Electrical Engineer

Slobodanka Muzdeka

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Personal Data:

US Citizen, Married, Female, White

Education:

Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering August, 2004

(GPA 4.0/4.0)

Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana

M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering August, 2002

(GPA 4.0/4.0)

University of Belgrade Belgrade, Serbia

M.S. in Electrical Engineering September, 1996

(GPA 9.83/10)

University of Belgrade Belgrade, Serbia

B.S. in Electrical Engineering December, 1989

(GPA 8.61/10)

Research and Engineering Experience:

HFG Engineering US, Inc, New Orleans August, 2008 - January, 2009

Electrical Engineer, E&I Department

. Participated in several projects concerning new equipment wiring,

area classification, lighting calculations, voltage drop

calculations, Toshiba and Allen-Bradley Variable Frequency Drive

parameter setting, GE Multilin 469 and GE Power Quality Meter

Programming.

Audubon Engineering, New Orleans February 6, 2006 - August,

2008

Project/Lead Engineer II, E&I Department - Groups for Automation and

Electrical Studies

. Assigned to the Blind Faith Project, specifically in charge of

building the control system for a new Chevron's platform consisting

of HMI (Wonderware) and PLC programming portions, along with

enabling the interaction with the third party systems. Responsible

for setting up OSI PI Historian server, finding the optimal PI

configuration with respect to the server-client architecture used

and establishing communications with the Wonderware and Chevron's

PI Historian central database.

. Catalyst Reporting Applications for creating daily reports in a

required format from the well configuration and test data

programmed in Wonderware for Chevron's ST151 and SP78 offshore

platforms,

. Responsible for Wonderware 9.5 and Allen-Bradley PLC programming

for Taylor's MC21 Platform Upgrade Project (Phase I).

. Performed SKM Steady State Power Flow, Short Circuit, Arc Flash and

Transient Motor Starting calculations and studies for various

clients - projects (Enbridge - Vector Athens, El Paso - Blue Creek

Compressor Station, Petrologistics - Olin Brine Project).

University of Houston Fall 2005

Visiting Faculty, Department of Engineering Technology

Tulane University Fall 2004 - Spring 2005

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer

Science

Dissertation research September 1998 - August 2004

"One Application of Control Theory in Defibrillation"

. In order to improve efficiency and safety of currently used

defibrillators, the application of control techniques to the

existing mathematical models of cardiac tissue exposed to strong

electrical fields has been proposed. Developed one efficient

approximate solution of the bidomain equations (bidomain models are

currently considered as the most complete description of cardiac

electrical activities). Moreover, the selected algorithm for

discretization of partial differential equations, consisting of the

method of separation of variables and modal analysis technique,

results in the state space representation of cardiac electrical

activities, which makes the model suitable for applications of

modern control theory. Also, the finite-dimensional model reveals

the connection to the older models of defibrillation - simple

circuit equivalents. Finally, an optimal controller designed for

the generalized version of a simple parallel resistor-capacitor

circuit has been applied to one- and three-mode expansions of the

bidomain model.

Teaching Assistantship September 1998 - May 2003

. ELEN 391: Electrical Engineering Lab 2; Tulane University, Fall

semesters 1998-2002; Teaching Assistant

. ELEN 392: Electrical Engineering Lab 3; Tulane University, Spring

semesters 1999-2003; Teaching Assistant

. ELEN 201: Electric Circuits I; Tulane University, Fall 2002;

Assisted the professor with grading

. ELEN 202: Electric Circuits II; Tulane University, Spring 2003;

Assisted the professor with grading

. Prepared and presented a couple of lectures for the following

courses: ELEN 346: Intro to Control Systems, and ELEN 642: Intro to

Digital Control Systems; Tulane University, Spring 2002

Research Assistantship Summer 2002

"Tulane Xavier Missile Defense Project"

Institute Nikola Tesla, Belgrade July 1991-August 1998

Associate Research Engineer (Power Systems Department), Full-time

position

. Participated in numerous research projects concerning power flow

and optimization in the area of large-scale power systems, with the

specialty in optimization of Reactive Volt-Ampere Sources in system

planning and voltage control. The lead engineer for a study

requested by Serbian Electric Power Utility Company, with the main

purpose to identify the factors generating increased losses in 400,

220, and 110 kV transmission networks, and propose the measures for

their reduction (duration: 2.5 years).

