Electrical Power
Resume:
Steven R. Shaw
Mailing Address
http://matrix.coe.montana.edu
ECE Department
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Montana State University
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Bozeman, MT 59717
Research System identi cation and controls, energy and fuel cell systems, instrumentation and
Interests measurement, analog circuits.
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cambridge, MA
January 1997 - January 2000
Ph.D.
Dissertation titled System Identi cation Techniques and Modeling for Nonintrusive Load
Diagnostics.
January 1997 - January 2000
E.E.
June 1995 - January 1997
M.Eng.
September 1991 - June 1995
S.B. EECS
Experience Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Montana State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bozeman, MT
Associate Professor with tenure September 2006 - present
Assistant Professor July 2000 - September 2006
Laboratory for Electronic and
Electromagnetic Systems, MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cambridge, MA
Postdoctoral Associate February 2000 - July 2000
Research Assistant June 1996 - January 2000
MIT EECS Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cambridge, MA
Course development TA, Signals and Systems January 1996 - June 1996
TA, Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory September 1995 - December 1995
Laboratory for Electronic and
Electromagnetic Systems at MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Research September 1992 - September 1995
Bates Linear Accelerator (MIT/DOE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Middleton, MA
Undergraduate Research June 1992 - September 1992
Awards IEEE Prize Paper Award, Energy and Power Development Committee, 2007.
Vice President for Research Award for Meritorious Science/Technology, 2007.
Recipient of an NSF CAREER award, 2006.
Named electrical and computer engineering instructor of the year 2004-2005 by student
vote.
Elected to IEEE Senior Member, February 2005.
Named electrical and computer engineering instructor of the year 2003-2004 by student
vote.
National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering award, 2003. The Frontiers of
Engineering event brings together a select group of emerging engineering leaders from
industry, academe, and government labs...
Technology Review magazine TR100 award, 2002. The TR100 award is for the top
one-hundred innovators under age thirty- ve who will create the future according to
Technology Review magazine. The TR100 is an international award open to many
disciplines.
Montana State University teaching and learning fellow, 2001.
MIT Laboratory for Electronic and Electromagnetic Systems Grainger Foundation Award,
2001.
MIT David Adler memorial prize for best thesis in Electrical Engineering.
MIT Masterworks thesis prize.
Af liations Senior Member IEEE, Member Sigma Xi. Sigma Xi chapter co-chair.
Consulting Mystic Tackleworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mystic, CT
Consultant September 2007 - present
Low-power circuit design for high-tech, bio-mimetic shing lure.
Voltaic, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Santa Fe, NM and Great Falls, MT
Consultant August 2002 - May 2003
Design and prototype of non-contact gambling machine monitoring system.
Satcon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cambridge, MA
Consultant January 1998 - July 1998
Evaluated brush wear characteristics of a DC motor.
Funding National Science Foundation, grant 0547616, CAREER: Fuel Cell Degradation
Diagnostics and Control, August 1 2006 to July 31, 2011, $400,000.
HiTEC, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Project, September 1, 2002 to August 31, 2008.
$1,202,359.
UTC/USAF, High Power Density SOFC Project,, September 19, 2006 to September 18,
2007. $77,138.
National Science Foundation, grant 0321358, Development of a Step-Scan Fourier
Transform Spectrometer With sub 1/2 HeNe Wavelength Step Size, August 1, 2003 to
July 31, 2007, $339,000
Department of Energy, PEM Degradation Project, January 1, 2003 to December 31,
2006. $318,995.
National Science Foundation, grant 0135229, Modeling and Control of Multi-source
Wind, Photovoltaic, and Fuel Cell Distributed Generation Systems, July 1, 2002 to June
30, 2006, $240,000.
Fuel Cell Energy Corporation, Fuel Cell Response Characterization, Monitoring, and
Modeling, March 1, 2003 to April 31, 2006. $240,909.
Architectural Energy Corporation, Research Support for the High Information Content
Load Monitoring Project, July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2003, $40,000.
Patents R. Brandon Inberg, S. R. Shaw, and L. H. Spangler, Enhanced Step-mode FTIR position
Control., two provisionals led, conversion pending, US.
T. Zhu, S. R. Shaw and S. B. Leeb, Transient Recognition Control for Hybrid Fuel Cell
Systems., provisional led, conversion pending, US and international.
S. R. Shaw, C. Yakymyshyn and S. B. Leeb. Non-invasive Multicurrent Sensors,
provisional led, no conversion.
S. B. Leeb, U. A. Kahn and S. R. Shaw, Multiprocessing transient event detector for use
in a nonintrusive electrical load monitoring system, US Patent 5,717,325.
