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 Li

Mechanical 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

Officer, Korean Student Association Graduate (KSAG)

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