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Fall 2011 COURSE offerings: EE 304 - Computer Aided
Measurements and Controls and EE 206- Circuit Analysis
Academic portfolio: [teaching,
research publications, grants and service]
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Prof. Prakash Ranganathan
Assistant Professor / Senior IEEE Member
EE Advisor, Distance Engineering Degree Program(DEDP)
Office: Upson II Room 160-L
Phone: 701-777-4431 (work)
email: PrakashRanganathan@mail.und.nodak.edu
Research Interests: Smart Grid control technologies, Operational
Research, Simulation and Optimal Models, Computational models, Agent
based learning, Software Engineering, Sequency domain Analysis (Power
quality), Wireless Sensor networks
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Office Hours
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Teaching Tags / Pedagogies Interests: STEM
Education, Blooms Taxonomy, Project Based Learning (PBL), Engineering
Education, Distance Engineering Education and Delivery models
Walk in (or) by Appointment
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Teaching Experience
Courses Taught à
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offerings)
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EE 304,
Computer Aided Measurements and Controls (3) (LabVIEW/C++/MATLAB based
course)
EE 206
Electric Circuits (4), EE 313:Linear Electric Circuits, EE 201
Digital Logic design (2), ENGR 269, Data Structures (2)
EE 101
Introduction to Electrical Engineering (Team teach), Digital
Electronics, Introduction to Engineering (undecided students).
ENGR
202 Scientific Computing, a MATLAB/SIMULINK approach (5)
Software
Engineering Principles (2).ENGR 101 Introduction to Engineering (5)
Labs
Developed: Circuit Analysis I (EE 306), Circuit Analysis II(EE 307),
Junior Laboratory I (EE 308) and II (EE 309), EE 202- Digital Logic
Lab.
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Advisees
Education
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Advising over 100 undergraduate
students (campus and distance students combined)
Ph.D in Computer Science, North Dakota State University: In Pursuit
M.S in Electrical Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo,
2003-2004.
B.E (Honors) in Electronics and Communication Engineering, University
of Madras, India, 1998- 2002.
Diploma (Distinction) in Electronics and Communication Engineering,
St. Michaels Polytechnic, India, 1996-1999.
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Academic Experience
Membership Societies
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EE Faculty/DEDP: University of
North Dakota, Grand Forks, Aug 2007 to Present
Engineering Faculty/Director of Pre-Engineering program and STEM
initiatives, Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND,
2005-2007.
Sunday Academy Instructor/Lesson Plan developer, a Joint Statewide ND
EpScoR Outreach Initiative (NDSU-UND) for Tribal College Students and
High Schoolers 2005- Present.
Graduate Research Assistant (GRA)/Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA),
NDSU, Fargo.
IEEE (Senior Member), ASEE (Member)
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Journal
Publications
Conference
Proceedings
Engineering Education
Proceedings
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Prakash Ranganathan, K.
Nygard, Smart Grid Data Analytics for decision support, IEEE Annual
Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC 2011), Oct 3-5 2011,
Winnipeg, Canada (accepted).
Prakash Ranganathan, Saleh
Faruque et.al, A powerline communication (PLC) model for future
Microgrid architecture, International Conference on Smart Grid
Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, July 29-30 2011.
Kendall
E. Nygard, Steve Bou Ghosn, Davin Loegering, Ryan McCulloch, Prakash Ranganathan et.al,
Implementing a Flexible Simulation of a Self-Healing Smart Grid 2011
International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization
Methods, July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA (to appear)
Prakash Ranganathan,
K. Nygard, UML design patterns in Smart Grid, 26th International
Conference on Computers and their applications (CATA 2011), New
Orleans, Lousiana, March 23-25 2011 (to appear).
Prakash Ranganathan and Rajesh G.
Kavasseri "A method for Flicker Severity Evaluation using the
Hadamard Transform," Proc. Frontiers of Power - International
Conference Stillwater, Oklahoma, September 2003
Prakash Ranganathan,
Technical Report on Orthogonal Transforms, North Dakota State
University, 2004.
Prakash Ranganathan, "A
Blooms Online Assessment Test (BOAT) to assess Student learning outcome
in a Distance Engineering Education course" 2nd International
Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology (IEEE:ICCET 2010),
16-18 April 2010, China.
Prakash Ranganathan, K.
Nygard “Jing based Teaching in Virtual engineering
laboratories”, International Conference on Engineering
Education (ICEE 2010)- July 18-22 2010, Gliwice, Poland.
Prakash Ranganathan,
K.Nygard, Richard Schultz “ How to design an engineering course
syllabus to satisfy ABET program outcomes and course objectives
faculty teach?: An assessment Instrument example, International
Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE 2010)- July 18-22 2010,
Gliwice, Poland.
Prakash Ranganathan,
“Effective e-learing tricks and strategies in Online and Hybrid
courses”, 7th European Conference on e-learning, Nov 6-8 2008, Agia Napa,
Cyprus
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National and Regional Grants
Research/Invited/Teaching
Presentations
Service to Institution
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Funded
proposals:
2006, NSF based Course, Curriculum
and Laboratory Improvement Program (CCLI): Phase 1(Exploratory
Program)-Transition from Continum-based Mechanics to Multiscale
Mechanics in Engineering Education,Ghodrat Karami (PI) ,Prakash
Ranganathan(Co-PI), Robert Pieri(Co-PI), Collaborative Proposal
with North Dakota State University, Funded Amount: $125,000.
2005, Department of Defense (DoD) Army Grant, Scott Hanson, Prakash
Ranganathan (Co-PI), “Equipmental grant- Electronics
Laboratory”, Funded amount:$66,000.
2009-2010, “Improving the University of North Dakota Electrical
& Systems Engineering Laboratory Infrastructure in Embedded
Systems,Telecommunications, and Printed Circuit Board Design”,
Naima Kaabouch (PI), Prakash Ranganathan (Co-PI), Sima
(Co-PI), Reza (Co-PI), Art Miles (Co-PI) et.al, Rockwell Collins
Charitable Corporation University Allocations, Funded Amount:$30,000
2005, NASA –NDSGC, “Voice and telecommunication tracking
system for MARS space Suit project”, Prakash
Ranganathan(PI), Funded Amount: $1800.
2005- Pre Engineering Curriculum
developmental, Prakash Ranganathan(PI), NSF-TCUP,
Funded Amount: $5000.
Unfunded proposals:
2006, National Science Foundation, NUE: Development of Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology Education in North Dakota Julia Zhao, Prakash
Ranganathan(Co-PI) ,et.al $199,963(Not funded).
2010, A Jing based screenshot teaching proposal, Office of
Instructional development, University of North Dakota, $4000.00
(unfunded
2010, Challenges and Research directions
in Smart Grid, Research group meeting, Dept. of Computer Science,
North Dakota State University, Fargo.
2009,
‘Secure Time Synchronization problem in WSN’s, North
Dakota State University, Fargo.[ppt]
2008
ASEE Conference, Invited presentation on “LEGO Engineering in
Undergraduate education”, Informal
Session, Platteville, Wisconsin.
March
3 2010, “Online Grading using
PDF annotator, Video casting using Jing and assessment Process in
Distance Education”, A Education Workshop and exhibit Organized
by Centre for Learning and Instructional Technology (CILT),
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND .
Oct 19-20 2006, ‘Inquiry based Engineering
and Math’, Best Teaching
Practices in STEM
(Science, Technology Mathematics and Engineering) Education, Turtle Mountain
Community College, Belcourt, ND.
Reviewer for Annual ASEE conferences, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless communications, IEEE EDUCON, IEEE Frontiers in Engineering
Education, ICEE 2010,IEEE-ISPLC 2009, 2010, IEEE ICDM 2010, IEEE
ICCSIT 2011. IMCIC 2010.
Technical Program
Committee Member, FUTURE COMPUTING 2011, Rome, Italy [Link]
Academic Young Member Representative for the Society for American
Military Engineers (SAME) 2008- Present
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Sustainable Green Computing:
Practices, Methodologies and Technologies book, IGI Global
Publishers.
Fundamental of Engineering (FE) Instructor on Circuits Section,
University of North Dakota.
Report published on my STEM initiatives in “Weaving
Native Knowledge into STEM Teaching and Learning at Tribal Colleges
and Universities”, a book by Systemic Research Inc, in 2008.
Technical Judge for FIRST LEGO LEAGUE
competition, UND, Years – 2008, 2009, 2010.
Distance Engineering Degree Program (EE) Advisor, UND, Grand Forks,
May 2007 – present.
Link Engineering Host, UND, 2010.
ND –EpScoR NATURE Consultant, Tribal College Outreach
Initiatives, 2007, 2008, 2009,2010.
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Honors/Awards
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Nominated for ASEE Outstanding Educator Award (Nominated) by
Department Chair,2010.
Summer 2005 Faculty Fellowship from North Dakota Space Grant Consortium
to develop Satellite communication course at TMCC, NASA-NDSGC.
State Rank Holder (1st), Electronics and Communication
Engineering, Diploma in ECE, May ‘99.
Received Indian Science foundation Scholarship and Sundaram Finance scholarship,
on the basis of academic merit for the academic years 1999-2002.
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Recent student Project advising
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2008-present; Projects: Lego Multi-NXT Robot design(EE
101), PCB Board design using Ultiboard (EE 308)
2007 – Microchip 32F processor Series DSP module (EE 521)
DEDP advisement
- revised, ( 2010 )
SA SAp
Summer 2011 Labs
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