John Anderson

John Anderson is a senior at Northern Arizona University majoring in Electrical Engineering with a computer emphasis. He will be graduating in May 2008. He currently works in the IT department for the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at NAU. John has accepted a job at General Dynamics in Scottsdale Arizona and will be working in their Communications / Networks Division.

Andre Chezik

Andre Chezik is a senior at Northern Arizona University. He will be graduating in May with bachelors of electrical engineering with computer emphasis and a mathematics minor. He is currently employed in the Wireless Networks Research laboratory there. In 2005 Andre graduated with honors from Yavapai College with an Associate of Science and Associate of Applied Science. He is a member of several professional organizations including IEEE and Tau Beta Pi. Andre has traveled extensively through Europe. He married his wife in Turkey in 2002.

Bryan Hancock

Bryan Hancock is a senior in the Electrical Engineering program and is graduating in May 2008. He currently works for the College of Education as a web developer, and has accepted a job with General Dynamics in Scottsdale, AZ. He has a wife, a daughter and a second on the way. Bryan's wife will be graduating from NAU in May 2008 with a B.A. in Music.

Mike Thomson

Mike Thomson is a senior in the Electrical Engineering program (Computer Engineering Emphasis) at Northern Arizona University. He is currently a web developer at the College of Education at NAU, and will start working in June 2008 for General Dynamics in Needham, Massachusetts. Mike is a member of IEEE and has been involved in many different undergraduate research and indepedent study opportunities while attending NAU. His areas of research include B-spline image approximation, hardware-based Gaussian white noise generators, and FPGA test benches for error-correcting algorithms.

Technical Advisor

Our technical advisor is an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University:

Dr. Nazmul Islam

Dr. Nazmul Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering department. He has received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the biomedical engineering department at the University of Tennessee. He also has worked in Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, as a summer intern and research associate. His research interests are in microelectronics, mixed signal circuits, microfluidics, MEMS and bio-sensors.