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L-Rod is partial credit generous and is a solid choice for a professor. He will give you what you deserve. You must participate in class and turn in your homework. You will pass with a easy B.
Milwaukee School of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Luis
Rodriguez
Greater Milwaukee Area
Dr. Luis A. Rodriguez is currently an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He completed his doctoral training at the University of California-Irvine where he was a National Science Foundation Bridge to the Doctorate Fellow. His dissertation work involved the development, implementation, and validation of an efficient trajectory planning algorithm that can be used to build more agile and energy efficient machines. He completed his Masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was a GEM fellow and Graduate Engineering Research Scholar. He also holds a Bachelor degree from University of California San Diego. His interests include robot control, design of mechatronics systems, motion planning and optimal control.
Undergraduate Senior Design Progect
Worked in the design and fabrication of the 2001 FSAE Car chassis and suspension. Duties included aiding in the design, fabrication and analysis of various chassis and suspension components.
Undergraduate Research
Worked on a biomedical research project entitled "Mechanical Analysis of Laryngoscopy"- Duties included the design and fabrication of specialized instrumentation, development of experimental fixtures and data analysis. Selected to present results at the SACNAS national conference.
Assistant Professor
Luis worked at Milwaukee School of Engineering as a Assistant Professor
Research Assistant
PhD Dissertation, "Adaptive Discretization and Sequential Linear Quadratic Strategies in Optimal Control", Developed, implemented and validated a general Runge-Kutta based optimal control solver that uses efficient Riccati-based solutions.
Teaching Assistant
Dynamics (Engr MAE 80) Winter 2007, 08, 10
Introduction to Control Systems (EngrMAE 170) Fall 2006, 07, 09
Research Assistant
Master thesis entitled, "The Sound of Slip". Project consisted in the design and development of an acoustic slip sensor for the detection of incipient slip for robotic applications.
M.S
Mechanical Engineering
THESIS : "The Sound of Slip"
ADVISOR : Dr. Nicola Ferrier
Ph.D
Mechanical Engineering
DISSERTATION : "Adaptive Discretization and Sequential Linear Quadratic
Strategies in Optimal Control"
ADVISOR : Dr. Athanasios Sideris
B.S
Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate Senior Design Progect
Worked in the design and fabrication of the 2001 FSAE Car chassis and suspension. Duties included aiding in the design, fabrication and analysis of various chassis and suspension components.
Undergraduate Research
Worked on a biomedical research project entitled "Mechanical Analysis of Laryngoscopy"- Duties included the design and fabrication of specialized instrumentation, development of experimental fixtures and data analysis. Selected to present results at the SACNAS national conference.