GRADUATE STUDENTS

This page shows former and current graduate students who have worked with Ian Dobson.

All degrees are in Electrical and Computer Engineering unless noted.

Liming Lu, MS 1991
Immediate change in stability and voltage collapse when power system limits are encountered
(figures not included)
Engineer, Detroit-Edison utility

Andre Mazzoleni PhD in Engineering Mechanics 1992
Comparative study of stability of flexible satellites with and without guy-wire constraints
(joint supervision with Schlack, Engineering Mechanics)
Associate Professor at North Carolina State University in  Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.

Sasan Jalali PhD 1993
Harmonics and instabilities in thyristor based switching circuits
(joint supervision with R.H. Lasseter, ECE)
employed at American Transmission Company, WI

Gary Gray PhD in Engineering Mechanics, 1993
Chaos in the attitude dynamics of an internally damped satellite due to nonautonomous perturbations
(joint supervision with D. Kammer, Engineering Mechanics)
Associate Professor at Penn State in Engineering Science and Mechanics.

Rajesh Rajaraman, PhD 1996
Dynamics, damping and resonance in switching circuits
Vice president at L.R. Christensen Associates, Madison WI

Scott Greene, MS 1993
Constraint at a saddle node bifurcation
Scott Greene, PhD 1998
Margin and sensitivity methods for power system security
employed at Price Waterhouse Coopers

Glen Luckjiff, PhD 2003
Sigma delta modulators with hexagonal quantization
employed at Citadel Investment Group, Chicago IL

John Wohlbier, MS 2000
Modeling and analysis of a traveling wave tube under multitone excitation
(joint supervision with J.H. Booske, ECE)
John Wohlbier, PhD 2003
Nonlinear distortion and suppression in traveling wave tubes: insights and methods
(joint supervision with J.H. Booske, ECE)
Technical Staff, Los Alamos National Lab, NM

Kevin Wierzbicki, MS 2006
Statistical estimation of cascading blackout size and propagation with branching processes
employed at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington DC

Janghoon Kim, MS 2008
Properties of the branching model and the cascading model of the failure propagation of the power network
continuing for PhD

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