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[gravatar email=”pitel@pcka.com” class=”alignleft” size=”96″ default=”https://pcka.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gravatar.jpg”]Grant Pitel received a BSEE from Cornell University at Ithaca, NY in 2003, and received a MSEE and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He was a finalist in the 2002 Cornell Big Red Venture Business Idea Competition, received the IEEE IAS Myron Zucker Student design award in 2003, a 2004 Energy Star Efficiency Challenge winner, and received the 2005 Grainger award. He has worked part-time for Magna-Power Electronics Inc. in Flemington, NJ from 1994-2002 as an assembler and later as a technician. He also interned as a platforms engineer for Google Inc. in Mountain View, CA in 2007. Currently he is a Senior Engineer at PCKA, where he has developed an automated graphical tool that validates simulated and lab measured data to power requirements (such as MIL-STD-46) and that auto generates reports. His professional interests include embedded systems; data-acquisition; power electronics design, analysis, simulation, and control; and web application development and hosting.

Selected Publications

  1. G. Pitel, “Minimum-Time  Transient Recovery using Raster Control Surfaces,” Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 24, Iss. 12,  2692 – 2703, December 2009.
  2. G. Pitel, “Fast Power Converters and Rapid Digital Design,” UILU-ENG-2008-2509, CEME-TR-2008-02, December 2008.
  3. G. Pitel, P. T. Krein, “Minimum-Time Digital Control with Raster Surfaces,” Proceedings IEEE Workshops on Computers in Power Electronics, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2008, pp. 1-8.
  4. G. Pitel, P. T. Krein, “Real-Time System Identification for Load Monitoring and Transient Handling of dc-dc Supplies,” Proceedings IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 2008, pp. 3807-3813.
  5. G. Pitel, P. T. Krein, “Transient Reduction of dc-dc Converters via Augmentation and Geometric Control,” Proceedings IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Orlando, FL, June 2007, pp. 1652-1657.
  6. G. Pitel, P. T. Krein, “Trajectory Paths for dc-dc Converters and Limits to Performance” Proceedings IEEE Workshops on Computers in Power Electronics, Troy, NY, July 2006, pp. 40-47.
  7. B. T. Kuhn, G. Pitel, P. T. Krein, “Electrical Properties and Equalization of Lithium-ion Cells in Automotive Applications,” 2005 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, September 2005.

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