Ryan Lipski

Ryan will be graduating in May of 2015 with a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University. He has worked at Caterpillar Inc. through Bradley’s Practicum Program. His professional interests are controls and robotics.

Cameron Putz

Cameron will be graduating in May of 2015 with a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University. He is currently a member of IEEE and has obtained an executive position as the dream center volunteer coordinator. His professional interests are analog circuit design, controls and robotics.

Nicholas Sikkema

Nick will be graduating in May of 2015 with a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University. He has worked at Belcan Corporation as an Engineering Assistant. His professional interests are programming and robotics.

Dr. Joseph A. Driscoll

Dr. Joseph A. Driscoll has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, where his research was in the area of intelligent robotics. He also has a Ph.D. in physics, where his interests include theoretical and computational physics of nanoscale systems. He has worked in industry as a software developer in the areas of Internet content delivery and bioinformatics. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2011 he moved to Bradley University, where he was first an Assistant Professor of Engineering Physics, and then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Driscoll's primary research areas are intelligent robotics, high-performance computing (HPC), and MEMS/NEMS (micro/nano electromechanical system) device simulation. He works with neural networks, genetic algorithms, computer vision, and other forms of artificial intelligence. Many types of robots are used in his projects, including flying, walking, and wheeled robots. As part of his HPC work, he has developed courses and several parallel computing systems. He has written a book with Prof. Kalman Varga called Computational Nanoscience.