Research and Teaching Information: FALL 2008 SEMESTER
Dr. Johnson Asumadu
Education
- Ph.D. Power Electronics, Control, and Embedded Systems, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, 1987
- MEE Power Syetems, Electric Drives, and Transformers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 1983
- M.Sc. Control Engineering, Digital Electronics, and DSP, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 1978
- B.Sc. (with Honors) Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Ghana, 1975
Some Honors and Awards
- U.S. Air Force Fellowships, WPAFB, 2003 and 2005, United States
- Fulbright Scholar, 1982 - 1987, United States
- Commonwealth Scholar, 1976 - 1978, UK (England)
Patents Held, Disclosures, And Appeals
- U.S. Patent Disclosure Case No. 5714.P0043US, June 2007
- U.S. Patent Application No. 09/686,626, December 2003, April & August 2004, April & August 2005.
- U.S. Patent No. 5,822,216, issued, October 1998
Research Interests
- Power Electronics, Electric Drives, Power Systems, Embedded Systems, DSP, Control (including Fuzzy Logic)
Sample Publications [Additional
Publication list]
- J. A. Asumadu and J. B. Scofield, “Characteristics of High-Speed Silicon Carbide (Sic) Power Transistors,” Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2007 IEEE, Warsaw, Poland, 1 – 3 May 2007, pp. 1 – 6.
- J. A. Asumadu and B. Oni, “Power Converter-Based Tracking System for Wind-Energy Power Application,” 2006 Electrical Manufacturing Technical Conference, September 18 – 20, 2006, Indianapolis, IN USA, pp. 19.
- J. A. Asumadu, R. Tanner, J. Fitzmaurice, M. Kelly, H. Ogunleye, J. Belter, and S. C. Koh, “A Web-based Electrical and Electronic Remote Wiring and Measurement Laboratory (RwmLAB) Instrument”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 38 – 44.
