Dr. Gary L. Dempsey
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University Position: Associate Professor of ECE
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Campus Phone: (309) 677-2801
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Campus Office: Jobst Hall, # 339
Industry Employment
Caterpillar Inc., Systems and Controls Research Department, Peoria, Illinois
Consulting (part-time), May 1996 - present
Comdial Corporation, Charlottesville, Virginia
Electrical Engineering Consultant, August 1988 - June 1992
Electrical Engineer, August 1983 - August 1988
General Electric Company, Waynesboro, Virginia
Electrical Engineer, May 1982 - August 1983
Industry Projects
Application software design for GE2000 printer in 1982 (General Electric).
Hardware design for extended memory card for GE3000 printer in 1982 (General
Electric).
Hardware and software design of business system telephone introduced in
1984. Over 500,000 manufactured (Comdial).
Software design of business system telephone introduced in 1985 (Comdial).
Hardware design of an off-premise telephone system introduced in 1987 (Comdial).
Hardware/software design of 20 phone line monitoring system introduced
in 1988 (Comdial).
Software/hardware design of PBX interface card introduced in 1993 (Comdial).
Wheel loader bucket and steering control design, 1996 (Caterpillar).
Investigation of Antiwindup Control Compensation (with J. S. Alig), 1997
(Caterpillar).
Investigation of Feed-forward Compensation Methods (with J. S. Alig), 1997
(Caterpillar).
Robot Design (with Malinowski, Mattus, Dalhstrom, Febles Cortez, Konetski),
1999-2000 (Motorola).
Evaluation of Controller Methods for Hydraulic Transformer (with M. Bern),
2001-2002 (Caterpillar).
Evaluation of Neural Network Training Methods for Engine Diagnostics,
2001-2002 (Caterpillar).
Development of Force Control Capability for Backhoe Loader Testbed (with Joe Faivre),
2004-2005 (Caterpillar).
Last modified August 3, 2005