Wendell C. Bean, P.E., Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Nuclear Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

 

     

e-mail: beanwc@hal.lamar.edu 

       

  Areas of Expertise

·        Control Systems

·        Biomedical Modeling and Analysis.

·        Nuclear Reactor Dynamics and Control.

 

Research Projects Completed/Underway 

·        P.C. Based Abnormal Heart Sounds Signal Processing. Funded Development Leave Research, 1990

·        Distillation Tower Pump Failure Transients; Jan. 1998 – July 1999 (with Patrick Lo, Daniel Chen)

 

Illustrative Papers/Presentations

·        “In-Plant Teaching of Nuclear Reactor Plant Kinetics and Control to Graduate Engineers and Scientists”; April 1966; I.E.E.E. Vol. IECI-13, No. 1

·        “Feedback System Concepts”; Feb. 1968; AEC R & D Report WAPD-TM-724

·        “A Neural Net Based 2D Vision System for Real-time Applications” (with G.N. Reddy); Proceedings of the 1992 International Simulation Technology Conference and Workshop on Neural Networks, NASA Johnson Space Center, Nov. 1992; Clear Lake, TX.

·        “An Improved Neural Network Simulator for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem” (with Vinay Saxena and G.N. Reddy), Proceedings of the 1992 International Simulation Technology Conference and Workshop on Neural Networks, NASA JSC, Nov. 1992, Clear Lake, TX.

·        “A Human-like Image Recognition System Using Artificial Neural Networks” (with G.N. Reddy and

R. Kuchibhatla), IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Cairo, Egypt,

December 4-7, 1995.

·        “Simulation of Distillation Tower Pump Failures with HYSYS Dynamic Models” (with Patrick Lo, Warren Thompson, Daniel Chen); accepted by Control – For the Process Industries, Putnam Publishing, October 2000.

 

Awards/Memberships

·        Outstanding Engineering Educator of I.E.E.E. Region 5 for 1996. /Life Senior Member I.E.E.E.

·        IEEE Third Millennium Medal for outstanding achievements and contributions.

·        Tau Beta Pi National Secretary’s Commendation for service as District 10 Director (TX-LA)

·        NIH Special Research Fellow at Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor – cardiovascular control modeling.

·        National/Texas Society of Professional Engineers/P.E. #40124 TX

·        Sigma Xi

·        Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society

·        Tau Beta Pi Honor Society