Jeff Pieper
Positions
Professor
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Associate Dean
Schulich School of Engineering
Contact information
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 220-5776
Cell: 403-510-3121
Location
office: MEB521
Preferred method of communication
Background
Educational Background
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University, 1987
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, 1988
Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University, 1992
Biography
Jeff Pieper is the incoming Chair of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. He is also a member of the APEGA Discipline Committee, involved with deciding and enforcing malpractice decisions for Professional Engineers in Alberta.
Jeff Pieper has provided consulting services for a variety of Canadian companies over the past several years. These projects include dynamic systems analysis, control interfacing and design and along with full-package control systems design work for alternative energy turbines, vehicle steering systems, inertial navigation systems, and helicopter flight control systems.
Research
Areas of Research
Jeff Pieper has interests in the design and analysis of control systems and mechatronics. Other research areas include the analysis of dynamic systems and the development of design methodologies for mechatronic systems.
Current and recent research projects include:
- Control of wind and water turbines. Alternative energy turbine systems are challenging control problems in that they involve time varying dynamics, inherent instabilities, differing control objective under various operating conditions and other difficulties. Applications of parameter varying and adaptive control using emerging techniques have proven useful. Issues surrounding measurement of the operating point, estimation of the power output of the turbine and other practicalities make the area one of great interest.
- Helicopter flight controller design. In this line of research, a number of problems associated with control of helicopters is explored including hover and forward flight, slung loadings, flight under degraded visual cue environments and other aspects.
- Mechatronic systems design. General limits of performance for electro-mechanical systems are studied with a view to optimized design and use of computer-based control. The economic trade-offs associated with the inclusion of computational elements is balanced by the improved behaviour.
- Robust control design. The search for a control design methodology that can deal with uncertain nonlinear and multivariable systems is an ongoing research problem. Within this topic various strategies are developed and tested experimentally with a view to practical application.
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ENME 561 LAB 04 B04 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 562 LAB 01 B01 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2020 |
| ENME 562 LAB 03 B03 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2020 |
| ENME 61934 LEC 01 01 | Special Problems | 2020 |
| ENME 662 LAB 01 B01 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2020 |
| ENME 661 LAB 03 B03 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 661 LAB 04 B04 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2021 |
| ENME 562 LAB 02 B02 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2020 |
| ENME 661 LAB 01 B01 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 661 LAB 02 B02 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 662 LAB 03 B03 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2021 |
| ENME 662 LAB 02 B02 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2020 |
| ENME 561 LAB 01 B01 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 561 LAB 02 B02 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 561 LAB 03 B03 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 561 LEC 01 01 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2020 |
| ENME 562 LEC 01 01 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2020 |
| ENME 641 LEC 01 01 | Advanced Control Systems | 2020 |
| ENME 661 LEC 01 01 | Mechatronics Design Lab I | 2021 |
| ENME 662 LEC 01 01 | Mechatronics Design Lab II | 2021 |
Awards
- Fellow, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2021
- Member, Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. 2021
- Fellow, Engineers Canada. 2021
Publications
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