About the Author| Giorgio Rizzoni, The Ford Motor Company Chair of ElectroMechanical Systems,
received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from
the University of Michigan. He is currently a professor of mechanical and
electrical engineering at The Ohio State University, where he teaches undergraduate
courses in system dynamics, measurements, and mechatronics and graduate
courses in automotive power train modeling and control, hybrid vehicle modeling
and control, and system fault diagnosis.
Dr. Rizzoni has been involved in the development of innovative curricula
and educational programs throughout his career. At the University of Michigan, he
developed a new laboratory and curriculum for the circuits and electronics engineering
service course for non–electrical engineering majors. At Ohio State, he has been
involved in the development of undergraduate and graduate curricula in mechatronic
systems with funding provided, in part, by the National Science Foundation through
an interdisciplinary curriculum development grant. The present book has been profoundly
influenced by this curriculum development.
Professor Rizzoni has contributed to the development of a graduate curriculum
in these areas, served as the director of U.S. Department of Energy Graduate
Automotive Technology Education Center for Hybrid Drivetrains and Control
Systems, and is currently serving as Director of the new U.S. Department of
Energy Graduate Automotive Technology Education Center for Advanced Propulsion
Systems. He has developed various new courses in systems dynamics, mechatronics,
fault diagnosis, powertrain dynamics and hybrid-electric vehicles.
Since 1999, Dr. Rizzoni has served as director of the Ohio State University
Center for Automotive Research, an interdisciplinary research center serving the U.S.
government and the automotive industry worldwide. The center conducts research in
areas related to vehicle safety, energy efficiency, environmental impact, and passenger
comfort. Dr. Rizzoni has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals
and conference proceedings, and he has received a number of recognitions, including
a 1991 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Rizzoni is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of SAE, and a member of ASME
and ASEE; he has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic
Systems, Measurements, and Control (1993 to 1998) and of the IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology (1988 to 1998). He has also served as Guest Editor of Special
Issues of the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, of the IEEE Control
Systems Magazine, and of Control Engineering Practice; Dr. Rizzoni is a past Chair
of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, and has served as Chair of
the Technical Committee on Automotive Control for the International Federation of
Automatic Control (IFAC).
Giorgio Rizzoni is the Ohio State University SAE student branch faculty adviser,
and has led teams of electrical and mechanical engineering students through the
development of an electric vehicle that established various land speed records in
2003 and 2004. He has more recently led a team of students to the development of a
hydrogen fuel cell electric land speed record vehicle, the Buckeye Bullet 2 (see cover
and inside coverpage). He is also coadviser of the Ohio State University Future Truck
and Challenge-X hybrid-electric vehicle competition teams sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Energy, and by General Motors and Ford.http://car.osu.edu |
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