Meet the Faculty

Department Contacts

Bruce C. Barnes, PhD, EE Program Director, Klamath Falls Contact

Office:PV278
Tel:541.885.1516
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Analog Electronics
Education: BS Electrical Engineering (1974), University of Illinois UC; MS Electrical Engineering (1979), University of Illinois UC; PhD EE (2006), University of Idaho

Cristina Crespo, PhD, EE(T) Program Director, Portland Contact

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.533.5190
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Analog/Mixed-Signal Electronics & IC Test
Education & Licenses: B.S. Physics (2002), B.S.Electrical Engineering (2002), M.S.Electrical & Computer Engineering (2004), Portland State University; M.Phil. Electrical Engineering (2009), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (2010), ETSIT - University of Vigo. Registered US Patent Agent (USPTO Bar Admission No. 68725)

Frank Rytkonen, P.E., REE Program Director, Portland Contact

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Instrumentation and control systems
Education & Licenses: B.S.L. Physics and Mathematics (1998), Excelsior College; M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005), Portland State University; Registered Professional Electrical Engineer (2009), Oregon.

James Zipay, REE Program Director, Klamath Falls Contact

Office:PV292
Tel:541.885.1543
Fax:541.885.1666
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Energy Systems, RF and Wireless
Education: B.S. Biology, Cortland State (1975);  A.A.S. in Electronics Technology, Broome Community College (1983);  B.S.E.E., SUNY/University of New Mexico (1987); M.S.E.E. Device Physics and VLSI

Faculty

Bruce C. Barnes, PhD, Assistant Professor (2010) & EE Program Director (2011)

Office:PV278
Tel:541.885.1516
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Analog Electronics
Education: BS Electrical Engineering (1974), University of Illinois UC; MS Electrical Engineering (1979), University of Illinois UC; PhD EE (2006), University of Idaho

Cristina Crespo, PhD, Assistant Professor, EET Program Director & Department Chair (2008)

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.533.5190
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Analog/Mixed-Signal Electronics & IC Test
Education & Licenses: B.S. Physics (2002), B.S.Electrical Engineering (2002), M.S.Electrical & Computer Engineering (2004), Portland State University; M.Phil. Electrical Engineering (2009), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (2010), ETSIT - University of Vigo. Registered US Patent Agent (USPTO Bar Admission No. 68725)

Hope Corsair, PhD (ABD), Assistant Professor (2011)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1252
Fax:503.786.5040
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Energy and Market Modeling
Education: B.S. Fundamental Sciences, Mechanical Engineering Concentration and German Minor (1996), Lehigh University; M.S. Civil Engineering, Renewable Energy/Building Systems Program (2005), University of Colorado, Boulder; M.S. Geography and Environmental Engineering (2010); PhD Geography and Environmental Engineering (ABD); The Johns Hopkins University; EIT (2001), Georgia

Paul Dingman MSEE, Associate Professor (1996)

Office:PV260
Tel:541.885.1554
Fax:541.885.1689
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Microocontrollers
Education: B.A. Physics (1974), MSEE (1976) University of Iowa 

Teshome Edae Jiru, PhD, Assistant Professor (2011)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1253
Fax:503.786.5040
Email:Send Email
Area of Expertise: Building Energy Simulation
Education: BSc (1995) Chemical Engineering, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; MS (2001) Biosystems Engineering, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; PhD (2006) Building Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Slobodan Petrovic, PhD, Associate Professor (2009)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1256
Fax:503.786.5040
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Electrochemistry, Energy Storage
Education: B.S. Physical Chemistry (1979) University of Belgrade, Ph.D. Chemistry (1984), Technical University of Dresden

Frank Rytkonen, P.E., Assistant Professor (2010) & REE Program Director (2011)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040
Email:Send Email
Direct:  503-821-1261
Expertise Area: Instrumentation and control systems
Education & Licenses: B.S.L. Physics and Mathematics (1998), Excelsior College; M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005), Portland State University; Registered Professional Electrical Engineer (2009), Oregon.

Feng Shi, Assistant Professor (2011)

Office:PV286
Tel:541.885.1257
Fax:541.885.1666
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Solar Energy
Education: B.S. Physics (1985), Northwest Normal University (China); M.S. Solar Engineering (1991), Yunnan Normal University (China); M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2002), University of Rochester; Ph.D. Physics (2008), University of Toledo

Chad Stillinger, PhD, Assistant Professor (2011)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1281
Fax:503.786.5040
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Instrumentation and Controls, Ocean Energy
Education: B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2000), George Fox University; Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011), Oregon State University

Claudia Torres Garibay, PhD, Assistant Professor (2009)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1248
Fax:503.786.5040
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Fuel Cells
Education: B.S. Electrical and Industrial Engineering (1996), Chihuahua Technological Institute; M.S. Materials Science (2000), Advanced Materials Research Center (CIMAV); Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (2007), University of Texas at Austin.

Mehmet Vurkaç, PhD, Assistant Professor (2010)

Office:PV280
Tel:541.885.1258
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Computational Intelligence
Education: B.A. Mathematics-Physics (1993), Whitman College; M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering (1999); Ph.D Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011), Portland State University

Xin Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor (2011)

Office:PV189
Tel:541.851.5271
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Dynamical Systems and Automatic Control
Education: B.S. Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering (2006) Taiyuan University of Technology; M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2008) Marquette University; Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011) Marquette University

James Zipay, Professor & REE Program Director (2007)

Office:PV292
Tel:541.885.1543
Fax:541.885.1666
Email:Send Email
Expertise Area: Energy Systems, RF and Wireless
Education: B.S. Biology, Cortland State (1975);  A.A.S. in Electronics Technology, Broome Community College (1983);  B.S.E.E., SUNY/University of New Mexico (1987); M.S.E.E. Device Physics and VLSI

Mateo Aboy, PhD, MBA, RPA, CLP, Associate Professor (2008)

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.533.5190
Email:Send Email
Web:http://www.mateoaboy.com/
Expertise Area: Signal Processing
Education & Licenses: B.S. Physics and Mathematics Minor (2002), B.S. Electrical Engineering (2002), M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004), Portland State University; Dipl. Ing. Telecommunications Engineering (2003), M.Phil. Telecommunications Engineering (2004), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (2005), ETSIT-University of Vigo; Exec. Cert. Technical Management & Leadership (2007), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; RPA. Registered Patent Agent (2009) United States Patent & Trademark Office; Prof. Cert. Sustainable Energy Conversion & Storage (2009), Stanford University; M.B.A. International Business (2011), University of London. Registered Professional Engineer, European Union (Spain COIT No. 12684).  Registered US Patent Agent (USPTO Bar Admission No. 64040). Certified Licensing Professional (CLP).