Giorgio Rizzoni
Giorgio Rizzoni received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Michigan. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University, where he teaches undergraduate courses in system dynamics, measurements and mechatronics, and graduate courses in automotive powertrain modeling and control, hybrid vehicle modeling and control, system fault diagnosis, and digital signal processing.
Dr. Rizzoni has been involved in the development of innovative curricula and educational programs throughout his career. At the University of Michigan, where he first taught as a Lecturer, he developed a new laboratory and revamped the curriculum for the circuits and electronics engineering service course for non-electrical engineering majors. The first edition of this book was a direct result of that effort. At Ohio State, he has been involved – in collaboration with electrical and mechanical engineering colleagues – in the development of a Mechatronic Systems undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Funding for this program was provided, in part, by the National Science Foundation through a curriculum development grant. The second and third editions of this book have been profoundly influenced by the interdisciplinary curriculum development.
Dr. Rizzoni and his colleagues have also developed and implemented a unique year-long graduate course sequence titled Powertrain Modeling and Control in collaboration with General Motors. The course sequence is offered to GM employees as a series of distance-learning courses, and is regularly taught on campus to Ohio State electrical and mechanical engineering graduate students.
Most recently, Dr. Rizzoni has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a Graduate Automotive Technology Education Center on Hybrid Vehicle Drivetrains and Control Systems. This activity has resulted in the development of a graduate curriculum and of research laboratories devoted to the study of future vehicle propulsion technologies.
Dr. Rizzoni’s research, in collaboration with the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research, concerns the modeling, simulation, control and diagnosis of automotive powertrains and hybrid vehicles. His work has been funded by a number of government agencies and corporation, including, among others: DOE, NASA, NSF, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Delphi Automotive Systems, Cummins, IBM, Motorola, Allied Signal. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has received a number of recognitions, including a 1991 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Rizzoni is a member of ASME, IEEE and SAE, and has been an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control (1993-98) and of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (1988-1998). He has 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, and is a past Chair of the Transportation Panel of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division.
He is the Ohio State University SAE student branch faculty advisor, and has led teams of electrical and mechanical engineering students through the development of a high-performance electric vehicle, culminating in three consecutive national championships (1996-98). He is also an advisor of the OSU FutureCar Challenge hybrid-electric vehicle design team. OSU is one of 14 schools to have been awarded this prestigious project, sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler through the United States Council for Automotive Research.
2007