Selected R. Brandon Inberg, S. R. Shaw, L. H. Spangler, Enhanced Step-Mode FTIR Position
Journal Control, submitted to Review of Scienti c Instruments.
S. R. Shaw, S. B. Leeb, and Les Norford Nonintrusive Load Monitoring and Diagnostics
in Power Systems, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement.
S. R. Shaw and C. R. Laughman. A Kalman- lter Spectral Envelope Preprocessor, IEEE
Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 56, No. 5, October 2007, pp.
2010-2017.
S. Pasricha, M. Keppler, S. R. Shaw, and M. H. Nehrir. Comparison and Identi cation of
Static Electrical Terminal Fuel Cell Models, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion,
Vol. 22, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 746-754.
S. R. Shaw and C. R. Laughman. A Method for Nonlinear Least Squares with Structured
Residuals, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 10, October 2006, pp
1704-1708.
S. Pasricha and S. R. Shaw. A Dynamic PEM Fuelcell Model, IEEE Transactions on
Energy Conversion, Vol 21, Number 2, June 2006, pp. 484-490.
T. Zhu, S. R. Shaw and S. B. Leeb, Transient Recognition Control for Hybrid Fuel Cell
Systems., IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol 21, No 1, March 2006, pp
195-201.
M.H. Nehrir, C. Wang, and S.R. Shaw, Fuel Cells: Promising Devices for Distributed
Generation, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, January/February 2006, pp 47 53.
K. D. Lee, S. B. Leeb, L. K. Norford, P. R. Armstrong, J. Holloway, and S. R. Shaw,
Estimation of Variable-Speed-Drive Power Consumption from Harmonic Content, IEEE
Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2005.
C. Wang, M.H. Nehrir, and S.R. Shaw, Dynamic Models and Model Validation for PEM
Fuel Cells using Electrical Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 20,
No. 2, June 2005, PP 442-451. IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award
S. R. Shaw, M. Keppler, and S. B. Leeb. Pre-Estimation for Better Initial Guesses, IEEE
Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 53, no 3, June 2004, pp. 762-769.
C. R. Laughman, D. Lee, R. Cox, S. R. Shaw, S. B. Leeb and L. Norford. Advanced
Nonintrusive Monitoring of Electric Loads, Invited paper. IEEE Computer Applications
in Power, 2002.
D. Luo, L. K. Norford, S. R. Shaw, and S. B. Leeb. Monitoring HVAC Equipment
Electrical Loads from a Centralized Location - Methods and Field Test Results, ASHRAE
Transactions, Vol. 108, Pt. 1, 2002.
S. R. Shaw, D. Luo, L. K. Norford and S. B. Leeb. Detection of HVAC Faults via
Electrical Load Monitoring, International Journal of HVAC&R Research, 8(1):13-40,
2002.
D. K. Jackson, S. B. Leeb and S. R. Shaw Adaptive Control of an Inductive Power
Transfer Coupling for Servomechanical Systems. IEEE Transactions on Power
Electronics, vol. 15, no. 6, November 2000.
S. R. Shaw, C. R. Laughman, S. B. Leeb and R. F. Lepard A Power Quality Prediction
System., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 47, no. 3, June 2000, pp.
511-17.
S. R. Shaw and S. B. Leeb, Identi cation of induction motor parameters from transient
stator current measurements. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 46, no. 1,
Feb. 1999, pp. 139-49.
S. R. Shaw, C. B. Abler, R. F. Lepard, D. Luo, S. B. Leeb and L. K. Norford,
Instrumentation for high performance nonintrusive electrical load monitoring. Journal
of Solar Energy Engineering - Transactions of the ASME, vol. 120, no. 3, Aug. 1998, pp.
224-9.
D. K. Jackson, A. M. Schultz, S. B. Leeb, A. H. Mitwalli, G. C. Verghese and S. R. Shaw,
A multirate digital controller for a 1.5-kW electric vehicle battery charger. IEEE
Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 12, no. 6, Nov. 1997, pp. 1000-6.
S. B. Leeb, A. Ortiz, R. F. Lepard, S. R. Shaw and J. L. Kirtley Jr., Applications of
real-time median ltering with fast digital and analog sorters. IEEE/ASME Transactions
on Mechatronics, vol. 2, no. 2, June 1997, pp. 136-43.
S. B. Leeb, S. R. Shaw, J. L. Kirtley Jr., Transient event detection in spectral envelope
estimates for nonintrusive load monitoring., IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol.
10, no. 3, July 1995, pp. 1200-10.
Selected B. Inberg, C. Fahlstrom, L. Dobeck, L. H. Spangler, and S. R. Shaw, Enhanced
Conference Step-Mode FTIR Position Control, in Fourier Transform Spectroscopy/ Hyperspectral
Articles Imaging and Sounding of the Environment, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical
Society of America, 2007), paper FWA6.
Leeb, S. B., M. Alvira, R. W. Cox, J. J. Cooley, J. L. Kirtley, Jr., S. R. Shaw Build to
Win: A Hands-On Approach to Undergraduate Instruction in Power Electronics,, IEEE
Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Power Electronics Education Workshop,
Orlando, FL, June 2007.
Leeb, S. B., J. L. Kirtley, E. Tung, W. Wichakool, R. Bavetta, S. R. Shaw, R. W. Cox,
Motor Designs for Instruction in Drives,, IEEE Power Electronics Specialists
Conference, Power Electronics Education Workshop, Orlando, FL, June 2007.
Robert Cox, S. B. Leeb, S. R. Shaw and L. K. Norford, Transient Event Detection for
Nonintrusive Load Monitoring and Demand Side Management Using Voltage Distortion,
IEEE APEC 06, pp 1751 1757.
C. Wang, M.H. Nehrir, and S.R. Shaw, Dynamic Models and Model Validation for PEM
Fuel Cells Using Electrical Circuits, presented at the 2005 IEEE PES General Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, June 12-16, 2005.
J. A. Smith, M. H. Nehrir, V. Gerez and S. R. Shaw A Broad Look at the Workings,
Types, and Applications of Fuel Cells, IEEE PES Summer meeting, 2002.
S. R. Shaw, D. J. Evangelista, S. B. Leeb and C. R. Laughman Nonintrusive Load
Monitoring and Identi cation in an Automotive Environment. 6th Annual ElectrIMACS
Conference, Sept 14-16 1999, Lisbon, Portugal.
S. B. Leeb, D. K. Jackson and S. R. Shaw, Adaptive Control of an Inductive Power
Transfer Coupling for Servomechanical Systems. 30th Annual IEEE Power Electronics
Specialists Conference, 1999, Charleston, South Carolina.
S. R. Shaw, D.K. Jackson, T. A. Denison and S. B. Leeb, Computer-aided design and
application of sinusoidal switching patterns. Record of the IEEE Workshop on Computers
in Power Electronics, July 1998, pp. 185-191.
S. B. Leeb, B.C. Lesieutre, and S.R. Shaw, Determination of Load Composition Using
Spectral Envelope Estimates, 27th Annual North American Power Symposium,
Bozeman, Montana, pp. 618 627, October 1995.
S. B. Leeb and S. R. Shaw, Harmonic estimates for transient event detection.
Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Sept. 1994, Galway, Ireland.
Invited S. R. Shaw Fuel Cells, Transients, and controls, HITEC Seminar Series, Bozeman, MT.
Talks December 7, 2005.
S. R. Shaw, Transient Recognition Control for Fuel Cell Systems, SECA CTP Peer
Review Meeting, October, 25, 2005.
S. R. Shaw, Fuel Cell Research Overview, College of Engineering Advisory Board
Meeting, April 24, 2005.
S. R. Shaw, Instrumentation for PEM Fuel Cell Degradation Monitoring, invited paper,
IEEE PES Summer meeting, Denver, CO, 2004.
Software S. R. Shaw, pci1710.c. Gnu Public License, 2002.
Linux 2.2 kernel device driver for Advantech PCI-1710 data acquisition card.
S. R. Shaw, msuprep.c. MIT version of Gnu Public License, 2002.
Kalman- lter based spectral envelope preprocessor hand-optimized for AMD Athlon FPU.
M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, fdjac.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
Finite difference Jacobian evaluation.
M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, lmsvd.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
Implementation of the Mor /Levenburg-Marquardt code with regularization using the
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singular value decomposition.
M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, lsvd.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
Computes the Levenburg-Marquardt parameter given the SVD of the Jacobian.
M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, gn.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
Implementation of the Gauss-Newton method using the singular value decomposition.
Graduate Montana State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bozeman, MT
Students September 2006 - present
Xuelei Hu, Ph. D. program
Supervised Degradation oriented controls for SOFC systems.
September 2006 - present
Pete Lindahl, M.S. program
UTC/USAF High performance SOFC systems
September 2006 - Summer 2007
Chris Stephani, M.S. program
CAREER multidisciplinary controls demonstrations.
August 2002 - August 2006
Tao Zhu, Ph.D. program.
