Faculty Co-Directors
Jim Garrett
Professor and Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Co-Director, Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research
Email: garrett@cmu.edu
Phone: 412-268-5674
BP 119D
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Abbreviated Professional History
James H. Garrett, Jr. is a professor and head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the Director of the Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR) in the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon. Garrett is currently the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers (IABSE). His research and teaching interests are oriented toward applications of sensors and sensor systems to civil infrastructure condition assessment; mobile hardware/software systems for field applications; representations and processing strategies to support the usage of engineering codes, standards, and specifications; and knowledge-based decision support systems. Garrett received the following degrees in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon: B.S. in 1982, M.S. in 1983, and Ph.D. in 1986.
Garrett was awarded the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award in 2006 by the Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology. He also received the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering Best Paper Award in 2001 for the paper he co-authored with Han Kiliccote, entitled "Standards Usage Language (SUL): An Abstraction Boundary between Design Systems and Standards Processors." He is a co-recipient of the 1993 ASCE Wellington Prize for his paper entitled "Knowledge-Based Design of Signalized Intersections," which he co-authored with Rahim Benekohal and Jeffrey Linkenheld. In 1992, Garrett was awarded the IABSE Prize for achievements in applying Expert Systems in Structural Engineering. He is also a co-recipient of the 1990 ASCE Moisseiff Award for his paper entitled "Knowledge-Based Standard-Independent Member Design", which he co-authored with Steven J. Fenves. In 1994, he was also a Humboldt Stipendiat and spent 6 months at the University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University Munich. He is also a 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Awardee and a recipient of the 1992 IABSE Prize from the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers.
Education
B.S. 1982, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. 1983, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. 1986, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Ed Schlesinger
David Edward Schramm Professor, Department Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: ed@ece.cmu.edu
Phone: 412-268-8728
1106 Hamerschlag Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
T.E. Schlesinger is the David Edward Schramm Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this he was the Director of the Data Storage Systems Center, Associate Department Head in ECE, and was the founding co-director of the General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory at CMU. Professor Schlesinger is currently the Director of the DARPA MISCIC Center at CMU. He received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Toronto in 1980 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1985 respectively. His research interests are in the areas of solid state electronic and optical devices, nanotechnology, and information storage systems.
He is a Fellow of the SPIE, is President of the ECE Department Heads' Association, and a member of the International Advisory Panel for the A*STAR Graduate Academy in Singapore. In 2001 he received the Benjamin Richard Teare Award for Teaching from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He has published over two hundred fifty archival journal publications and invited and contributed conference presentations and holds twelve patents.
Gary Fedder
Director of ICES, Director of CIMM, Howard M. Wilkoff Professor of ECE, Professor of Robotics, Co-Director of PITA
Email: fedder@cmu.edu
Phone: 412-268-8443/5352
1201C Hamburg Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Gary Fedder is the director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems. Dr. Fedder is also the Howard M. Wilkoff Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds a joint appointment in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Robotics Institute.
Dr. Fedder earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1982 and 1984, respectively. From 1984 to 1989, he worked at the Hewlett-Packard Company on circuit design and printed-circuit modeling. In 1994, he obtained the Ph.D. degree from U. C. Berkeley, where his research resulted in the first demonstration of multimode control of an under damped surface-micromachined inertial device. His research interests include microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) modeling, simulation and synthesis, integration of MEMS and CMOS, physical sensor design, microactuator control systems, RF MEMS, gas chemical microsensors and implantable biosensors. He is the founder and co-director of the MEMS Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon and has directed several multidisciplinary research projects in microsystems with investigators at Carnegie Mellon University, and from academia and industry. From 1996 to the present, his group has refined a hierarchical circuit-based representation of surface-micromachined MEMS that forms the foundation for an intuitive, reusable, top-down design environment.
