Short Biography

Satish Udpa

Dean, College of Engineering and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226

EDUCATION :

Colorado State University Electrical Engineering Ph.D. - 1983

Colorado State University Electrical Engineering M.S. - 1980

J.N.T. University, Hyderabad, India Electrical Engineering Post Grad. Dip. - 1977

J.N.T. University, Hyderabad, India Electrical Engineering B.Tech - 1975

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2006 - Present Dean, College of Engineering, Michigan Sate University, E. Lansing, MI

2005-2006 Acting Dean, College of Engineering, Michigan Sate University, E. Lansing, MI

2001-2005 Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI

2000-2001 Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

1997-2001 Associate Chairman, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State

University, Ames, IA

1992-2000 Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Iowa State

University, Ames, IA

1990-1992 Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State

University, Ames, IA

1988-1990 Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort

Collins

1984-1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University,

Fort Collins

1983-1984 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State

University, Fort Collins

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Fellow, American Society of Nondestructive Testing

Fellow, Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing

Permanent Secretary, World Federation of NDE Centers. (1999-2003)

Technical Editor, Electromagnetic Nondestructive Testing Handbook

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Regional Editor, International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics

Editorial Board Member, Nondestructive Testing & Evaluation (1997-2002)

Chair, ECE Division, American Society for Engineering Education (2005-2006)

Special Recognition Award, Leadership through Engineering Academic Diversity Program 2000, Warren Boast Teaching Award, 1999, 1998. Outstanding Engineering Professor Award, 1997. Electrical Engineering Department "Top Professor" Award, 1990, 1989, and 1985. Deans Council Award for Outstanding Contributions to the College of Engineering in Research, Education and Service, 1988.

A. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. K. Arunachalam, L. Udpa, and S. Udpa, "Microwave Imaging of Penetrable Scatterers Using Deformable Mirror", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, April 2007.

2. Z. Zeng, L. Udpa, and S. S. Udpa, "Modeling of Anisotropic Magnetic Shielding Using the Two Scalar Potential Formulation," IEEE Transactions of Magnetics, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 3147-3149, October 2006.

3. Z. Zeng, L. Udpa, and S. Udpa, "Robust Design of a Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Inspection Tool Using the Taguchi Method," Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 17-28, Jan-Mar 2006.

4. A. Joshi, L. Udpa and S. Udpa, "Adaptive Wavelets for Characterizing Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals from Pipeline Inspection,", IEEE Transactions of Magnetics, Vol. 32, Issue 10, pp. 3168-3170, Oct. 2006.

5. Y. Tian, S. S. Udpa, N. Nair and S. Ramakrishnan, "Modeling of Electromagnetic Heating Effects During "In-Vivo" Testing of Prosthetic Heart Valves", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 42, Issue 10, pp. 3563-3565, October 2006.

6. K. Arunachalam, V. R. Melapudi, L. Udpa, and S. S. Udpa, "Microwave NDT of Cement-Based Materials Using Far Field Reflection Coefficients," Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, No. 7, 39, pp. 585-593, 2006

7. A. Tamburrino, N. Nair, S. S. Udpa, L Udpa, "Experimental Extraction of Time-of-Flight from Eddy Current Testing Data", to appear in "Studies in Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics", Vol. 26, IOS press, 2006.

8. N. V. Nair, V. R. Melapudi, L. Xin, L. Udpa, and S. S. Udpa, "A GMR Based Eddy Current System for NDE of Aircraft Structures," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 3312-3314, October 2006.

9. P. Ramuhalli, L. Udpa, and S. Udpa, "Finite Element Neural Networks for Solving Differential Equations," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1381-1392, November 2005.

10. R. Grimberg, L. Udpa, A. Savin, R. Steigmann, and S. S. Udpa, "Inner-Eddy-Current Transducer with Rotating Magnetic Field: Theoretical Model, Forward Problem," Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 61-74, 2005.

11. R. Grimberg, L. Udpa, A. Savin, R. Steigmann, V. Palihovici, and S. Udpa, "2D Eddy Current Sensors Array," Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 264-271, June 2006.

12. R. Grimberg, L. Udpa, A. Savin, R. Steigmann, and S. S. Udpa, "Inner-Eddy-Current Transducer with Rotating Magnetic Field, Experimental Results: Application to Nondestructive Examination of Pressure Tubes in PHWR Nuclear Power Plants," Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 75-97, 2005.

13. S. C. Chan, R. Clifford, S. Majumdar, N. Nair, S. Ramakrishnan, Y. Li, P. Ramuhalli, L. Udpa, and S. S. Udpa, "Novel Methods for Detecting Fractures in Prosthetic Heart Valves," Insight, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 15-19, January 2005.

14. Z. Zeng, L. Udpa and S. Udpa, "Optimization of Test Parameters for Magneto-Optic Imaging Using Taguchi's Parameter Design and Response-Model Approach", submitted to International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, 2005.

15. Z. Zeng, L. Xuan, L. Udpa and S. Udpa, "Probability of Detection Model for Gas Transmission Pipeline Inspection", Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 99-110, 2004.

16. Y. Li, L. Udpa and S. Udpa, "Three-Dimensional Defect Reconstruction from Eddy-Current NDE Signals Using a Genetic Local Search Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 410-417, March 2004.

17. R. Polikar, L. Udpa, S. Udpa, and V. Honavar, "An Incremental Learning Algorithm with Confidence Estimation for Automated Identification of NDE Signals," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 990-1001, August 2004.

18. A. Tamburrino, R. Fresa, S. Udpa and Y. Tian, "Three-Dimensional Defect Localization from Time of Flight/Eddy Current Testing Data," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 1148-1151, March 2004

19. P. Ramuhalli, L. Udpa, S. Udpa, "Neural Network Based Inversion Algorithms in Magnetic Flux Leakage NDE," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 93, No. 10, May 2003, pp. 8274-8276.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1. Program Chair, 2005 American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference, ECE Division, Portland, OR, June 2005.

2. Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE EIT Conference, East Lansing, MI

3. Co-Chair, 2007 International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, East Lansing, MI