Mark Bauer

Contact Information:

City Campus (Lincoln)

SEC C290R

(402) 472-3771

mark@engr.unl.edu

Professor of Practice

Academic Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln , 1989
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1980

Experience

Experience includes a wide range of activities from printed circuit board layout to embedded system design. Many designs were successful products that are still being manufactured after 20 years. A significant amount of time has been devoted to software design and implementation with micro-controllers. Several years were also devoted to managing teams of individuals to produce manufacturable products.

Nebraska R & D
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2006 – present : Instructor for the Electrical Engineering Senior Design.
Lester Electrical of Nebraska
625 West A Street
Lincoln, NE 68522

Lester Electrical manufactures battery chargers for industrial and consumer markets in addition to custom designed electrical products.

September 2005 to January 2006 Senior Staff Technologist
Was responsible for tracking new products and technologies that might have an impact on the business plans.
October 2003 to September 2005 Director of Research and Development
Was responsible for all research done on new technologies to be incorporated into future products.
October 1997 to October 2003 Director of Product Engineering
Managing a staff of 34, was responsible for all new product development and getting new products into production.
April 1996 to October 1997 Product Manager
June 1983 to April 1996 Electrical Engineer
August 1981 to June 1983 Lab Technician

Dynamic Computer Architecture
June 1982 to June 1983 Computer Design Engineer
This government funded company was created to design a specialized computer from the ground up. Was responsible for the design of the hardware to implement a majority of the instruction set.

Synergistic Activities:

Managed Engineering department of 34 individuals in 4 project teams with multiple projects per team
Strong embedded programming skills in several computer languages including C, Fortran, Forth, several assemblers, Pascal, and others.
Taken projects to production with microprocessors families from MSP430, Pic, Atmel, and Z80.
Strong Unix, Linux skills including Open Office, Word, Excel, and MySQL.

In the News: Powered by the

Oct 20, 2021: Qiao, Bauer research supports $25M contract for strategic deterrence, nuclear threat reduction

May 20, 2021: Nine engineering researchers chosen to NSRI Fellows cohort

Dec 09, 2016: 'Directed chaos' leads students to creative solutions in ELEC 121

Sep 29, 2016: ECE's Bauer, students find 'MacGyver'-like inspiration

Apr 26, 2016: Late pressure leads to People's Choice Award at Senior Design Showcase

Selected Publications

N. Schemm, S. Balkir, M. W. Hoffman, and M. Bauer, “A Computational Sensor System for Particle Detection Applications,” IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2169-2172, May 2009.
N. Schemm, B. Liang, S. Balkir, M. W. Hoffman, and M. Bauer, ``A Single Chip Computational Sensor System for Gamma Isotope Identification," to be presented in IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, May 2010, Paris, France
D. Schultz, B. Blasy, J.C. Santana, J.C. Petrosky, J.W. McClory, D. LaGraffe, J.I. Brand, J. Tang, W. Wang, N. Schemm, S. Balkir, M. Bauer, I. Ketsman, R.W. Fairchild, Ya. B. Losovyj, P.A. Dowben, "The K-shell Auger electron spectrum of gadolinium obtained using neutron capture in a solid state device," Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 43, no. 7, 43, 2010.

Dissertation:

A Distance Measure For DNA Sequences. This dissertation explores the use of patterns in average mutual information contained in DNA sequences as a method of identification of the sequences origin.

Thesis:

Symbolic Boolean Equation Manipulation With A Stack Based Interpreter