Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering and Mines

 

 

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Spring 2010 Offerings: EE 309, EE 101 

 

                        

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Prakash Ranganathan
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Distance Engineering Degree Program(DEDP)
Office: Upson II Room 160-L
Phone: 701-777-4431 (Work)
email: PrakashRanganathan@mail.und.nodak.edu

Research Interests: Engineering Education, Wireless Sensor networks, Distance learning

Office Hours

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Teaching Experience

 Courses Taught à
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EE 304, Computer Aided Measurements and Controls (3)

EE 206 Electric Circuits (4), EE 201 Digital Logic design (VLSI/Verilog)(2), ENGR 269, Data Structures (2)

EE 101 Introduction to Electrical Engineering (2 – Team teach)

ENGR 202  Scientific Computing, a MATLAB/SIMULINK approach (5)

CSCI 203 Shell Scripting (2), Software Engineering Principles (2)

CSCI 278 Advance Web design and Management (2)

ENGR 101 Introduction to Engineering (5), Intro to Artificial Intelligence (1)

 

Education

 

 


Ph.D in Computer Science, North Dakota State University – In Pursuit
M.S in Electrical Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo.
B.E (Honors) in E.C.E, University of Madras, India
Diploma (Distinction) in E.C.E, St. Michaels Polytechnic, Chennai, India

 

Work Experience

EE Faculty/DEDP – University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, Aug 2007 – Present
Engineering Faculty/Director of STEM Research, Turtle Mountain Community College, 2005 - 2007
Graduate Research Assistant(GRA)/GTA, NDSU, Fargo, 2003-2004

Research Interests

Engineering Education, Circuits, Wireless Sensor Networks, Orthogonal Transforms, Power Systems (Sequency domain Analysis)

National/ Regional/ Mini Grants Awarded

 

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 ,Prakash Ranganathan(Co-PI),Robert Pieri, Collaborative Proposal with North Dakota State University, Funded Amount: $125,000.

 2005, Department of Defense (DoD) Army Grant, Scott Hanson, Prakash Ranganathan,

Equipmental grant- Electronics Laboratory”, Funded amount:$66,000.

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, NSF-TCUP, Funded Amount: $5000.

 

Presentations

 

Inquiry based Engineering and Math’, Best Teaching Practices in STEM  (Science, Technology Mathematics and Engineering) Education, Oct 19-20, 2006, Ranganathan, Prakash Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND.

2008 ASEE Conference, Invited presentation on LEGO Engineering in Undergraduate education, Informal Session.

 

Honors & Awards

 

 

Summer 2005 Faculty Fellowship from North Dakota Space Grant Consortium to develop Satellite communication course at TMCC, NASA-NDSGC. [CLICK here and see page 3]

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.

 

 

 

Conference Publications

 

 

 

Prakash Ranganathan, Rajesh Kavasseri, “ Flickermeter Design: An improved computational method to measure short term flicker severityindex (Pst)”, IEEE (PES) ASIA Pacific Power and Energy Conference (APPEECC 2010), Chengdu, China, March 28-31 2010 (accepted)

 

Prakash Ranganathan, Saleh Faruque, Richard Schultz, “A Method to measure battery Impedance using operational amplifier circuit in electrical engineering lab curriculum”, ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 8-10 2009.

Prakash Ranganathan, Richard Schultz, “Use of DAQ boards in conjunction with NXT for Measurement and Instrumentation application”, 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 14 -17 2009, Austin, Texas.

 

Prakash Ranganathan, Richard Schultz, Mojdeh Mardani, “Use of Lego Mindstorms in Engineering Education” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference October 16-18 2008, Platteville, Wisconsin.

 

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.

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, Masters Degree thesis, North Dakota State University, 2004

 

 

 

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Certifications

International Multi-Conference on Complexity, informatics, and Cybernetics (IMCIC 2010).
Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference, IEEE- FIE 2009, Oct 18-21 2009, San Antonio, Texas.
European Conferences on e-learning, ECEL’08 and ECEL’09 Conferences.
Program Committee Member, Association for the advancement of Computing in Education Conference, Oct 26-30 2009, Vancouver, Canada [click].


Mathworks Inc., Certified Training Engineer on Signal/ImageProcessing, Simulink Modeling, Statistics
ADSP 219X series DSP processor Certification, Analog Devices, India.
Macromedia Certified Web Management/Design Specialist.
Microsoft Certified Advanced Excel Dev group Specialist

 

Memberships

 

IEEE (Member), ASEE (Member) SMTA(Sr. Member)

 

Recent Student Projects Advising

 

Outreach Videos/with Tribal Colleges

2008 Projects: Lego Multi-NXT Robot design(EE 101), PCB Board design using Ultiboard (EE 308)
2007 – Microchip 32F processor Series DSP module (EE 521)

 

1 ,  2  SA (2009)   Downloads { Screenwatch    r10.5 }
To download the Video files – NATURE_1  NATURE_2

Served as Technical Judge, First LEGO League (FLL) Tournament, 2007, 2008, 2009.

Other Useful Links:
DEDP Summer 2009 Labs
UND Welcomes new faculty
www.ieee.org
www.asee.org

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