EDUCATION:

Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, October 1997 , GPA: 4.90/5.00
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Dissertation: "Precision Motion Control of Electrohydraulic Actuators"

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, August 1993, GPA: 4.40/5.00
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Dissertation: "An Improved Linear Model of Electrohydraulic Servo Actuators and its Use for Robust Performance Control System Design"

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, May 1989, GPA: 3.40/4.00
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor: August 1997 - present
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Responsibilities include teaching courses in dynamics, controls, and instrumentation, supervising senior projects, and conducting research with graduate students.

Research Assistant: August 1989 - August 1997
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Research involved precision motion control of hydraulic actuators, with specific manufacturing application of non-circular turning. Responsibilities included hardware design and organization, model development, controller synthesis and implementation, and DSP programming.

Research Assistant: May 1995 - May 1997
Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Laboratory, Dearborn, MI

Research involved development of dynamic model for hydraulic camless valvetrain, validating model with experimental data, and utilizing model for design improvements. Responsibilities included supervision of three undergraduate students.

Mechanical Engineer: September 1987 - January 1988, May 1988 - August 1988
General Motors Corporation, Rochester Products Division, Rochester, NY
Engineering Co-operative Program of Cornell University

Responsibilities focused on mechanical design of fuel injector systems.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Teaching Fellow, University of Illinois Alumni Association: August 1994 - May 1995
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Served as primary instructor for undergraduate dynamics and vibrations course, Spring 1995. Responsibilities included lecture preparation, homework assignment, exam administration, and laboratory management.

Teaching Assistant: August 1989 - May 1994 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Coordinated and taught laboratory sessions for dynamics, vibrations, and instrumentation courses. Supervised revamping of dynamics laboratory curriculum, Fall 1993.

RELATED SKILLS:

PC, Mac, and UNIX operating systems, C computer language, digital and analog electronics,

MATLAB, Mathematica, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES:

University of Illinois Alumni Association Teaching Fellowship, August 1994 - May 1995
Awarded by engineering faculty to doctoral student who had demonstrated exceptional potential to be university professor. Provided opportunity to lecture and supervise undergraduate course.

Harriet and Charles Luckman Undergraduate Teaching Award (nominee), January 1996 Sole nominee of Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering for university-wide award.

List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students
Spring 1990, Fall 1990, Spring 1991, Fall 1991, Spring 1992, Fall 1992, Spring 1993, Spring 1994, Spring 1995

Tau Beta Pi, November 1989

Pi Tau Sigma, April 1988

PUBLICATIONS:

Dean Kim, Shawn Moulton, and Tsu-Chin Tsao, "A Modified Tustin Transformation for Improved Controller Performance with Application to the Electrohydraulic Actuator," submitted for 1999 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Nashville, TN, November 1999.

Dean Kim and Tsu-Chin Tsao, "Identification and Control of Electrohydraulic Actuators Modeled as Linear Periodic Systems," presented at 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 1998.

Dean Kim and Tsu-Chin Tsao, "Robust Performance Control of Electrohydraulic Actuators for Camshaft Machining," presented at 1998 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Dallas, TX, November 1997.

Dean Kim and Tsu-Chin Tsao, "An Improved Linear Model of Electrohydraulic Servovalves and its Use for Robust Performance Control System Design," presented at 1997 American Control Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 1997.

Dean Kim, Mark Anderson, Tsu-Chin Tsao, and Mike Levin, "Dynamic Model of a Springless Electrohydraulic Valvetrain," presented at SAE International Conference and Exposition, Detroit, MI, February 1997.

Dean Kim, Edward Emaci, and Alexander Vakakis, "Impurity Modes in Disorder Nonlinear Lattices," accepted for publication in International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics.

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