MICHEL ELIZABETH HOLDER

EDUCATION:

1992 PhD in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University with a minor in Mathematics.

1987 Master of Science with a major in Electrical Engineering (Instrumentation/Control) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

1985 B.S. in Engineering ‑ Mechanical (Systems) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and University of Tennessee at Knoxville

WORK HISTORY:

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

Assistant Professor of Engineering – Original appointment August, 1993

Presently teaching four/five courses per semester including: 1) basic electrical circuits laboratory at the sophomore level, 2) semiconductor electronics for junior electrical engineering majors, including the lab, 3) advanced electronics with laboratory, 4) Instrumentation with LABview (Virtual Instrumentation) and GE PLC’s for senior electrical majors, and 5)Microprocessor Applications programming for the MC68HC12.

Recycled Wood Products, Div. of HMVH Corporation, Chattanooga, TN

VP Engineering, Research and Development

Total responsibility for design and fabrication of second generation process equipment, instrumentation and automation using an OMRON programmable controller. Extensive use of hydraulics and air.

Recycled Wood Products, Inc., Chattanooga, TN

Plant Manager and CEO

Formed corporation based upon my patented process for producing artificial fire logs from biomass. Personally handled all phases of engineering, manufacturing, and marketing from development of the conceptual design, to the building of the actual manufacturing facility. Obtained patents on the process and capitalized the corporation. Sold to HMVH in 1981.

Holder Contracting Company, Chattanooga, TN

Owner/Contractor

Engaged in residential and commercial building and remodeling. Designed all structures built and actively participated in all phases of construction.

ITT Data Services, Paramus, NJ

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Developed detailed program specifications for a sales-revenue reporting system for ITT World Communications and served as project leader during implementation of the system. Generated two APAR's to IBM, Poughkeepsie, to correct DOS software. Wrote several software packages.

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PATENTS:

Patent #5,413,222 (5/9/95) - Method of separating a particular metal fraction from a stream of materials containing various metals.

Patent #4,436,426 (3/13/84) ‑ Method for making an artificial fuel log

Patent #4,220,453 (9/2/80) ‑ Process for producing artificial fire logs

PUBLICATIONS:

“A Modified Karnaugh Map Technique”, published in IEEE Transactions on Education, February - 2005

"Using Time Moments to Determine System Response" published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 35, No. 13, 1988

A Macroscopic Analysis of Eddy Currents in Nonferrous Metals,

PhD dissertation, Vanderbilt University, May – 1992

GRANTS:

$15,000 Award from Tennessee Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners for the purchase of

Programmable Controllers for the electrical engineering laboratories.

MISCELLANEOUS:

Passed Tennessee State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners

PE Exam, October - 1997

Passed Tennessee State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners

EIT (FE) Exam, April ‑ 1985

Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE

Journeyman Electrician ‑ licensed since 1975

Chair of the UTC Admissions Committee 2002 - 2005

Selected three times to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers