AREAS FOR THESIS DEVELOPMENT WITH DR. GRACIANO DIECK ASSAD

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AREAS FOR THESIS DEVELOPMENT WITH DR. GRACIANO
DIECK ASSAD

• INSTRUMENTATION AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
• DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
• PROCESS INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS

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Thesis supervision, spring 1999

• 1999 Meléndez, Fernando, Modeling a VU-60
  Industrial Boiler to verify robustnez and
  stability of the Drum Level Control System,
  Graduated June 1999.
• 1999 Arriaga, Enrique, Modeling and
  simulation of a medium scale boiler model to test
  drum level stability over large ramp load
  trajectories, Graduated June 1999.
• 1999 Ramírez, Jaime, Fill up Level
  Measurement of a ball mill using a DSP based
  sensor, Graduated December 1999.

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Thesis supervision, fall 2000 and spring 2001

• 2001 Tovías, Enrique, Assessment of the
  simulation, analysis and optimization of a
  typical co-generation plant for a regional
  project pending.
• 2001 Pineda, Alejandro, Using a
  TMS320C32 floating point DSP to implement an
  active nose control system, to be Graduated
  Pending.
• 2001 González, R. Prototipo para
  medición de temperatura por medio de RTD basado
  en el lazo deAnderson. Enero del 2001
• 2000 Martínez, R. Desarrollo e
  implementación de un prototipo biomédico para la
  determinación de urea, aplicado al tratamiento de
  hemodiálisis, Diciembre del 2000.

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PUBLICATIONS OR PRESENTATIONS

• 2000 Arriaga E., G. Dieck Assad, A. Hernández,
  A. Favela, Simulation of a Fuzzy Supervisory
  Controller for an Industrial Boiler using
  Simulink, presented in the ITESM Research and
  development congress 2000, Monterrey, January
  2001
• 2000 Ramírez, J., Soto R. and Dieck G., A
  Fuzzy Logic based AGC algorithm for a radio
  communication system, to be presented and
  published at the FUZZ-IEEE 2000, San Antonio,
  Texas, May 2000.
• 1999 Favela A., Dieck Assad, G. "Using A Fuzzy
  Set Point Generator to Improve the Dynamic
  Performance of the Instrumentation of a
  Temperature Process, Presented for possible
  publication on the IEEE Transactions on
  Instrumentation and Measurement, in 1999.
• 1999 Favela A., Dieck Assad, G. A Fuzzy Set
  Point State Feedback Controller for A Temperature
  Process, 1999 NAFIPS Conference, New York City,
  June 1999.

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Other Presentations

• 1999 Dieck G., Aguilar A., Malacón S. and
  Macías M., Redesign Of An Undergraduate Analog
  Integrated Circuit Course, 1999 ASEE Annual
  Conference Engineering Education To Serve The
  World, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-23,
  1999.
• 1998 Pérez B., Du-Solier W., Dieck-Assad
  Graciano, Automation of a Fish Farm Using a
  Microcontroller, 1998 IEEE CIIIEE 2nd.
  International Congress on Research in Electrical
  and Electronics Engineering, Instituto
  Tecnológico de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes,
  México, September 1998.
• 1998 Martínez F., Martínez S.O., Aguirre C.,
  Dieck G., Surface Laplacian Mapping of Brain
  Evoked Potentials Data Gathering and Processing
  using a DSP system and MATLAB, Proposed for
  possible presentation at the 1998 Signal and
  Image Processing International Conference,
  IASTED-IEEE Las Vegas Nevada, October 28-31,
  1998.

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Future Publications

• Hernándezs Thesis on Coriolis mass flow meter
  device
• Flotes Thesis on Active Noise Control Systems
• Meléndezs Thesis on Industrial Boiler Modeling
  using MATLAB-SIMULINK
• Ramírez Thesis on A DSP based sensor for the
  cement industry
• R. González Thesis on The Andrson Loop
  Prototype
• E. Arriagas Thesis on Boiler Modeling for Fuzzy
  supervisory control system schemes.

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Proposed Projects

• Continuing work on active noise control system
• DSP Industry applications
• FPGASignal Processing using Sigma-Delta
  Modulation
• Using a 32 Bit floating point DSP system to
  implement adaptive filtering and to compare
  Delta-Sigma Modulation Schemes.
• Uncertainty analysis in calibration of
  instrumentation systems
• Using Andersons Loop based Instruments form
  extremely precise multipoint data acquisition
  systems.
• Biomedical instrumentation Using non-invasive
  schemes to monitor urea and glucose in blood
  stream.
• Remote monitoring of greenhouse environment using
  the network.