Steven R. Shaw

Research Interests
System identification and controls, energy and fuel cell systems, instrumentation and measurement, analog circuits.

Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. January 1997 - January 2000
Dissertation titled "System Identification Techniques and Modeling for Nonintrusive Load Diagnostics."
E.E. January 1997 - January 2000
M.Eng. June 1995 - January 1997
S.B. EECS September 1991 - June 1995

Experience

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
  Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  Associate Professor with tenure, September 2006 - present
  Assistant Professor, July 2000 - September 2006
• Laboratory for Electronic and Electromagnetic Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  Postdoctoral Associate, February 2000 - July 2000
  Research Assistant, June 1996 - January 2000
• MIT EECS Department, Cambridge, MA
  Course development TA, Signals and Systems January 1996 - June 1996
  TA, Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory September 1995 - December 1995
• Laboratory for Electronic and Electromagnetic Systems at MIT, Cambridge, MA
  Undergraduate Research September 1992 - September 1995
• Bates Linear Accelerator (MIT/DOE), Middleton, MA
  Undergraduate Research June 1992 - September 1992

Awards

• IEEE Prize Paper Award, Energy and Power Development Committee, 2007.
• Vice President for Research Award for Meritorious Science/Technology, 2007.
• Recipient of an NSF CAREER award, 2006.
• Named electrical and computer engineering instructor of the year 2004-2005 by student vote.
• Elected to IEEE Senior Member, February 2005.
• Named electrical and computer engineering instructor of the year 2003-2004 by student vote.
• National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering award, 2003. The Frontiers of Engineering event brings together "a select group of emerging engineering leaders from industry, academe, and government labs..."
• Technology Review magazine TR100 award, 2002. The TR100 award is for the top one-hundred innovators under age thirty-five who "will create the future" according to Technology Review magazine. The TR100 is an international award open to many disciplines.
• Montana State University teaching and learning fellow, 2001.
• MIT Laboratory for Electronic and Electromagnetic Systems Grainger Foundation Award, 2001.
• MIT David Adler memorial prize for best thesis in Electrical Engineering.
• MIT Masterworks thesis prize.

Affiliations

• Senior Member IEEE, Member Sigma Xi. Sigma Xi chapter co-chair.

Consulting

• Mystic Tackleworks, Mystic, CT
  Consultant, September 2007 - present
  Circuit design for high-tech fishing lure.
• Voltaic, LLC, Santa Fe, NM and Great Falls, MT
  Consultant, August 2002 - May 2003
  Design and prototype of non-contact gambling machine monitoring system.
• Satcon, Cambridge, MA
  Consultant, January 1998 - July 1998
  Evaluated brush wear characteristics of a DC motor.

Funding

• National Science Foundation, grant 0547616, "CAREER: Fuel Cell Degradation Diagnostics and Control", August 1 2006 to July 31, 2011, $400,000.
• HiTEC, "Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Project," September 1, 2002 to August 31, 2008. $1,202,359.
• UTC/USAF, "High Power Density SOFC Project,", September 19, 2006 to September 18, 2007. $77,138.
• National Science Foundation, grant 0321358, "Development of a Step-Scan Fourier Transform Spectrometer With sub 1/2 HeNe Wavelength Step Size," August 1, 2003 to July 31, 2007, $339,000
• Department of Energy, "PEM Degradation Project," January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2006. $318,995.
• National Science Foundation, grant 0135229, "Modeling and Control of Multi-source Wind, Photovoltaic, and Fuel Cell Distributed Generation Systems," July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2006, $240,000.
• Fuel Cell Energy Corporation, "Fuel Cell Response Characterization, Monitoring, and Modeling," March 1, 2003 to April 31, 2006. $240,909.
• Architectural Energy Corporation, "Research Support for the High Information Content Load Monitoring Project," July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2003, $40,000.

Patents

• R. Brandon Inberg, S. R. Shaw, and L. H. Spangler, "Enhanced Step-mode FTIR position Control.", two provisionals filed, conversion pending, US.
• T. Zhu, S. R. Shaw and S. B. Leeb, "Transient Recognition Control for Hybrid Fuel Cell Systems.", provisional filed, conversion pending, US and international.
• S. R. Shaw, C. Yakymyshyn and S. B. Leeb. "Non-invasive Multicurrent Sensors," provisional filed, no conversion.
• S. B. Leeb, U. A. Kahn and S. R. Shaw, "Multiprocessing transient event detector for use in a nonintrusive electrical load monitoring system," US Patent 5,717,325.

