2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Mustafa G. Guvench University of Southern Maine [biography]

   Dr. Guvench received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a full professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to joining U.S.M. he served on the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh and M.E.T.U., Ankara, Turkey. His research interests and publications span the field of microelectronics including I.C. design, MEMS and semiconductor technology and its application in sensor development, finite element and analytical modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors, and electronic instrumentation and measurement.

2. Mr. Philip W Swanson University of Southern Maine [biography]

   Philip W. Swanson received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern Maine in December of 2014. His interest lies in the distributed application of clean energy technologies. He was founder and president of the USM Engineers Without Borders, a student group that focused on delivering clean energy to communities in developing countries. He led a group that worked with an orphanage in Guatemala to bring solar power to the children of Hogar Rafael Ayau. Professionally, Swanson has worked as an intern at Pika Energy, a company which designs and manufactures residential wind turbines and solar hybrid systems, which operate on a high voltage DC micro grid. He aspires to enter a graduate program in power electronics.

3. Mr. Kevin Michael Wacker University of Southern Maine [biography]

   Kevin Michael Wacker is a student at the University of Southern Maine in the Electrical Engineering program. In the summer of 2013 received a technical internship at Clough Harbor and Associates and continued the internship throughout the year and into the summer of 2014. He grew up in the town of York, Maine.

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