Yongpeng — Electrical Engineer

Design various solutions for mechatronic system control, from dynamic system modeling, actuator driving, controller design, sensor integration, calibration.

Electrical / Electronics circuit analysis and design. Instrumentation utilization, scientific calculation, sensor data acquisition and calibraiton. Embedded system development.

Attended training workshop for FPGA and its programming. Instruct graduate student to utilize NI cRIO to program control algorithm for helicopter control.

PLC system programming and maintenance, production quality control.

Investigate dynamic system modeling, develop control algorithm, programming, controller implementation, stability analysis.

Instruct students on senior design to utilize PLC for various logic setting, such as traffic lighting, servo motor control, etc.

Grant proposal initiation, literature research, budge allocation, personnel recruiting and supervision, progress documentation, publication writing and presentation, reporting. Multiple grants funded from Army, National Science Foundation, Department of Education, with accumulated amount of over 1 million dollars.

Teach robotics classes for undergraduate students. Introduction on actuators and drives, sensors, controller and programming. Kinematics, motion, energy, force and torque, case study.

Proficient programming skills with MATLAB, C/C++, Python, PLC. Graphical simulation tools utilization including Simulink, PSPICE, LabVIEW, Multisim, PowerWorld, etc.

Graduate student supervising, undergraduate project instruction.

Skillful grant proposal writer. Extensive peer reviewed publications including 16 journal papers and 24 conference papers.

Control system design for various dynamic systems including helicopter, piezoceramic actuator, rotary inverted pendulum, etc.

Solid theretical background on power conversion circuits with switching components of IGBT and Power MOSFET. Various topologies of AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC analysis and calculation. Software based phase lock loop control, robust stability analysis.

Solid background of electric machines including DC, synchronous, induction, and switching reluctant motors, as well as synchronous generators. Vector control experience for synchronous motor and induction motor.

Extensive programming skills with MATLAB, C, Python, and PLC. Proficient embedded controller programming with C.

Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses of electric machinery, power electronics, power system, circuit and electronics. Research on power electronics circuit modeling and control. Graduate student advising, external funding application.

Teaching and Research in Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology. Teach courses of robotics, control, advanced control theory, advanced motor drive, digital signal processing, etc. Supervise graduate student, publication writing and presentation. External funding application. Professional conference session chair, faculty workshop organizer.

DSP controller development for motor drive.

Software development for flood monitoring system, to collect data from distributed remote sites, alarm setup, report generation.

Ship telecom and navigation system repairing and maitenance. Offshore rig ship electrical system repairing, upgrading, and maitenenace.