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Professor Emeritus James A. (Alex) Carruthers dies

James Alexander Carruthers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Professor Emeritus James A. Carruthers died Nov. 12 at age 88.
   He taught at the Electrical Engineering Department from
   1965-1986. As part of the EE's Quantum Electronics and Optics
   Group, Carruthers researched laser isotope separation,
   miniature high-pressure gas lasers, pulse propagation and
   hybrid electric cars.
  
   Carruthers received his Ph.D. from McGill University, Montreal,
   Quebec in 1949, served as scientist and section head, Atomic
   Defense, Defense Research Board of Canada, 1951-59, and
   then worked with the British government's team to develop
   atomic capability.

   He served as Physics professor at McGill University, 1959-62;
   research scientist at Honeywell Aerospace, Minneapolis,
   1962-64; and professor of Electrical Engineering at the
   University of Minnesota, Minneapolis until he retired in 1986.


Daniel Sun (MSEE'93), owner of Sun-Net Consulting, dies

Daniel Sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Daniel Sun, owner of Sun-Net, Consulting of San Jose, Calif.,
   died of liver cancer. He is survived by his wife, Helen Hu
   (MSEE '94), and a daughter, Joanna. Daniel and Helen
   worked for Siemens after graduating from the University of
   Minnesota and then moved to California where they both
   worked for ABB in Santa Clara and eventually started Sun-Net
   Consulting, a leader in the field of outage scheduling and
   leading supplier of transmission outage applications
   software. 


   Sun-Net generously gave funds in Daniel memory to the
   University of Minnesota Foundation to provide fellowships
   for student studying electric power systems.
   (Bruce Wollenberg, advisor)

  

Bazerque receives U of M Distinguished Master's Thesis

Juan Andres Bazerque  ECE graduate student Juan Andres Bazerque’s
  master thesis was chosen as the Distinguished
  Master’s Thesis of 2009-10 and chosen to be
  nominated for the 2010 Midwest Association of
  Graduate Schools Distinguished Master’s Thesis.

        

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If your company needs precision machining and fabrication, Electrical and Computer Engineering's Shop staff is ready to discuss your specifications and provide the quality needed for your next project. Contact Dave Hultman at 612-625-2062. Click here to visit our Web site.

 

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