Electrical Engineering Computer Science

Location:

Little Rock, AR

Posted:

July 02, 2024

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Russel E. Bruhn, Ph.D. 501-***-**** (Cell) *******@****.***

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Little Rock, Arkansas 72205

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Dec 1997.

Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

Dissertation Title: Electrical and Heat Conduction Environment Surrounding

Microbes Exposed to Pulsed Electric Fields.

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, August 1994.

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.

Thesis Title: Optimum Configuration of a Foreshortened Antenna

Bachelor of Science, Physics, August 1992.

Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota.

Bachelor of Science, Forest Management, May 1981.

University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Bachelor of Science, Water Resource Management, May 1981.

University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Professional Experience Summarized

Emeritus Professor of Information Science, September 2017 – present, I retired from the university in 2017 and took a position in China. Before I went to China my elderly mother needed me to care for her. She has since passed but then the Covid pandemic ended the opportunity in China.

Professor of Information Science, January 2011 – August 2017, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Professor in the Department of Information Science.

Associate Dean, January 2005 – January 2011, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Associate Dean of the Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering.

Department Chair: August 2001-July 2006, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Chair of the Department of Information Science.

Assistant Dean: July 2000-July 2001, Zayed University. Assistant Dean of the College of Information Systems.

Supervisor/Unit Head: July 1998-June 2000, Zayed University. Supervisor of the Department of Information Technology, Mathematics and Science.

Research Assistant/Instructor: August 1994-May 1998, Washington State University. Researched the effects of high voltage on bacteria in food. Instructor for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Assistant: August 1992-94, Iowa State University. Designed and developed thin film microwave antennas.

Professional Experiences

Emeritus Professor of Information Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 2017 – present.

Retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and took a position in China. Unfortunately, my elderly mother needed me to take care of her and I delayed my appointment in China. My mother passed away but the Covid pandemic going on ended any chances of working in China.

Professor of Information Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 2011 – present.

Taught courses in subject areas such as, Internet technologies, advanced server technologies, XML, Java, C#, .NET, and other object-oriented technologies.

Advised the undergraduate students in the Department of Information Science.

Mentored M.S. and Ph.D. students in Integrated Computing, Engineering, and Bioinformatics graduate programs.

Conducted research in the area of Information Quality. Looking at protecting privacy and improving entity resolution in academic databases.

Associate Dean, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 2005 – January 2011.

The Associate Dean was required to work effectively with the College’s department chairs, directors and fellow administrators at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR).

Managed the day-to-day activities of the College of Engineering and Information Technology. I also participated as part of the University’s academic leadership team. Was Acting Dean when the Dean was traveling or out of the office.

Helped manage the College’s eight-million-dollar budget.

Corporate relations: The Associate Dean worked with the Assistant Dean of External Relations to secure substantial philanthropic gifts and help secure a sound financial base for the College. The Associate Dean was heavily involved with the surrounding community and promoted the College’s stature nationally and internationally.

Department Chair of Information Science: University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Little Rock, Arkansas, August 2001 – July 2006.

Founding Chair of the Department of Information Science. This program was created to produce tomorrow’s database administrators, Internet developers and network managers. Major duties were to build the department into a highly competitive program. This included hiring highly qualified faculty, developing curriculum, being the liaison officer with surrounding industries and providing leadership and administrative duties for faculty and students in the Information Science Program.

Designed and developed the curiculum around computer labs and in concert with the knowledge-based companies in Arkansas. My goal was to have an electronic curriculum driven in a studio lab setting and not your typical lecture style format.

Taught courses in subject areas such as, Internet technologies, advanced server technologies, XML, Java, C#, .NET, and other object-oriented technologies.

Capstone Course: Designed and developed a novel way of doing a two-semster senior project or capstone course. Two goals of the capstone course were that the students get a real-life experience of the corporate world and that they used the knowledge they acquired during their first three years under the Department of Information Science’s curriculum. Students create a “mock” consultant company and work with a company in Little Rock to help the company improve its information systems services and give the students a real corporate world experience.

Assistant Dean: Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. July 2000 – August 2001.

Assistant Dean during the inaugural year of the College of Information Systems at Zayed University. Zayed University, is the country’s only university exclusively for national women. The vision of the College of Information Systems is to prepare students for success and leadership in an increasingly technical world.

Worked with the Provost, Deans, Assistant Deans and Directors to create policy for Zayed University, its colleges and departments.

Taught Information Systems courses, such as Java, ASP.NET, data structures, Internet technologies, databases and software engineering.

Worked on developing an Industry-based Research and Development Program (IRDP). The IRDP was to develop and nurture collaborative research projects to be carried out jointly by Zayed University’s students and faculty on behalf of business and government organizations in Dubai Internet City, a completely electronic business park designed to put the United Arab Emirates at the forefront of E-Commerce in the Middle East.

Supervisor/Unit Head: Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. July 1998 – June 2000.

Supervisor during the inaugural year of the Department of Information Technology, Mathematics, and Sciences (ITMS). The primary goal of the ITMS Department is to create competent computer users by integrating state-of-the-art technologies with academia curricula in information technology, mathematics, and science.

As Supervisor I was responsible for the administration of the ITMS program and management of 33 faculty in the day-to-day execution of their responsibilities on the Dubai Campus.

Taught one course a semester in the ITMS Department, a sequence of interdisciplinary courses providing instruction and exploration in applying, analyzing, interpreting, and electronically communicating information obtained from multimedia sources. In the ITMS program, information technology, mathematics, statistics, and science are integrated and investigated through a series of individual and team projects. These projects involve extensive use of the Internet, email, networks, computer software, a variety of databases, and database management systems.

In June of 1999 I was promoted to Unit Head. The Unit Head overseas both the Dubai campus and the Abu Dhabi campus of Zayed University and is responsible for coordination of the curriculum and duties of fifty-four faculty between the two campuses.

Duties included: faculty hiring, assigning teaching assignments, organizing faculty training and professional development activities, evaluating faculty performance, advising faculty and students, attending administrative meetings, disseminating administrative information to faculty, working with the other departments at Zayed University so the ITMS Department runs smoothly.

Research Assistant /Instructor: Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. July 1994 – June 1998.

Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Conducted and coordinated research contract for the U.S. Army on non-thermal pasteurization of liquid foods; designed and developed computer software to predict the death of microbes in liquid foods when subjected to high intensity pulsed electric fields.

The software designed was used to animate the electric field destroying the cell membrane and relied extensively on computer animation. By graphically watching the electric field build up across the cell membrane one could predict when the microbes would die.

Research Assistant: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, June 1991-May 1994.

Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Studied analog and digital electronics for completion of M.S. degree. Fabricated BJT and MOSFET devices in the Microelectronics center and obtained thorough knowledge of semiconductor processing techniques, including; oxidation, diffusion, photolithography, and metalization.

Developed a computer software program to analyze microwave antennas for optimum radiation efficiency. By designing the computer program to animate the radiation of the microwave antennas one could predict the radiation efficiency of different antenna shapes and designs.

Designed real-time software to implement excitation of these microwave antennas. Used sensitive instrumentation to measure and diagnose electronic devices, such as; sensors, thin film microwave antennas, and bipolar junction transistors.

References

Steven Jennings, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Information Science

Former Program Director of the Joint UALR & UAMS Bioinformatics Program

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Phone: 520-***-**** (Cell)

Email: ************@*****.***

Hussain Al-Rizzo, Ph.D.

Department of Systems Engineering

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Phone: 501-***-**** (Cell)

501-***-**** (Office)