMA Communications," International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 219-229, November 1999.

Volz, P. U., Magaña, M. E., and Speidel, J., "Performance Improvement of IS-95 CDMA Uplink Using Decision Feedback and Sub-Optimal Viterbi Decoding," International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 193-209, 2001.

Volz, P. U. and Magaña, M. E., "A New Block Interleaver and Non-Iterative Decision Feedback Decoding Enhance Performance of IS-95 CDMA Uplink," accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J., "Active Nonlinear Robust Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges in the Presence of Strong Vertical Ground Motion due to Earthquakes," Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Structural Control, Japan, pp. 1947-1955, July 1998, presenter.

Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J. J., "Fuzzy Logic Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges in the Presence of Seismic Excitation," Proceedings of the SEM/IMAC-XVII conference, Orlando, Florida, pp. 738-744, February 1999, presenter.

Monroy, C., Rodellar, J., and Magaña, M. E., "A Decentralized Strategy for Active Vibration Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges," Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Problems in Vibration Theory and Application, Xian, China, June 19-22, 2000.

Monroy, C., Rodellar, J., and Magaña, M. E., "Performance Analysis of a Robust Local Active Control Scheme of Cable-Stayed Bridges," Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Structural Control, Paris, July 3-6, 2000.

Volz, P. U. and Magaña, M. E., "Performance Improvement of IS-95 Through Non-iterative Decision Feedback Decoding and a Modified Interleaver," accepted for publication and presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing, Singapore, October 2001.

Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J., "Active Control of Dynamic Surfaces," a monograph published by the Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.

Professional Activities and Service

IEEE Faculty Advisor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University, 1991-1992.
IEEE Control Systems Society, Member since 1978.
IEEE Communications Society, Member since 1987.
Primary Teaching Responsibilities
ECE 461/462/463, ENGR 203
   
   
   

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5501
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