Transient recognition with application to steady-state load prediction for next-generation
fuel cell and multi-source control systems.
September 2003 - May 2006
Sandip Pasricha, M.S. program
PEM degradation monitoring and modeling.
January 2004 - May 2006
John Lackey, M. S. program
Instrumentation development for next generation hybrid fuel cell monitoring systems.
January 2005 - May 2005
Connie Nelson, M.S. program
Modular power electronics test system.
August 2002 - August 2005
Brandon Inberg, M. S. program.
DSP-based controls for FTIR spectroscopy.
September 2000 - May 2003
Marc Keppler, M.S. program.
Time-continuation methods for identi cation of dynamic systems. Instrumentation, model
validation, and identi cation for fuel cell modeling.
Theses Massachusetts Institute of Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cambridge, MA
Jointly
Christopher Laughman, Parameter Identi cation and Modelling for the Prediction of
Supervised
Voltage Distortion, M. Eng., 2000.
Christopher Laughman, A Method for Predicting Power Quality, S. B., 1999.
Christopher Salthouse, Interface Improvements for the Nonintrusive Load Monitor, M.
Eng., 2000.
Dennis Evangelista, Parameter Estimation of Induction Motors using PWM Inverters,
M. Eng., 1999.
Craig Abler, Spectral Envelope Estimation for Transient Event Detection, M. Eng.,
1998.
Anuj Mohan, An Impedance Characterization System for the Electric Utility S.B., 1998.
Jonathan Hunt, Xnyquist, a program for Nyquist plotting in X-Windows, S.B., 1997.
Under- Montana State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bozeman, MT
graduate Kristin Sommers. Controls for micro-mirror positioning.
Research
Scott Dent. Pressure control of parallel fuel cell current sharing.
Students
Eric Moog. SOFC gas mixing and degradation testing.
Dominic Lombardozzi. PEM uorescence spectroscopy teststand development.
Sarah Ray. Solid oxide fuelcell teststand.
Nels Peterson. Automated solid-oxide fuel cell measurement system.
Austin Beard. Instrumentation for fuel cell monitoring.
Lief Summer eld. Instrumentation for fuel cell characterization.
Terry Moltzan. Power electronics for fuel cell systems integration.
Carl Graving. Computer support, linux distribution development.
Aimee Whitmore. Literature search, research administrative support.
Don Buchholz. Load center construction, instrumentation for nonintrusive monitoring,
lecture demo construction.
Senior Montana State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bozeman, MT
Design
Fall 2007
A High-Voltage Sawtooth Generator for Langmuir Probe
Projects
Brian Weniger, Conrad Jackson, Mackenzie Wilz
Supervised
A Flexible Hardware Platform for Embedded
Fall 2002
Signal Conditioning and Control
Patrick Collins, Pradip Ghimire, Calvin Coopmans.
Fall 2002
Nonlinear Control Systems Demonstration
Scott Warnick, Alana Amunrud.
Spring 2001
Tektronix Scope Probe Project
Antony Veches, Robert Stefani, and Corey Kopp.
Classes Montana State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bozeman, MT
Taught
Spring 2007
EE321 Control Systems
Spring 2006.
EE321 Control Systems
Fall 2005
EE525 Sequential State Estimation
Spring 2005.
EE321 Control Systems
Fall 2004.
EE526 Kalman Filtering
Spring 2004.
EE321 Control Systems
Fall 2003.
EE521 Nonlinear System Dynamics
Spring 2003.
EE321 Control Systems
Fall 2002.
EE308 Signals and Systems
Spring 2002.
EE321 Control Systems
Fall 2001.
EE308 Signals and Systems
Fall 2001.
EE216 Introduction to Electronics
Spring 2001.
EE321 Control Systems
Spring 2001.
EE490 Build an Induction Coil Accelerator
Fall 2000.
EE216 Introduction to Electronics
indicates development of a new class or signi cant modi cation of an existing class
including the development of new materials and lectures.
Committees Montana State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bozeman, MT
Fall 2006 present
ATAC learning management system committee
Fall 2006 present
ECE Strategic planning committee
Fall 2004 present
ECE Graduate Committee
Spring 2006 Spring 2007
President s Academic Technology Advisory Committee
Fall 2002 Spring 2007
COE Strategic Planning and Initiatives Committee
Spring 2001 Spring 2006
MSU Undergraduate Studies Committee
Spring 2004
MSU Presidential Scholarship Selection Committee
Spring 2001 Spring 2003
ECE Department Curriculum Committee
Spring 2001
MSU Verbal Core Committee
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