Chathan Cooke, Professor

Chathan Cooke
Parallel appointments at MIT and Suffolk, 2004-present
cmcooke@mit.edu
ccooke@ee.suffolk.edu
Office: Archer 310
Tel: 617 573-8565

Research Interests: Electronic materials, sensors and sensor networks

Education

B. S. Electrical Engineering, R.P.I.      1964
M. S. Electrical Engineering, M.I.T. 1966
Sc.D. Electrical Engineering, M.I.T. 1970

Employment

Lecturer, M.I.T  (9 different courses)   1973 to present

Founder,  Predictive Power Co.   2000 to 2004

High Voltage Research Lab, M.I.T.   1964 to present

GenRad      1963 - 1964

Acoustic Research     1961 - 1962

Consulting and Technical Expert to over 30 Agencies and Firms

Publications

1. “In-Service Detection of Electrical Partial Discharge Events” w/ T. Cargol, and S. Skinner. EPRI Conference on Substation Diagnostics, New Orleans, Feb. 2004.

2. “Experimental Study and Simulation of Space Charge Stimulated Discharge” w/  M. Noskov, A. Malinovski, K. Wright, and A.J. Schwab; Journal Appl. Physics, Vol. 92, No. 9, pp4926-4934, Nov. 2002.

3. “Charge Accumulation and Dynamics Near Insulator-Electrode Interfaces”, 4th Intn’l Conf. on Electric Charge in Solid Insulators, Tours France, Jun-Jul 2001.

4. C.M.Cooke. Y.Hoshina, M.Miyashita, Y.Shimizu, “Polarization and Charge Transport in Unfilled Epoxy”, B1-7, Int’nl Symposium. On Electrical Insulation Materials, Kitakyushu, Japan, May 2005

Professional Activities

TaSI, Chairman of Suffolk University’s Technology and Science Initiative

IEEE Journal of Electrical Insulation - member of Publication Review Panel

CIGRE working group on Gas Insulation - secretary

CIGRE working group on Capacitors

CIGRE - U.S. expert Representative on Insulation

CIGRE, Covenor, Joint Working Group SC15/33 - Insulation Monitoring & Life Est.High Voltage Workshop - ’Pulse PowerCommittee on Electron Devices; Co-Chairman
 Institute National de Physique - Select Comite Technique Vivitron 

Courses Taught at Suffolk

Circuit Theory I

Electronic Devices II