Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty and Staff
FULL TIME FACULTY
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Richard R. Johnston, Ph.D., P.E. Dr. Johnston received the BSEE (Magna cum Laude), the MSEE, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University. Dr. Johnston is Director of the Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His interests include power systems, power electronics, and numerical methods. |
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Lisa M. Anneberg, Ph.D., P.E. Dr. Anneberg received the BS in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, the MS in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University, and the PhD in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University. She has previous industrial experience at General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, and US Army TACOM. She is a SME-certified Enterprise Integrator, a licensed professional engineer in Michigan, and a Certified Quality Technician. Dr. Anneberg presently chairs the Engineering Faculty Senate and serves on the University-wide Faculty Senate. She is active in the Society for Women Engineers, Michigan Society for Professional Engineers, and the American Society for Engineering Education. She is also a senior member of the IEEE and a section chair of the Trident Section of the IEEE-Southeast Michigan. She is presently working on funded educational projects at Lawrence Tech through AT&T, the Jerome Bettis Foundation, the National Football League, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Daimler Chrysler Foundation. |
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Rakan Chabaan, Ph.D. Dr. Chabaan has published several journal and conference papers. He has also 9 US patents, several European patents, and two patents to be allowed. |
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Michael J. Cloud, Ph.D. Dr. Cloud received the PhD in electrical engineering from Michigan State University in 1987. He then joined LTU, and has been an Associate Professor since 1992. Dr. Cloud received a Sears Foundation award for teaching excellence in 1991. He has coauthored several books, including Inequalities with Applications to Engineering (Springer-Verlag, 1998), Electromagnetics (CRC Press, 2001), and Tensor Analysis (World Scientific, 2003). Dr. Cloud serves as CQI Coordinator for the ECE Department. He is also a senior member of the IEEE. |
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H. Robert Farrah, Ph.D., P.E. Dr. Farrah holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, which was granted by Wayne State University. He also earned MSEE and MBA degrees from WSU, and a BSEE degree from MIT. Prior to joining the faculty at LTU, Dr. Farrah was employed by the Bendix Corporation. During his tenure at Bendix he worked on various electronics, instrumentation, and computer projects. From 1990 to 2001, Dr. Farrah was the Chairperson of the Department of Electrical Engineering at LTU. Currently Dr. Farrah is serving on the Steering Committee of the Engineering Faculty Council, and is the Chairperson of the Tenure and Promotion committee. |
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Ronald C. Foster |
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William B. Kolasa, Ph.D. Dr. Kolasa earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Detroit, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Detroit and a Ph.D. in Experimental Solid State Physics from the Universiy of Windsor. Previously, Dr. Kolasa worked at the Vehicle Systems Laboratory of General Dynamics Land Systems Division as Group Leader in Troy, Michigan, as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Physics Department at the University of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, as Senior Engineer in the Sciences Department at Bendix Engineering and Development Center, and as Lead Analyst at Bendix Field Engineering Corporation at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Kolasa is currently serving as the student branch counselor for IEEE, and as the Co-op advisor of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. |
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Mr. Shih received the MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Taipei Institute of Technology. |
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Mazin Sliety, PhD. PE. Dr. Sliety received a PhD in Systems Engineering from Oakland University and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2007 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining Lawrence Tech University, Dr. Sliety had 11 years’ experience in research, teaching, and industry. |
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Anca I. Stefan, Ph.D. Dr. Stefan earned a Diploma and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from The Ohio State University. |
ADJUNCT FACULTY
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Mehrdad Abtahi received the BS in Telecommunication Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, the MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Detroit Mercy, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University. Dr Abtahi has over 16 years engineering and product development experience. He presently holds a position at TRW Automotive. He also worked at Ford Motor Company, Visteon, and Yazaki. His main interest areas are ALU design, digital communication, embedded systems, VLSI, VHDL, CAE, CAD, CAM, and PDM. |
