SPRING 2013: Research and Teaching Information
Dr. Johnson Asumadu
CONTACT: B-0224 Parkview Campus, ECE Dept, WMU, USA. TEL: +1 (269) 276-3147 FAX: +1 (269) 276-3151 EMAIL: johnson.asumadu@wmich.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, 1987 Specialization: Power Electronics, Control, and Embedded Systems
MEE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 1983 Specialization: Power Systems, Electric Drives, Control, and Embedded Systems
M.Sc., Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 1978 Specialization: Control Engineering, Digital Electronics, and DSP
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Ghana, 1975With Honors
Research Interests
Power Electronics, Electric Drives, Power Systems, Embedded Systems, DSP, Control (including Fuzzy Logic)
Patents Held, Disclosures, And Appeals
U.S. Patent No. RE43,656 E, issued, September 2012
U.S. Patent No. RE41,543, issued, August 2010
U.S. Patent No. 5,822,216, issued, October 1998
U.S. Patent Appeal No. 12/765,205, April 2010
U.S. Patent Disclosure Case No. 5714.P0043US, June 2007
Sample Publications [Additional Selected Publications]
Almaita, E. and Asumadu, J., “Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNN) and p-q Power Theory based
Harmonic Identification in Converter,” Journal of Power Electronics, Vol. 11, November, 2011, pp. 922 - 930.
G. Halasa and J. A. Asumadu, Wind-Solar Hybrid Electrical Power Production To Support National Grid: Case
Study - Jordan , The International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC) 2009, May 17 - 21
2009, Wuhan, China, pp. 19.