. Assigned to a big project in database management (development of an

ORACLE based application for distribution subsystems) in 1993-1995.

Responsible for all the project phases, from database programming,

through testing, to installing the final products at the customer

sites. Prepared and held presentations and training courses for the

program buyers' personnel.

Master thesis research September 1990 - September

1996

"Transient Behavior of Distribution Systems in the Presence of Shunt

Capacitors"

Publications and Presentations:

. S.Muzdeka, E.Barbieri, "Control theory inspired considerations of the

mathematical models of defibrillation", Proceedings of the 44th IEEE

Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control

Conference, 2005 Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005, pp. 7416-7421.

. S.Muzdeka, E.Barbieri, "On Optimal Defibrillating Pulse Synthesis",

submitted to The International Journal of Modern Engineering,

currently being reviewed.

. F.Belkhouche, S.Muzdeka, "A linearized model for permanent magnet

stepper motors", IECON'03 - Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference

of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Roanoke, Virginia,

November 2-6, 2003, pp.301-305.

. S.Muzdeka, E.Barbieri, "A New Approach to Optimization-Based

Defibrillation", Proceedings of the 38th Annual Rocky Mountain

Bioengineering Symposium, Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 20-22,

2001, pp.319-324.

. P.Rastgoufard, S.Muzdeka, M.Montgomery, S.Soergel, "Diagnostic

Automation of Voltage Regulators Using Acoustic Measurements",

Proceedings of the 32nd Southeastern Symposium on System Theory,

Tallahassee, Florida, March 5-7, 2000, pp.89-93.

. S.Muzdeka, M.Calovic, "Analysis of influencing factors on the peak

magnitude of the capacitor switching current", Proceedings of the 23nd

Symposium JUKO CIGRE, Herceg Novi, Yugoslavia, 1997.

. E.Turkovic, M.Djuric, Z.Radojevic, I.Skokljev, S.Muzdeka, "Electrical

Energy Losses in Complex Power System Networks and Basic Measures for

their Reduction", Symposium - Energy Systems in Southeastern Europe,

Proceedings, Ohrid, Macedonia, September 1995, Vol.2, pp.270-283.

. S.Muzdeka, E.Turkovic, Dj.Dobrijevic, "Optimization of optimal

switching configurations in power transmission systems", 22nd

Symposium JUKO CIGRE, Proceedings, Vrnjacka Banja, Yugoslavia, 1995.

. E.Turkovic, S.Muzdeka, "Reduction of technological consumption of

electrical energy in electric power systems", Proceedings of the

Industrial Engineering Conference, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1994, pp.334-

341.

. E.Turkovic, Z.Janjic, Dj.Dobrijevic, S.Muzdeka, "Analysis of parallel

operation of 400, 220, and 110 kV networks in Serbian power system and

technical and economical aspects of their switching configurations",

Proceedings of the 21st Symposium JUKO CIGRE, Vrnjacka Banja,

Yugoslavia, 1993.

. S.Muzdeka, E.Turkovic, "Factors Influencing Active Power Losses in

Transmission Power Systems", Publications of Nikola Tesla Institute,

Belgrade, 1992.

. E.Turkovic, S.Muzdeka, P.Stefanov, "A Mathematical Model for Reactive

Power Optimization", Publications of Nikola Tesla Institute, Belgrade,

Yugoslavia, 1992.

. S.Muzdeka, "A proposal for mathematical modeling of hydro-power plant

P-Q characteristics", Publications of Nikola Tesla Institute,

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1992.

. S.Muzdeka, "Determination of water flow - electric power dependence

for the short - term optimization of hydro-power plant operation",

Proceedings of the 20th Symposium JUKO CIGRE, Neum, Yugoslavia, 1991.

Awards:

. "Best of session" at Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, April,

2001.

. "Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical Engineering", Tulane

University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 2004.

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