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Joseph R. Asik, Ph.D. Dr. Asik is an Adjunct Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments. He received his BS in Physics with honors from Case Institute of Technology in 1959 and his PhD in Magnetic Resonance Physics from the University of Illinois in 1966. Prior to joining Lawrence Technological University, Dr. Asik performed research and development at the Ford Motor Co. Research Laboratories in Dearborn, MI, retiring in 2001 after 31 years of service. At Ford he specialized in designing and developing automotive electrical and electronic control systems for engines, transmissions, and low emissions systems. Dr. Asik has authored more than 50 technical publications in physics, electrical engineering, and automotive engineering. He has been awarded 20 U. S. Patents for automotive inventions. He has received several technical achievement awards from Ford Motor Co. and the SAE. |
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Thomas Dragon received the MSEE from the University of Michigan and the BSEE from the University of Detroit. At Unisys Corporation he was an Electronics Development Engineer and later managed a department responsible for developing electronics for high-speed check sorters. He retired in 1996 after 35 years of service. Mr. Dragon mostly teaches Electronics at LTU, but his favorite course is Circuits 1. He is an avid Detroit Pistons fan and golfer. |
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Riyadh Kenaya received the BSEE in 1992, and the MS in Nuclear Electronic Engineering in 1995, both from Baghdad University. He is presently working toward his PhD in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oakland University. In addition to teaching at LTU, Prof Riyadh teaches courses at Oakland University and the ITT Technical Institute. His research interests include adaptive neural networks, fuzzy ART, and Euclidean ART systems. |
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G. Roientan Lahiji G. Roientan Lahiji received the BSEE degree (with highest distinction) from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 1971, and the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (UM) in 1977 and 1981 respectively. He has been a distinguished faculty member in the EE department at IUST since 1971, where he is a full professor, and has also served in different positions as head of the electronics group and department chair. From 1978 to 1981 he was a research and teaching assistant at the UM Electron Physics Lab, where his work concerned the development and application of integrated technology to MEMS IR detector and solid-state sensors. While on sabbatical during 1987-1988 he joined the Electronic Material Center at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, as a research scientist. There he worked extensively on defects in silicon, especially on generation, and gold and platinum decoration of stacking faults. By the PL and DLTS measurements of the density and activation energy of these defects he successfully showed the electrical effects of stacking faults on activation energy and capture cross section of these recombination centers in silicon. In 2001 he joined the UM EECS department as a visiting and adjunct professor. There his research involved wafer-to-wafer micro-packaging. He has also taught several courses in electronic circuits and digital integrated technology at UM since 2001. Dr Lahiji's research and teaching interests are analog and digital integrated circuits, solid state devices, MEMS, sensors, and semiconductor technology. |
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Dr. Yawen Li received her BS and MS from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, and her PhD from MIT, all in materials science and engineering. She went on to complete her postdoctoral training in the Center for Engineering in Medicine affiliated with both the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her main research interests are in materials processing, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for biomedical applications and tissue engineering. |
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Prof Moriconi is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he supervised the maintenance of computer systems for military aircraft. He was an instructor for the Wayne State College of Lifelong Learning at General Motors for approximately fifteen years, teaching courses in electrical and computer technology. In 1987, Prof Moriconi joined the Lawrence Technological University faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. He left the university to accept a position as Chief Engineer at a local automotive supplier and returned as an adjunct faculty member. He is currently the Senior Projects Coordinator. He holds a BEE from University of Detroit and an MSEE from Wayne State University. |
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Bridget Renehan has been teaching various engineering courses as an adjunct instructor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Lawrence Technological University since 1988. She has also served as an engineering advisor. She earned her BSEE ('84) and MSEE ('86) from the University of Michigan. Ms. Renehan has been an engineer in the automotive industry since 1984, working for Ford, Visteon, and currently Autoliv Electronics America. She is married and has 3 children. |
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James Slicker received the BEE degree from the University of Detroit, the MSEE from New York University, and the PhD in systems engineering from Oakland University. He was a Senior Principal Engineer at Eaton Corporation's Innovation Center where, over a period of 25 years, he developed real time digital control systems for vehicle related products and induction motor drive systems. He holds 21 US patents in control systems, power electronics, and digital signal processing. He is currently President of Microstar Technologies LLC, a startup company involved in development of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) devices. His other interests include robust control systems, digital signal processing, and wavelets. |
