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Degrees:

Ph.D. 1985, Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University
M.S. 1977, Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S. 1974, Electrical Engineering with Honors, Tulane University

Years of Service:

24 years of service at KSU

Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, KSU (1991-present)

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, KSU (1985-1991)

Related Experience:

Courses Taught in the last Five years:

Taught 10 different courses since 2004.  Recent courses include:

ME 512 Dynamics

ME 535 Meas. and Instrumentation Lab

ME 570 Control of Mechanical Systems I  

ME 640 Control of Mechanical Systems II

ME 716 Intermediate Dynamics

ME 730 Control Sys. Analysis & Design

ME 830 Special Topics in Introduction to Nonlinear Control     

ME 830 Special Topics in Nonlinear Control I

ME 830 Special Topics in Optimal Control            

ME 930 Nonlinear Control II

Industrial Experience:

Advanced Development Engineer, General Electric Co., Pittsfield, MA (1975-1978)

Advanced Development Engineer, General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (1974-1975)

Consulting and Patents:

General Electric Co. (1978-1982)

Robotics Lab, Tulane University (1985)

States in Which Registered: none

Principal Publications in Last Five Years:

    Journal Articles:

• Heat Loss from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants: Part I – Methods and Scope, Warren N. White, Anil Pahwa, and Chris Cruz, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 110 (2) pp. 842 – 851, 2004.

• Heat Loss from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants: Part II – Results and Comparisons, Warren N. White, Anil Pahwa, and Chris Cruz, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 110 (2) pp. 852 – 870, 2004.

• Building Heat Load Contributions from Medium and Low Voltage Switchgear, Part I: Solid Rectangular Bus Bar Heat Losses, Warren N. White and Emilio Piesciorovsky, ASHRAE Transactions, to appear.

• Building Heat Load Contributions from Medium and Low Voltage Switchgear, Part II, Component and Overall Switchgear Heat Gains, Warren N. White and Emilio Piesciorovsky, ASHRAE Transactions, to appear.

• Heat Gain from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants, Part II (RP-1395), Warren N. White and Emilio Piesciorovsky, accepted for the ASHRAE Transactions, under re-review.

• Heat Gain from Adjustable Speed (Variable Frequency) Drives – (RP – 1395), Emilio Piesciorovsky and Warren N. White, accepted for the ASHRAE Transactions, under re-review.

• The AC Resistance of Solid Rectangular, Non-magnetic Bus Bars, Warren N. White, , in preparation.

• Stabilization of a Class of Underactuated Mechanical Systems through a Lyapunov Direct Method, W. N. White, M. Foss, J. Patenaude, D. Garcia, and X. Guo, in preparation.

• Heat Loss from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants: Part I – Methods and Scope, Warren N. White, Anil Pahwa, and Chris Cruz, presented at the ASHRAE Summer Meeting, Nashville, TN, 2003.
• Heat Loss from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants: Part II – Results and Comparisons, Warren N. White, Anil Pahwa, and Chris Cruz, presented at the ASHRAE Summer Meeting, Nashville, TN, 2003.

• A Direct Lyapunov Approach for a Class of Underactuated Mechanical Systems, W. N. White, M. Foss, and X. Guo, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, pp. 103 – 110, June 14 – 16, 2006.

• A Direct Lyapunov Approach for Stabilization of Underactuated Mechanical Systems, W. N. White, M. Foss, and X. Guo, Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, July 11-13, 2007.

• Improvements in Direct Lyapunov Stabilization of Underactuated, Mechanical Systems, W. N. White, M. Foss, J. Patenaude, D. Garcia, and X. Guo, Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 11 – 13, pp. 2927 – 2932.

• Direct Lyapunov Method for Tracking Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems, W. N. White, J. Patenaude, M. Foss, and D. Garcia, presented at the 2009 American Control Conference.

• Building Heat Load Contributions from Medium and Low Voltage Switchgear, Part I: Solid Rectangular Bus Bar Heat Losses, Warren N. White and Emilio Piesciorovsky, presented at the 2009 ASHRAE Summer Meeting, Louisville, KY, June 20 - 24.

• Building Heat Load Contributions from Medium and Low Voltage Switchgear, Part II, Component and Overall Switchgear Heat Gains, Warren N. White and Emilio Piesciorovsky, presented at the 2009 ASHRAE Summer Meeting, Louisville, KY, June 20 - 24.

• Heat Gain from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants, Part II (RP-1395), Warren N. White and Emilio Piesciorovsky, accepted for presentation at the 2010 ASHRAE Winter Meeting in Orlando, Florida, under re-review.

• Heat Gain from Adjustable Speed (Variable Frequency) Drives – (RP – 1395), Emilio Piesciorovsky and Warren N. White, accepted for presentation at the 2010 ASHRAE Winter Meeting in Orlando, Florida, under re-review.

• Redesign of an Undergraduate Controls Laboratory with an Eye Toward Accommodating Future Upgrades, Jacob Wieneke, Dale Schinstock, Warren N. White, and Guoqiang Hu, 2010 American Control Conference, under review, June, 2010.

    Grants and Contracts:

• ASHRAE Grant in Aid for Brandon Frink – Active  Control of HVAC Systems, by W.N. White, M. Hosni, B.T. Beck, and S. Eckels, $10,000.  Spring 2005.

• Collaborative Research: Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems through Lyapunov Direct Methods, by W.N. White and M. Foss, National Science Foundation, August 1, 2006 – July 31, 2010, $210,000.

• Heat Gains from Electrical and Control Equipment in Industrial Plants, Part 2, by W.N. White, ASHRAE, April 3, 2005 – February 28, 2010, $192,000.

• Survey and Assessment of Different High-Performance and Low-Cost Control Strategies for Wind Turbines, W. N. White and Roger Hu, K-State Engineering Power Affiliates Program, October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2009, $11,801.

• High-Performance and Low-Cost Control Strategies for Wind Turbines, W. N. White and Roger Hu, K-State Engineering Power Affiliates Program, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2010, $23,506.

Memberships:

Tau Beta Pi, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Honors and Awards:

Boeing Welliver Summer Faculty Fellowship (2002)

Institutional and Professional Service in Last Five Years:

University: Counselor - KSU Merit Conference - Drafting Merit Badge (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

College: (1) College of Engineering Scholarship Committee, (2) Open House Judge, (3) Department Representative to the KSU Electric Power Affiliates Program Board, (4) College Committee on Planning.

Department: (1) Laboratory Committee, (2) Honors and Awards Committee, (3) Faculty Search Committee.

Professional: (1) Session Chair American Control Conference (2006, 2008), (2) Paper reviewer American Control Conference (2006, 2007, 2008), (3) Reviewer for Institution of Engineering and Technology Control Theory & Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and Automatica.

Professional Development in Last Five Years:

ASME Seminar – Effective Teaching (2007)

Other Notable Achievements in Last Five Years:

Remodeling and upgrading of the Measurement and Instrumentation Laboratory (2007)

Remodeling and upgrading of the Control of Mechanical Systems Laboratory (2009)