Contact
- jdkimbal@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2638
- EERC 412
Lecturer
- BS, Physical Science/Computer Science, Central Michigan University
- MS, Physics, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
- EdS, Physics, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
- MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
Biography
Joel Kimball is a lecturer in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Kimball’s areas of expertise are the design and implementation of control systems and components, instrumentation systems for engineering and the physical sciences, and the numerical simulation and numerical solutions of problems. He has served as the advisor to the electrical engineering technology Senior Design team, which advanced to the National Institute of Navigation 2010 Robotic Lawn Mower Competition.
Research Interests
- Robotics and intelligent systems
- Design of astronomical instrumentation
- Control systems design and associated hardware
- Modeling of physical systems
- Integrated circuit design
Teaching Interests
- Circuits and controls
- Data acquisition with LabView
- Instrumentation
- Programmable controllers
- Physics
- Statistical analysis of data
- Senior design