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Clark Kinnaird kinnaird@ieee.org Education Teaching Experience Industry Experience Publications Activities and Awards |
Education: Dissertation: "Adaptive Fuzzy
Process Control of Integrated Circuit Wire Bonding"
Areas of concentration: Advanced Control Theory,
Circuit Design, Statistics
Areas of concentration: Control Theory, Communications, Circuit Design
1999 – Present Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas
Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering Department
Supervision of practical electronics laboratory sessions
Classes: Electric Circuits, Electronics, Signals & Systems, Control Theory, Digital Logic
1983 – 1984 University of Florida Gainesville, Florida
Teaching Assistant Electrical Engineering Department
Course development for undergraduate applied linear control laboratory
2013 - present Texas Instruments Dallas, Texas
Systems/Applications Engineering
Focus on automotive body motors
1999 - 2013 Texas Instruments Dallas, Texas
Product Definition, Industrial Interface Products
Apply technical advancements to anticipate and solve customer systems problems
Expand technical roadmap and competitive strategy for interface products
Develop in-house technical training for design, test, and applications
personnel
Systems Engineer / Project Leader Wire Bond Department
Developed on-machine process inspection, enabling fine pitch wire bonding control
Increased throughput with new three-axis servo design
Lead Electrical Engineer Electro-Optics Systems
Developed computer simulations and analysis algorithms for product evaluation
C.Kinnaird & K. Stauder
"How Semiconductors Improve Thermal Management in Electric Vehicles"
SAE Internaltional Thermal Management Systems Symposium, October 2023
C.Kinnaird
"Wie Viele Elektromotoren Befinden Sich In Ihrem Auto"
Next Mobility News, June 2018
Wie viele Elektromotoren befinden sich in Ihrem Auto?
C.Kinnaird
"Electric Motor Applications in Automotive: Trends and Innovations"
Motor and Drive Systems Conference , February 2018, Orlando
C.Kinnaird
"Digital Adjustment of DC Motor Drive Circuit Parameters"
IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference, October 2016
C.Kinnaird
"Electronic Design of Compact BLDC Motor Control"
SAE Int. J. Passenger Cars - Electron. Electr. Syst, August 2015
also presented at SAE World Congress, April 2015, Detroit
C.Kinnaird
"Differential Signaling Best Practices"
ECN magazine, (www.ecnmag.com) January 2013
C. Kinnaird
"AISG OOK Modem Implementations"
Antenna Systems & Technology, (www.antennasonline.com) Fall 2011
also presented at Antenna Systems 2011, Nashville September 2011
C. Kinnaird
"Reduce Power in Your RS-485 Network",
Electronic Design (www.electronicdesign.com) October 2010
C. Kinnaird
"Signaling Rate versus Cable Length; the CAN-bus timing trade-off",
Industrial Control Design Line (www.industrialcontroldesignline.com) July 2009
C. Kinnaird
"Integrate Industrial Inputs",
Electronic Products Magazine (www.electronicproducts.com) November 2008
C. Kinnaird and A. Partow
"Time Domain Specification of Transformer-coupled Transceivers"
IEEE Region 5 Technical Conference (www.ieee.org) April 2007
C. Kinnaird
"Interface Options for Position Encoders"
EE Times India, EE Times Asia (www.eetimes.com) January 2006
C. Kinnaird
"Untangle Industrial Network Selection"
Control Design magazine (www.controldesign.com) June 2005
C. Kinnaird
"Equalization Enhances RS-485 Links"
EDN, February 2004
C. Kinnaird
"Using RS-485 for Digital Motor Control Applications"
Chip Center, January 2003
C. Kinnaird
"Standards are Key to Optimizing High-Speed Data Bus Communications"
EE Times, Planet Analog, October 2002
C. Kinnaird
"RS-485 for Networked Meter Applications"
Proceedings of the AMRA Conference, San Antontio, September 2002
C. Kinnaird
"Optimization of high-speed data bus communications"
Proceedings of the Analog & Mixed Signal Application Conference
Planet Analog (www.planetanalog.com) Fall 2000
C. Kinnaird, and A. Khotanzad
"Adaptive fuzzy Process Control of Integrated Circuit Wire Bonding"
IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing July 1999
A. Khotanzad, H. Elragal, and C. Kinnaird
"Neural Network Based Process Control of Integrated Circuit Wire Bonding Machine"
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Washington, D.C. July 1999
C. Kinnaird
"Fuzzy Model-Based Process Control"
Proceedings of the Texas Instruments Symposium on Advanced Process Control
Dallas August 1998
C. Kinnaird and A. Khotanzad
"Wire Bonding Process Control using Fuzzy Logic"
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing
San Francisco October 1997 (www.issm.com)
C. Kinnaird and A. Khotanzad
"Fuzzy process control of integrated circuit wire bonding"
Proceedings of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
Syracuse, New York September 1997 (www.nafips.org)
Registered Professional Engineer, State of Texas
Senior Member of IEEE
Elected to Eta Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society, 1984
Texas Instruments Method Improvement Recognition award, 1992
SMU "Honoring Our Professors' Excellence" (HOPE) recognition, 2003