Sukhwan Choi
EDUCATION
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York May 2000
Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering
Brown University, Rhode Island   May 1996
M.S. in Electrical Science
Semiconductor Laser
Hanyang University, Korea February 1995
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Hanyang Scholarship Recipient
HONORS
Hanyang University, Korea February 1995
An honor prize for a distinguished student
NAFSA Association of International Educators October 1998
KSAAP grant ($3,000)
RESEARCH& EXPERIENCE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York June 1997 - May 2000
Research Assistant under Professor C. James LiMechanical Diagnosis and Prognosis
Detection and localization of faults in a mechanical system
Gear Box Condition Monitoring and Prognosis
The Application of Signal Processing on Mechanical System
Neural Network Computing for Fault Diagnosis
Generating and Analyzing the cracked gear tooth in
FEM
with P3/PATRAN, ABAQUS and a software for the Fracture Mechanics
Programming the algorithm in FORTRAN
for the simulation of gear box vibration based on the fracture mechanics
Programming the embedded feedforward Neural Networks
in MALAB to represent unknown nonlinearities for the experimental results
Installed sensor based gear box test rig and
experimented
Teaching Assistant - Automatic Control Systems August 1997 - May 1999
Assisted in the instructional activities associated with
undergraduate program
through grading, problem sessions and laboratory instruction
COMPUTER SKILLS
UNIX and LINUX system
IBM PC and Microsoft Windows
LAB VIEW, and MATLAB
FEM : P3/PATRAN, and ABAQUS
FORTRAN, HTML and C++
ACTIVITIES