PAUL WRIGHT: The A. Martin Berlin Professor of Mechanical Engineering

A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

University of Birmingham , England                    Industrial Metallurgy                B.Sc. 1968

University of Birmingham , England                    Industrial Metallurgy                Ph.D. 1971

 

B. APPOINTMENTS

a) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley CA 94720 , (1991-)

            Chief Scientist: Center for Information Technology in the Interests of Society

               http://www.citris-uc.org/

            Co-Director: Berkeley Manufacturing Institute

               http://bmi.berkeley.edu/

            Co-Director: Berkeley Wireless Research Center

               http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/

b) Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Robotics and Manufacturing Research Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York Univ. (1987-1991).

c) Professor of Mechanical Engineering and The Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, (1979-1987).

d) Res. Associate in Physics, Cavendish Lab., University of Cambridge , England (1978).

e) Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Mech. Eng. , the Univ. of Auckland , New Zealand , (1975-1978)

f) Consulting Engineer, Dept. of Sci. and Ind. Res., Auckland , New Zealand , (1972-1975)

 

C. PUBLICATIONS (for full list of pulications see link)

1.            E. Leland and P.K. Wright, “Resonance Tuning of Piezoelectric Vibration energy Scavenging Generators using Compressive Axial Preload,” Smart Materials and Structures, Volume 15, 2006, pp. 1-8.

2.            N. Ota and P.K. Wright, “Trends in Wireless Sensor Networks for Manufacturing,” International Journal of Manufacturing Research (IJMR, Volume 1, 2006, pp. 3-13.

3.            M.H. Schneider, J.W. Evans, P.K.Wright and D. Ziegler, “Designing a thermoelectrically powered wireless sensor network for monitoring aluminum smelters,” Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers , Part E: Process Mechanical Engineering, Volume 220, 2006, JPME67, pp. 181-190.

4.            S. Roundy, and P.K. Wright, “A Piezoelectric Vibration based Generator for Wireless Electronics,” Smart Materials and Structures, Volume 13, 2004, pp. 1131-1142.

5.            S. Roundy, B. Otis, Y-H. Chee, J.M. Rabaey, and P.K. Wright, 2003. “A 1.9GHz RF Transmit Beacon using Environmentally Scavenged Energy,” 2003, ISPLED 2003, Seoul Korea , August 25 - 27, 2003 . Winner of a Best Paper Award

6.            S. Roundy, P.K. Wright and J. Rabaey, “Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks with Special Focus on Vibrations”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, published in 2004, 1- 212 pages, ISBN Number 1-4020-7663-0.

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