Selected Journal Articles

• R. Brandon Inberg, S. R. Shaw, L. H. Spangler , "Enhanced Step-Mode FTIR Position Journal Control", submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments.
• S. R. Shaw, S. B. Leeb, and Les Norford "Nonintrusive Load Monitoring and Diagnostics in Power Systems," accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
• S. R. Shaw and C. R. Laughman. "A Kalman-filter Spectral Envelope Preprocessor," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 56, No. 5, October 2007, pp. 2010-2017.
• S. Pasricha, M. Keppler, S. R. Shaw, and M. H. Nehrir. "Comparison and Identification of Static Electrical Terminal Fuel Cell Models", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 22, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 746-754.
• S. R. Shaw and C. R. Laughman. "A Method for Nonlinear Least Squares with Structured Residuals", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 10, October 2006, pp 1704-1708.
• S. Pasricha and S. R. Shaw. "A Dynamic PEM Fuelcell Model", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol 21, Number 2, June 2006, pp. 484-490.
• T. Zhu, S. R. Shaw and S. B. Leeb, "Transient Recognition Control for Hybrid Fuel Cell Systems.", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol 21, No 1, March 2006, pp 195-201.
• M.H. Nehrir, C. Wang, and S.R. Shaw, "Fuel Cells: Promising Devices for Distributed Generation", IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, January/February 2006, pp 47-53.
• K. D. Lee, S. B. Leeb, L. K. Norford, P. R. Armstrong, J. Holloway, and S. R. Shaw, "Estimation of Variable-Speed-Drive Power Consumption from Harmonic Content", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2005.
• C. Wang, M.H. Nehrir, and S.R. Shaw, "Dynamic Models and Model Validation for PEM Fuel Cells using Electrical Circuits," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2005, PP 442-451. IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award
• S. R. Shaw, M. Keppler, and S. B. Leeb. "Pre-Estimation for Better Initial Guesses," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 53, no 3, June 2004, pp. 762-769.
• C. R. Laughman, D. Lee, R. Cox, S. R. Shaw, S. B. Leeb and L. Norford. "Advanced Nonintrusive Monitoring of Electric Loads," Invited paper. IEEE Computer Applications in Power, 2002.
• D. Luo, L. K. Norford, S. R. Shaw, and S. B. Leeb. "Monitoring HVAC Equipment Electrical Loads from a Centralized Location -Methods and Field Test Results," ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 108, Pt. 1, 2002.
• S. R. Shaw, D. Luo, L. K. Norford and S. B. Leeb. "Detection of HVAC Faults via Electrical Load Monitoring," International Journal of HVAC&R Research, 8(1):13-40, 2002.
• D. K. Jackson, S. B. Leeb and S. R. Shaw "Adaptive Control of an Inductive Power Transfer Coupling for Servomechanical Systems." IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 15, no. 6, November 2000.
• S. R. Shaw, C. R. Laughman, S. B. Leeb and R. F. Lepard "A Power Quality Prediction System.", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 47, no. 3, June 2000, pp. 511-17.
• S. R. Shaw and S. B. Leeb, "Identification of induction motor parameters from transient stator current measurements." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 46, no. 1, Feb. 1999, pp. 139-49.
• S. R. Shaw, C. B. Abler, R. F. Lepard, D. Luo, S. B. Leeb and L. K. Norford, "Instrumentation for high performance nonintrusive electrical load monitoring." Journal of Solar Energy Engineering -Transactions of the ASME, vol. 120, no. 3, Aug. 1998, pp. 224-9.
• D. K. Jackson, A. M. Schultz, S. B. Leeb, A. H. Mitwalli, G. C. Verghese and S. R. Shaw, "A multirate digital controller for a 1.5-kW electric vehicle battery charger." IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 12, no. 6, Nov. 1997, pp. 1000-6.
• S. B. Leeb, A. Ortiz, R. F. Lepard, S. R. Shaw and J. L. Kirtley Jr., "Applications of real-time median filtering with fast digital and analog sorters." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 2, no. 2, June 1997, pp. 136-43.
• S. B. Leeb, S. R. Shaw, J. L. Kirtley Jr., "Transient event detection in spectral envelope estimates for nonintrusive load monitoring.", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 10, no. 3, July 1995, pp. 1200-10.

