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Christopher Coulston

Teaching Professor

Contact Information

Brown Hall 310F

  • Electrical Engineering

Biography

Chris enjoys developing with embedded systems, from the PCBs to firmware to run them. Applications range from real-time asset tracking (people and a campus bus) to the utilization of LEDs as input devices. A long-standing project is investigating how to utilize commercial LEDs matrices as interactive touch displays.

Education

  • B.A. Physics, Slippery Rock University, PA, 1989
  • B.S. Computer Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, PA, 1991
  • M.S. Computer Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, PA, 1994
  • Ph.D. Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, PA, 1999

Research

  • embedded systems
  • digital design
  • signal processing
  • algorithms
  • computer architecture
  • control theory
  • PCB layout

Publications

  • Coulston, C., Hankewycz, D., and Kelleher, A., “A Mobile Application to Track a Campus Bus,” Circuit Cellar, Issue #287, June 2014.