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Rick received a BSEE (1968) from Lawrence Tech, and completed an MSEE (1971) and post masters studies at Wayne State University. He joined Detroit Edison's Engineering Research Dept in 1968, retiring in 2006 as a Senior Technical Specialist. His activities revolved around the solution of operating problems that involved the dynamics of various fossil and nuclear power plant processes and controls. Control systems, generator stability, furnace air/gas dynamics, turbine speed governors, electrical switching surges, and failure analysis were addressed by various combinations of field or laboratory testing and computer simulation. Rick was certified as a Level 3 technical expert under federal law (10CFR21) to write, approve, and execute quality assurance testing of nuclear power plant safety systems and components. Rick has been a member of our adjunct faculty off and on since 1971, serving as Assistant Professor during 1972-3. He has also been an adjunct at Wayne State, teaching the graduate power systems course. |
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Mr. Sweet has been an adjunct faculty member at LTU since 1994. In that time he has taught for the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Math & Computer Science, Technology, and Continuing Education. His primary focus is Control Systems (ECE) and Software Engineering (MCS). He is passionate about teaching real-world skills to his primary customers – the students. Mr. Sweet has been engaged in the industry of developing real-time embedded software/systems for automotive and industrial applications since 1987. He currently holds the position of Principal Engineer in the Software Engineering department at Lear Corporation. In this role he is a departmental resource for preventing and resolving technical issues in software product development. He also facilitates the application and adaptation of corporate product development processes. He is interested in learning and applying contemporary product development and improvement methodologies, and disseminating that knowledge to his colleagues and students. He holds a M.S. in Electronic and Computer Control System from Wayne State University (1993), and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University (1987). As CEO of TEKNOWLEDGE, LLC, he enjoys writing informative works that are pleasant to read, and delivering practical short courses to meet the technical education needs of his clients. |
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Mr. Taleb received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, a Master Certificate in IT Project Management from The George Washington University, Washington, DC and an MBA from Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI. Mr. Taleb has over 10 years of manufacturing experience at Chrysler Corporation in Process Controls and IT Systems. He presently holds a lead position at Chrysler in the Network Corporate Design. He has over 6 years of college teaching experience in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Networking and Mathematics. Mr. Taleb is also an active member of IEEE, PMI (Project Management Institution), Chrysler Management Club and ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education.) |
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Dr. Turner holds an Honor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal College of Science and Technology. He received his PhD in Electrical Machines from the University of Strathclyde. Previous work experience includes teaching at Paisley University (Scotland), working for an engineering consultancy in Europe, and 15 years with Lucas Industries (now TRW). In the U.S.A. he worked for Lucas and Eaton Corp. He retired from Eaton after 16 years service as chief technologist. His main areas of interest have been in brushless motors, controls, drive circuits, and electro-magnetic sensors and actuators. Dr. Turner holds 14 U.S. patents. |
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Dr Nicholas G. Zorka is an entrepreneur who specializes in the field of artificial intelligence - fuzzy logic. His PhD dissertation was titled "Adaptive Fuzzy Cluster Tracking Techniques with Radar Applications". Dr Zorka's work in adaptive fuzzy logic with the use of sensors such as radar, far IR, and cameras, led to the development of key invention disclosures for which Ford Motor received US patents in the field of automotive safety applications. While working in Ford's Scientific Research Laboratories, Dr Zorka also developed new patentable concepts in emission controls, resulting in huge vehicle savings and the meeting of new automotive emissions standards. Dr Zorka has published technical papers for the ASME and IEEE, and for internal consumption at Ford in the areas of emission controls, automotive safety, and mechanical design. He has presented his finding at prestigious technical conferences in Austria and Italy, as well as in the USA. Dr Zorka started NICA-Engineering, a consulting business, in 2006. He now specializes in artificial intelligence controls and computational fluid dynamics. As a consultant, he has worked on computational fluid dynamics in the generation of wind power. His company has submitted proposals to the US Army for unmanned ground vehicle applications. Dr Zorka's academic background covers both mechanical and electrical engineering. His four college degrees include a bachelors in mechanical engineering, a masters in engineering mechanics, a masters in electronics and computer control, and a PhD in systems engineering. |
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