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Alexey MorozovMy Experiences in USJanuary 12 2012
NMC
MTU
UofM
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School Major AwesomenessNorthwestern Michigan College (NMC)
Engineering/Sciences (ASA in 2007)
Small school, challenging classes, superb professors, cheap, hands-on, extracurriculars
Michigan Technological University (MTU)
Electrical Engineering, (control) (BSEE in 2009)
Medium-size school, hard classes, specialized professors,lots of hands-on, outdoors
University of Michigan (UofM)
Aerospace Engineering, adaptive control(PhD in ?)
Gigantic school, super-hard classes, famous professors,lots of theory, football
NMC It was a great place
to start. I began polishing up my
English, learning the culture, figuring out what I’d
like to do for the rest of my life (both academically and for fun)
Traverse City, MI nmc.edu
NMC: classes
Name Description Name Description
English Composition (ENG 111)
Essays: structure, style, peer review
Calculus 1, 2, 3(MTH 141, 142, 241)
From 1D integration/differentiation to 3D
English for Engineers(ENG 112)
Creativity, experiments, reports
Differential Equations (MTH 251)
Linear, nonlinear, autonomous/forced
US History since 1865(HST 112)
Civil Rights, WWI, Depression, WWII, Cold War, etc.
Statics (EGR 201) Forces, moments, strength of materials Mohr’s circle
Survey of American Government (PLS 101)
Congress, President, courts, elections, etc.
Dynamics (EGR 202)
Moment of inertia, angular momentum equations of motion
Macroeconomics(ECO 201)
Gov-t regulation vs. free market
Engineering Graphics (EGR 113)
sketching/computer aided design (CAD)
Microeconomics (ECO 202)
Supply, demand, opportunity cost
Physics 1, 2 + labs (PHY 221, 222)
Kinematics to energy to waves to electromagnetics
Eastern Religions (PHL 122)
Overview: Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism
General Chemistry 1(CHM 150)
Elements, reactions, compounds, mole
Kuntaw 1 (PE 148) A martial art from Philippines
Computer Science: Java (MTH 116)
Classes, objects, methods, libraries
NMC: fun SAE Mini Baja! Math Club International Club Phi Theta Kappa Honors
Institute (Arun Gandhi) Habitat for Humanity
Alternative Spring Break
Student Government Association
Kuntaw Backpacking A little bit of sailing
Transition 1 Applied and got a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate
Transfer Scholarship. It is a nationally competitive scholarship program (my year there were ~700 applications, 51 of which received it).
“The JKCF scholarships are designed to encourage and support outstanding students from 7th grade through graduate school who have a breadth of interests, work hard, demonstrate a strong will to succeed, and have financial need.” (jkcf.org) Young Scholars
seeks high-achieving, low to moderate-income 7th grade students, and cultivates their talents and abilities throughout high school
College Scholars possible continuation of support for Young Scholars
Undergraduate Transfer Scholars honors excellence by supporting outstanding community college students
with financial need as they transfer to and complete their bachelor’s degrees at the nation’s top four-year colleges and universities
up to $30,000 per year plus you get a couple hundred super-awesome cousins
Graduate Scholars Graduate Arts Award Jack Kent Cooke Dissertation Fellowship
MTU Small school in a
small town far away from big cities – just what you need for studying and enjoying outdoors
Houghton, MI mtu.edu
MTU: classes
Name Description Name Description
Tech.Communication (HU 3120)
Technical communication
Electric Circuits(EE 2110)
Kirchhoff’s laws, AC, Norton equivalence
Engineering Statistics (MA 3710)
basic distributions and tests
Intro to Photonics(EE 2190)
geometrical optics
Introduction to Cryptography (3203)
classical cyphers and DES/AES, RSA
Electronics(EE 3130)
diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs
Intro Partial Diff. Eqns. (MA 4515)
Heat, wave, Fourier Series
Electric Energy Systems (EE 3120)
AC energy systems, transmission, alt. enr.
Complex Variables* DeMoivre’s thr., functions, integrals
Intro to Motor Drives(EE 3221)
DC (brush/less), AC (sync/induction)
Enterprise (ENT 3950)
Building an SAE Supermileage car
Digital Image Processing (EE 4257)
img. domain, freq. domain filtering
Electronics Labs(EE 2304)
from PCBs to microprocessors
Digital Signal Processing (EE 4252)
z-transf., DTFT, DFT, FFT, filtering in DT
Intro to Signal Processing (EE 2150)
simple time domain and freq. domain
Linear Systems and Control (EE 3160)
linear systems, transfer functions
Digital Logic(EE 2170)
Flip-flops, memory, Karnaugh maps
Classical Control(EE 4261)
stability, Bode, root locus, PID, lead/lag
Electromagnetics(EE 3140)
Maxwell’s equations
Digit. and Nonlinear Control (EE 4262)
observers, ZOH, phase locked loops
* Independent study
MTU: fun SAE Supermileage! IEEE Student Chapter Backpacking Skiing Sailing
Transition 2 Grad school is harder than you think (ie:
all-nighters in the beginning, before you get in the rhythm).
Ann Arbor is a bigger town than Houghton, which has pros and cons: Pros:
More things to do More restaurants to choose from
Cons: You don’t know everybody There is traffic (not Moscow-style, but
compared to Houghton, this is not fun)
UofM Big school in a
medium-sized town with world-renown academics and an active arts scene
Ann Arbor, MI umich.edu
UofM: classes
Name Description Name Description
Intermediate Dynamics (AE 540)
Newton, Euler, Lagrange, Rayleigh
Research (AE 590)
Directed study
Linear Systems (AE 550)
Controllability, Obs-y, Lyapunov fcns
Research (AE 590)
Directed study
Information Systems(AE 740)
(N)DFSA, Shannon, Bayes Nets, Markov DP
Research (AE 990)
Pre-candidate
Nonlinear Systems and Control (AE 551)
Lyapunov fcns, sliding mode, in/output lin-n
Research (AE 995)
Candidate
Spacecraft Dyn. and Control (AE 573)
Orbits, transfers, 2 body problem, 3BP
Research (AE 995)
Candidate
Probability and Random Processes (EECS 501)
Discrete and continuous distributions, processes
Research (AE 995)
Candidate
Flight and Trajectory Optimization AE 575)
Convex programming, QP, Newton’s, SQP
Research (AE 995)
Candidate
Adaptive Control* (NA 531)
Direct/Indirect, Model Reference AC
Research (AE 995)
Candidate
Stochastic Control* (EECS 551)
Discrete time, centralized, Markov policies, DP, LQG, KF
Research (AE 995)
Candidate* Audit
UofM: fun Tai Chi Climbing Sailing Eating
Transition 3
Who knows where I’ll go next… but send me an email in case you have questions:
This presentation and video can be found atumich.edu/~morozova/bio