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Winter 2002-03
Short Bio of Edward W. Tunstel, Ph.D.
Edward Tunstel, Jr. is a PhD alumnus of ECEatUNM who graduated under the advisement
of Professor Mo Jamshidi (who was then the director of the
Center for Autonomous Control Engineering at UNM). Tunstel studied here on a fellowship from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after
receiving a master's degree from Howard University in 1989 and working at JPL for several years. Dr. Tunstel's graduate work in control systems and fuzzy-logic based
navigation paved the way for much of the mobile robotics work that goes on at ECE-UNM
today. One of Dr. Tunstel's achievements as a grad student here was to lead development of the LOBOt Jr. mobile robot created in the Intelligent Distributed Multi-Agent Robotic Systems Laboratory.
Dr. Tunstel now works at the
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories, and he is the NASA Technical
Monitor for the PURSUE program at UNM. Dr. Tunstel also has close affiliations
with the ACE center. "I was
a PhD student when the initial proposal to NASA to start the [ACE] center was
developed, and my presence there as a JPL Fellow at the time was instrumental in
the success of the proposal." Tunstel said.
He donates his time to ACE for research and student collaborations.
"I really enjoy my work at JPL." Tunstel said. "It's a campus-like environment populated by
thousands of engineers and scientists working on and conceiving projects
of space exploration. JPL's charter is the unmanned exploration of space
for NASA, and we are NASA's lead robotics center for this purpose."
Dr. Tunstel, who goes by "Eddie" to friends, is working on the
2003 Mars Exploration Rovers Mission that plans to launch a rover to Mars in 2003(expected to arrive at Mars in 2004). Students who are interested in this
type of research and development should contact the ACE and PURSUE labs at ECE.
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Department of Electrical &
Computer Engineering
MSC01 1100
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
USA
Phone: 1-505-277-2436
Fax: 1-505-277-1439
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