The Team

Faculty Mentor
Education
 * Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 1973, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
 * MS. Electrical Engineering, 1969, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
 * MA. Mathematics, 1967, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
 * BA. Mathematics, 1965, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

Academic Experience
 * Fourteen years of part-time teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Broad background in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, including stochastic processes, image processing, and estimation theory. Published a book in this area entitled Stochastic Processes and Estimation Theory with Application, John Wiley, November 1979. This book was used as a graduate text in several universities, including the University of Washington and USC.

Student Mentor
Kyle grew up in Boise, Idaho and graduated from Boise High School in 2009. He has always had a strong interest in science, math and computers, which later matured into a passion for programming and digital systems engineering. Kyle loves working with FPGAs and microcontrollers and designing complex systems. After graduate school, Kyle plans on implementing embedded control systems with sensor networks. He intends to start his own business in embedded system contracting after working in the industry for a few years. Kyle has always been interested in learning more about himself and the world in which he lives, in an effort to grow as an individual and make the world a better place.

Project Members


Jacob Grinestaff

Jacob is a Senior in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho and will be graduating in May 2014. He is specializing in Microelectronics and will be working at Micron in the DRAM R&D Product Engineering group. He loves being outdoors and has participated in Intramural Frisbee, Soccer, Flag Football, Basketball, and Floor Hockey while at the U of I. His LinkedIn Profile is available here.



Mitch Bodmer

Mitch is a senior computer engineering student at the University of Idaho. He has experience in microcontroller programming and embedded system design as well as digital and analog circuit design. Mitch has also designed and built avionics for 2 pico-satelites at NASA Ames Research Center. In his spare time Mitch enjoys playing music, cooking, and side projects in electronics.



Francis Szeibert

Francis ('Frank') is a senior in Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho, and has specialized in controls and analog IC design. He has interned at Micron in the past where he worked in the fab designing and implementing ground-breaking process technologies for DRAM and flash memory. Frank enjoys school, running, and 'Sauced' (a local fry shop in Moscow).

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