Shad Roundy


Department of Engineering                               phone:  +61 2 6125 2462
Australian National University                          fax:  +61 2 6125 0506

Canberra, ACT 0200                                      email:  shad.roundy@anu.edu.au

Australia                                                         

 

Education


Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, May 2003.

·       Dissertation: “Energy Scavenging with a Focus on Vibration-to-Electricity Conversion for Low Power Wireless Devices”.

Committee: Paul K. Wright, Kris S. J. Pister, Jan M. Rabaey

 

M.S. University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, May 2000.

·       Thesis: “The Design Consultant Shell:  A Framework for Integrating Distributed CAD/CAM Tools into a Unified Design and Manufacturing System”.

 

B.S. Brigham Young University, Mechanical Engineering, 1996.

·       Graduated Summa Cum Laude

 

Experience

Lecturer: Department of Engineering, Australian National University, 2003 – present.

·       Responsible for System Dynamics and Robotics courses.

·       Research focus is on MEMS as it applies to energy scavenging and robotics.

 

Doctoral Research: Berkeley Manufacturing Institute, UC Berkeley, 2000 – 03.

·       Investigated alternative methods to scavenge power for small wireless sensor nodes. Specifically designed, modeled, fabricated, and tested meso-scale and micro-scale generators that convert vibrations to electricity using piezoelectrics and electrostatic MEMS technology.

·       Managed a collaborative project with the Pirelli tire company to develop generators for wireless sensors to be embedded inside tires.

·       Helped direct new graduate students and their research.

 

Master’s Research: Berkeley Manufacturing Institute, UC Berkeley, 1998 – 99.

·       Developed a web based design and manufacturing environment for the improved coordination of distributed CAD/CAM software tools.

 

Manufacturing Development Engineer: Hewlett Packard, Ink Jet Business Unit, 1996 – 98

·       Led process control effort for a product development team and an assembly line.

·       Led a worldwide group of process control engineers for two product lines.

·       Wrote process control software for use on assembly lines.

·       Developed assembly processes for new products.

Graduate Student Instructor: “High-Tech Product Design and Rapid Manufacturing”,

UC Berkeley, 1999

·       Advised students on design projects.

·       Presented selected lectures.  Assisted with lectures including development of lecture slides.

 

Honors / Awards

·       Winner of Low Power Design Contest, IEEE International Symposium Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2003).

·       Intel Noyce Fellowship.

·       Department Of Energy Integrated Manufacturing Fellowship.

·       ORCA Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award.

·       Trustee's Scholarship at Brigham Young University.

·       3rd place, ASME Comparative Motion Control Design Competition.

 

Publications

Journal Articles

Roundy, S., and Wright, P. K., 2004. “A Piezoelectric Vibration based Generator for Wireless Electronics”, under review for publication in Smart Materials and Structures.

Roundy, S., Wright, P. K., and Rabaey, J., 2003. “A Study of Low Level Vibrations as a Power Source for Wireless Sensor Nodes”, Computer Communications, vol. 26, no. 11, pp 1131 - 1144.

Ahn, S. H., Montero, M., Odell, D., Roundy, S., and Wright, P. K., 2002. “Anisotropic Material Properties of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) ABS”, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 8, (no. 4), pp. 248-257.

Dornfeld, D., Wright, P. K., Roundy, S., Rangarajan, A., and Ahn, S. H., 2001, “Agent Interaction in CAD/CAM”, Transactions of NAMRI/SME, Vol. XXIX, pp. 569-575.

Jan M. Rabaey, M. Josie Ammer, Julio L. da Silva Jr., Danny Patel, and Shad Roundy, 2000. “PicoRadio Supports Ad Hoc Ultra Low-Power Wireless Networking,” Computer, vol.33, (no.7), IEEE Comput. Soc. p.42-8.

 Conference Papers

Roundy, S., Steingart, D., Frechette, L., Wright P., Rabaey, J. 2004. “Power Sources for Wireless Sensor Networks”, 1st European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, Jan. 19 – 21, 2004, Berlin.

Roundy, S., Otis, B., Chee, Y-H., Rabaey, J., Wright, P.K., 2003.  “A 1.9 GHz Transmit Beacon using Environmentally Scavenged Energy.”  ISPLED 2003, August 25-27, 2003, Seoul Korea.

Roundy, S., Wright, P. K., and Pister, K. S. J., 2002. “Micro-Electrostatic Vibration-to-Electricity Converters”, ASME IMECE, Nov. 17-22, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Montero, M., Odell, D., Roundy, S., Ahn, S. H., and Wright, P. K., 2001. “Material Characterization of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Process”, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Conference, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, May 15-17, 2001 Cincinnati, OH.

Ahn, S. H., Roundy, S., Wright, P. K., and Liou, S. H., 1999. "`Design Consultant' Network-Based Concurrent Design Environment," ASME IMECE, Nov. 14-19, 1999, Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 563-569.

Books and Book Chapters

Roundy, S., Strasser, M., Wright P.K., 2004. “Powering Ambient Intelligent Networks”, in Ambient Intelligence, eds J. Rabaey and W. Weber, Springer-Verlag, New York.

Roundy, S., Wright, P.K., Rabaey, J.M., 2003. Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston MA.