Christopher Cischke

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Michigan Technological University

EERC 222 1400 Townsend Dr.

Houghton, MI, 49931

cmcischk@mtu.edu

Education

Michigan Technological University

    September 2006 – Present

    Ph.D. Candidate, Computational Science

        and Engineering

University of Minnesota

    2001– 2005

    Masters of Computer Engineering.

    Emphasis on Computer Architecture and

        User Interface Design.

Michigan Technological University

    1997– 2001

    B.S. Electrical Engineering, Engineering

        Enterprise Emphasis, Summa Cum

         Laude

Work Experience

Michigan Technological University

    August 2010 – Present:

    Senior Lecturer. Electrical and Computer
         Engineering Department.

    August 2005 – August 2010;

    Lecturer. Electrical and Computer

        Engineering Department.

   

    Teaching undergraduate electrical and computer engineering classes. Member on various committees. Advisor for Wireless Communication Enterprise and Senior Design. Simultaneously studying for Ph. D.

Unisys

    2001 – 2005;

    Hardware Engineer.

    Main responsibilities included: development of software tools to expedite hardware design process and automate data management; build manager and department revision control manager; department process engineer, hardware simulation, process documentation. Specific duties included

large-scale C#, C++ and Perl development, TCL programming, Unix shell scripting,

Verilog simulation and test debug, full process documentation.

General Motors

    May 2000 – August 2000;

    Summer Intern.

    Main responsibilities included: general tech support, research and purchase of a digital video camera and data projectors. Specific duties included technical research, writing purchase proposals, development in Visual Basic for Applications, multimedia training development and suitability testing of streaming video server software.

IBM

    November 1998 – August 1999;

    Co-op Student.

    VHDL logic simulation of FC-AL hard drive controller chips, moderated testcase hitlist, taught incoming co-ops and full-time employees product operation, wrote C programs.

Intellectual Property

Jason D. Sollom, James A. Williams and Christopher M. Cischke, Instruction Processor

Emulation Having Inter-processor Messaging Accounting, US 7,222,064.   Assigned to Unisys.

Christopher M. Cischke, Method and apparatus for creating integrated circuit simulator test source files, US 7,386,434.  Assigned to Unisys.

Christopher M. Cischke, Ashley K. Wise Generation of tests used in simulating an electronic circuit design, US 7,458,043.  Assigned to Unisys.

Classes Taught

Explorations in Computing, CS/EE 1000

    An introduction to the study of computing: fundamental concepts & skills; applications & career opportunities; social & ethical issues.

Electric Circuits, EE 2110

    Introduction to electric circuit networks. AC and DC circuit analysis techniques including: Kirchoff ’s Voltage and Current Laws, Ohm’s Law, Transient Analysis, Thevenin and Norton Equivalents.  Introduction to LaPlace Transforms and their application to electric circuits. Introduction to AC power analysis.

Digital Logic, EE 2173

    Introduce Boolean Algebra, Logic Gates, Combinational and Sequential Logic Design, Introduction to Verilog.

Microcontroller Applications, EE 3170

    Introduction to Microcontroller design and application. Assembly language programming, I/O and I/O synchronization. Overview of processor architecture and performance analysis. Applications using Freescale HCS12 microcontroller.

Hardware/Software Systems Integration, EE 3173

    Introduction to a number of bus architectures including PCI, RS-232, USB, FireWire, InfiniBand and CAN.  Discussions of I/O protocols, synchronization, bus arbitration. Statistical analysis of performance measurement.  Applications using a programmable FPGA — the Nios II architecture on an Altera Cyclone II FPGA.

Service

Undergraduate Program Committee

    2006–2010 Academic Years.

    Examining and validating undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering curricula.

Wireless Communications Enterprise

    2005–2010 Academic Years.

    Provide technical and administrative guidance. Manage budgets and approve purchasing. Act as liaison to University Enterprise department. Interface with external sponsors to raise financial support and acquire projects.

Senior Design

    2007–2008 Academic Year.

    Provide technical and administrative guidance to an industry-sponsored project.  Keep students on-track and provide technical guidance.

Summer Youth Programs

    Summer 2008, 2009

    Taught eighteen sessions to high-school students interested in engineering from under-represented groups (women and minorities).  Created all curriculum and kept them interested.

Presentations

National Society of Black Engineers, “A Day in the Life of a Computer Engineer”.

    25 February 2006.

Center for Teaching, Learning and Faculty Development, “The Pros and Cons of Podcasting”.

    01 March 2007.

Reviewed Texts

Mark Manwaring and Velijko D. Malbasa, Engineering the Hardware-Software Interface.

    McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Jonathon W. Valvano, Introduction to Embedded Systems: Interfacing to the Freescale 9S12.  Cengage Learning, 2008.

References

    Personal and professional references are available upon request.