Selected Conference Articles

• B. Inberg, C. Fahlstrom, L. Dobeck, L. H. Spangler, and S. R. Shaw, " Enhanced Step-Mode FTIR Position Control," in Fourier Transform Spectroscopy/ Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2007), paper FWA6.
• Leeb, S. B., M. Alvira, R. W. Cox, J. J. Cooley, J. L. Kirtley, Jr., S. R. Shaw "Build to Win: A Hands-On Approach to Undergraduate Instruction in Power Electronics,", IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Power Electronics Education Workshop, Orlando, FL, June 2007.
• Leeb, S. B., J. L. Kirtley, E. Tung, W. Wichakool, R. Bavetta, S. R. Shaw, R. W. Cox, "Motor Designs for Instruction in Drives,", IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Power Electronics Education Workshop, Orlando, FL, June 2007.
• Robert Cox, S. B. Leeb, S. R. Shaw and L. K. Norford, "Transient Event Detection for Nonintrusive Load Monitoring and Demand Side Management Using Voltage Distortion", IEEE APEC ’06, pp 1751–1757.
• C. Wang, M.H. Nehrir, and S.R. Shaw, "Dynamic Models and Model Validation for PEM Fuel Cells Using Electrical Circuits," presented at the 2005 IEEE PES General Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 12-16, 2005.
• J. A. Smith, M. H. Nehrir, V. Gerez and S. R. Shaw "A Broad Look at the Workings, Types, and Applications of Fuel Cells," IEEE PES Summer meeting, 2002.
• S. R. Shaw, D. J. Evangelista, S. B. Leeb and C. R. Laughman "Nonintrusive Load Monitoring and Identification in an Automotive Environment." 6th Annual ElectrIMACS Conference, Sept 14-16 1999, Lisbon, Portugal.
• S. B. Leeb, D. K. Jackson and S. R. Shaw, "Adaptive Control of an Inductive Power Transfer Coupling for Servomechanical Systems." 30th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 1999, Charleston, South Carolina.
• S. R. Shaw, D.K. Jackson, T. A. Denison and S. B. Leeb, "Computer-aided design and application of sinusoidal switching patterns." Record of the IEEE Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics, July 1998, pp. 185-191.
• S. B. Leeb, B.C. Lesieutre, and S.R. Shaw, "Determination of Load Composition Using Spectral Envelope Estimates," 27th Annual North American Power Symposium, Bozeman, Montana, pp. 618–627, October 1995.
• S. B. Leeb and S. R. Shaw, "Harmonic estimates for transient event detection." Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Sept. 1994, Galway, Ireland.

Invited Talks

• S. R. Shaw "Fuel Cells, Transients, and controls", HITEC Seminar Series, Bozeman, MT. December 7, 2005.
• S. R. Shaw, "Transient Recognition Control for Fuel Cell Systems", SECA CTP Peer Review Meeting, October, 25, 2005.
• S. R. Shaw, "Fuel Cell Research Overview", College of Engineering Advisory Board Meeting, April 24, 2005.
• S. R. Shaw, "Instrumentation for PEM Fuel Cell Degradation Monitoring", invited paper, IEEE PES Summer meeting, Denver, CO, 2004.

Software

• S. R. Shaw, pci1710.c. Gnu Public License, 2002.
  Linux 2.2 kernel device driver for Advantech PCI-1710 data acquisition card.
• S. R. Shaw, msuprep.c. MIT version of Gnu Public License, 2002.
  Kalman-filter based spectral envelope preprocessor hand-optimized for AMD Athlon FPU.
• M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, fdjac.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
  Finite difference Jacobian evaluation.
• M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, lmsvd.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
  Implementation of the Moré/Levenburg-Marquardt code with regularization using the singular value decomposition.
• M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, lsvd.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
  Computes the Levenburg-Marquardt parameter given the SVD of the Jacobian.
• M. Keppler and S. R. Shaw, gn.m. Gnu Public License, 2001.
  Implementation of the Gauss-Newton method using the singular value decomposition.

