Dr. Wei Wu earned her doctorate in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her area of specialization is power electronics and energy harvesting. Her dissertation was titled Micro-circuit Diode for Low-power Energy Harvesting. She joined Rose-Hulman's faculty in 2017. She has authored many publications and received many academic awards. She interned as a hardware engineer for Titan Aerospace, which was acquired by Google in 2014. In addition to her many interests, she is an experienced karate instructor.
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2017
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 2011
B.S., Measuring and Control Technology and Instrumentations, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 2009
Awards & Honors
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Outstanding Graduate Student, Foundation Scholarship, Competitive Graduate Award
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Top-Class Scholarship, Best Students Award
Publications & Presentations
F.Wang, W.Wu, V.Alizadehyazdi and A.Abedini, "Energy Harvesting Efficiency Optimization via Varying the Radius of Curvature of a Piezoelectric THUNDER", Proceedings of the ASME 2015 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Oct, Columbus, OH, 2015. W.Wu, A.Lozowski, F.Wang "Energy Harvesting Circuit for Energy Re-generator Shock Absorber with Impulse Excitation to a Vehicle", ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov.13-19, Houston, TX, 2015. W.Wu, A.Lozowski, F.Wang “improved rectifier circuit with backward diodes for low power source harvesting”, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Oct.22-24, San Antonio, TX, USA, 2014. W.Wu, A.Lozowski, "Local Control of Autonomous Power Inverters in a Microgrid", Conference on Systems Engineering Research, Mar.6, Saint Louis, MO, 2011. W.Wu, A.Lozowski, "Trace Impedance in Switch-mode Power Converters", Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, Feb.12-13, Urbana, IL, 2010.
Research Interests
Energy harvesting materials, devices, and applications.
Teaching Interests
Electronic circuits