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EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
High Voltage, Pulsed Power Systems, Expert ConsultantExpertise in high voltage, electro-optics, electrical breakdown phenomena in gases, liquids, solids, and vacuum, pulsed power systems and devices, lasers, fast electrical and optical diagnostics, high power switches and dielectric materials.
Has conducted numerous studies in areas including high current pulsed power sources, high voltage insulation, insulation breakdown and failure, high voltage and high current measurements.
Understanding and experience in a broad array of engineering and science areas including electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, medical applications of engineering, materials science, optics, high voltage for power generation and transmission, energy sources.
This consultant offers specific expertise in education relative to engineering curriculum, student recruitment and retention, minority and women student recruitment and retention, engineering faculty recruitment and retention, education program fundraising and alumni relations, federal and state funded research programs, role of universities in economic development.
This consultant's experience includes Russian technology, working with National Laboratories (Sandia, Los Alamos) and Federal Laboratories (Air Force, Navy), extensive industrial contact network with aerospace, construction, telecommunications, computing.
This consultant is familiar with federal funding sources (National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Energy)
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Electronics, Communications, Computer, Defense, Government, Aerospace, Construction, Power, Energy, Medical
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.
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Dean of Engineering and Ketcham Professor of Engineering, major university
Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Chairman and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
Director, Power Conditioning Laboratory, University of Texas at Arlington
Tamper Chair Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering, University of South Carolina
Graduate Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Carolina
Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of South Carolina
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, University of South Carolina
Senior Technical Staff Membe, Laser Laboratory of Northrop Research and Technology Center, Los Angeles, CA
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Head experimentalist for a large electron beam sustained, carbon monoxide, Laser system. Principal investigator for a supersonic gas flow, quasi cw, carbon monoxide laser.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Research Assistant, Electro-Optics and Plasma Laboratories, Texas Tech University
Conducted research in the generation of high electric and magnetic fields, electro-optical measurements, and plasma physics of theta pinch and other plasma generation and heating devices.
Teaching: Courses taught include undergraduate courses in circuit theory, electronics, digital logic, physical electronics, semi-conductor devices, electromagnetics, and engineering mathematics and graduate courses in electromagnetics, optics, high voltage generation, and electrical diagnostics.
Has served as consultant to:
BDM Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
Technology Commercialization, Inc., Albuquerque, NM
Tel Tech, Minneapolis, MN
Mission Research Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Tetra Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
University of Texas, Arlington, TX
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
Enercap Corporation, Huntington Beach, CA
Battelle
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Physical Sciences Laboratory, Las Cruces, NM
Space Vector Corporation
Science Applications, Inc.
AVX Corporations, Myrtle Beach, SC
Owen Electrical Steel Corporation, Columbia, SC
Exxon Corporate Research Laboratories, Linden, NY
Oak Ridge National Laboratories
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registered Professional Engineer, Missouri
Registered Professional Engineer, Texas
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellow - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
President IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society
Order of the Engineer, Missouri Society of Professional Engineers
Columbia Chamber of Commerce
Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, Chair of the Educational Advisory Committee
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society
National Society of Professional Engineers
American Society of Engineering Education
Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi Honor Societies
Optical Society of America
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
American Defense Preparedness Association
Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce
President New Mexico Academy of Science
Elected by Engineering Students to be an Honorary Knight of St. Patrick
Recognized for leadership, as a founding Board Member, by the United States Industry Coalition, an organization working with DoE to minimize non-proliferation of weapons from the Former Soviet Union.
Elected to the Civil Engineering Academy of Distinguished Engineers (as the only non-civil engineering alumni member).
Elected Honorary Doctor, Institute for Electrophysics, Russia, for outstanding achievements in the area of electric discharges in vacuum and high power pulsed technology. Also recognized for efforts aimed at promoting scientific cooperation with the Russian Academy of Science.
Selected for the Texas Tech Electrical Engineering Academy, for outstanding graduates.
Appointed to Tamper Chair Professorship, University of South Carolina.
Selected by the Council of International Exchange of Scholars for the India/American Fellowship Program
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member of MU/NSF ADVANCE Council to recruit and retain women faculty in math, science, and engineering
Elected Member, Board of Directors, United States Industry Coalition (USIC), a DOE sponsored organization to develop technical projects with the Former Soviet Union
Member, St. Louis Coalition for Information and Communications Technology
Invited delegate to the Governor’s Summit on Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, and Science
Member, American Society Engineering Education Council of Deans
Member, Blue Ribbon Committee, Missouri Transportation Institute
Member, Missouri Life Sciences Business Coalition
Board of Advisors, Labor and Education Market Analysis Program, St. Louis, MO
Executive Committee, Aerospace Research Education Center, St. Louis, MO
Member, Board of Directors, Missouri Innovation Center, Columbia, Missouri
Member, Board of Visitors for the Center for Electro-mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
Past President, IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society
Past Vice President, IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society
Appointed Member, National Society of Professional Engineers’ Education Advisory Group
Board Member, Vice Chairman, Technology Commercialization International, Albuquerque, NM
Board Member, Tetra Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
Past President, New Mexico Academy of Science
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Insulation
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Insulation, Special Issue on Insulation and Breakdown in Vacuum
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Special Issue on Vacuum Discharge Plasmas
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Special Issue on Plasma Switches, December
NASA Space Commercialization Center Review Committee
Chairman of Executive Committee, Maui High Performance Computing Center
Executive Board Member, DoE Waste Management Education Research Consortium (WERC). WERC is a consortium of New Mexico Universities created to develop waste management research and education programs. The WERC program was funded by DOE at a level of approximately $6M annually.
Member, Board of Directors, Technology Development Corporation, University of New Mexico
Member, Executive Committee, University of New Mexico and National Laboratory, Advanced Materials Laboratory
Executive Board Member, Alliance for Transportation Research of New Mexico
Member, Administrative Committee, IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society
PUBLICATIONS
Holder of four patents related to electrical engineering. Author of numerous publications on topics related to electromagnetics, high voltage and high current pulsed power, discharges and electrical insulation in vacuum, dielectric materials, lasers, and more.
Numerous presentations on topics related to pulsed power, high voltage, insulation breakdown and failure, dielectric materials, biofuels, nuclear materials management, and more.
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