Dr. Simon Ang
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Office: BELL 3167
Phone: (479) 575-7683
Fax: (479) 575-7967
E-mail: ssa@engr.uark.edu
Education
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University
Teaching and Research
- Microelectronics
- Power electronics
- MEMs, "Mixed-Signal"
- Electronic packaging
Biographical Information
Simon Ang graduated, with highest honors, in 1980 from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, with a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering. He subsequently completed the M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Ang worked for seven years at Texas Instruments holding a variety of increasingly responsible positions including a section manager in the Advanced Power Integrated Circuit Development Center prior to joining University of Arkansas in 1988. He became Assistant Professor in 1988, Associate Professor in 1991, and a full Professor in 1995. He received numerous teaching awards and supervised over 80 M.S. and Ph.D. students in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering. He received the AAEE Outstanding Faculty Award in 1990, 1991, and 1995. Dr. Ang received the Arkansas Alumni Association Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching in 1994 and received the Insignia Award in Technology by the City and Guilds of London Institute, England in 1988 for his work on power semiconductor device development. He is the author and co-author of more than 230 journal and proceeding articles and 6 book chapters. He holds three U.S. patents. He is the author of the book "Power Switching Converters" (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1995) and the principal author of “Power-Switching Converters” (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2005). Dr. Ang is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), the Electrochemical Society, and City and Guilds of London Institute (UK).