Graduate Students Supervised
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

• Xuelei Hu, Ph. D. program, September 2006 - present
  Degradation oriented controls for SOFC systems.
• Pete Lindahl, M.S. program, September 2006 - present
  UTC/USAF High performance SOFC systems
• Chris Stephani, M.S. program, September 2006 - Summer 2007
  CAREER multidisciplinary controls demonstrations.
• Tao Zhu, Ph.D. program, August 2002 - August 2006
  Transient recognition with application to steady-state load prediction for next-generation fuel cell and multi-source control systems.
• Sandip Pasricha, M.S. program, September 2003 - May 2006
  PEM degradation monitoring and modeling.
• John Lackey, M. S. program, January 2004 - May 2006
  Instrumentation development for next generation hybrid fuel cell monitoring systems.
• Connie Nelson, M.S. program, January 2005 - May 2005
  Modular power electronics test system.
• Brandon Inberg, M. S. program, August 2002 - August 2005
  DSP-based controls for FTIR spectroscopy.
• Marc Keppler, M.S. program, September 2000 - May 2003
  Time-continuation methods for identification of dynamic systems. Instrumentation, model validation, and identification for fuel cell modeling.

Theses Jointly Supervised
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

• Christopher Laughman, "Parameter Identification and Modelling for the Prediction of Voltage Distortion," M. Eng., 2000.
• Christopher Laughman, "A Method for Predicting Power Quality," S. B., 1999.
• Christopher Salthouse, "Interface Improvements for the Nonintrusive Load Monitor", S.B., 1999.
• Dennis Evangelista, "Parameter Estimation of Induction Motors using PWM Inverters", M. Eng., 1999.
• Craig Abler, "Spectral Envelope Estimation for Transient Event Detection," M.Eng., 1998.
• Anuj Mohan, "An Impedance Characterization System for the Electric Utility" S.B., 1998.
• Jonathan Hunt, "Xnyquist, a program for Nyquist plotting in X-Windows", S.B., 1997.

Undergraduate Research Students
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

• Kristin Sommers. Controls for micro-mirror positioning.
• Scott Dent. Pressure control of parallel fuel cell current sharing.
• Eric Moog. SOFC gas mixing and degradation testing.
• Dominic Lombardozzi. PEM fluorescence spectroscopy teststand development.
• Sarah Ray. Solid oxide fuelcell teststand.
• Nels Peterson. Automated solid-oxide fuel cell measurement system.
• Austin Beard. Instrumentation for fuel cell monitoring.
• Lief Summerfield. Instrumentation for fuel cell characterization.
• Terry Moltzan. Power electronics for fuel cell systems integration.
• Carl Graving. Computer support, linux distribution development.
• Aimee Whitmore. Literature search, research administrative support.
• Don Buchholz. Load center construction, instrumentation for nonintrusive monitoring, lecture demo construction.

Senior Design Projects Supervised
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

• "A High-Voltage Sawtooth Generator for Langmuir Probe" Brian Weniger, Conrad Jackson, Mackenzie Wilz, Fall 2007
• "A Flexible Hardware Platform for Embedded Signal Conditioning and Control" Patrick Collins, Pradip Ghimire, Calvin Coopmans, Fall 2002
• "Nonlinear Control Systems Demonstration" Scott Warnick, Alana Amunrud, Fall 2002
• "Tektronix Scope Probe Project", Antony Veches, Robert Stefani, and Corey Kopp. Interdisciplinary senior design project, Spring 2001

Classes Taught
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

• EE321 "Control Systems", Spring 2007
• EE321 "Control Systems", Spring 2006
• EE525 "Sequential State Estimation", Fall 2005 §
• EE321 "Control Systems", Spring 2005
• EE526 "Kalman Filtering", Fall 2004 §
• EE321 "Control Systems", Spring 2004
• EE521 "Nonlinear System Dynamics", Fall 2003 §
• EE321 "Control Systems", Spring 2003
• EE308 "Signals and Systems", Fall 2002
• EE321 "Control Systems", Spring 2002
• EE308 "Signals and Systems", Fall 2001 §
• EE216 "Introduction to Electronics", Fall 2001
• EE321 "Control Systems", Spring 2001 §
• EE490 "Build an Induction Coil Accelerator", Spring 2001 §
• EE216 "Introduction to Electronics", Fall 2000
  
  § indicates development of a new class or significant modification of an existing class including the development of new materials and lectures.

Committees
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

• ATAC learning management system committee, Fall 2006 - present
• ECE Strategic planning committee, Fall 2006 - present
• ECE Graduate Committee, Fall 2004 - present
• President's Academic Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC), Spring 2006 - Spring 2007
• COE Strategic Planning and Initiatives Committee, Fall 2002 - Spring 2007
• MSU Undergraduate Studies Committee, Spring 2001 - Spring 2006
• MSU Presidential Scholarship Selection Committee, Spring 2004
• ECE Department Curriculum Committee, Spring 2001 - Spring 2003
• MSU Verbal Core Committee, Spring 2001

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