Todd A. Perkins is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Howard University. After spending nearly 20 years in the broadcast, automotive and telecommunications industry, he left to pursue a M.S. and Ph.D. at Oakland University so he could teach engineering. Under the ‘coaching’ of Dr. M.A. Zohdy, his working dissertation title is Adaptive Nonlinear Control of Clutch Engagement in Modern Automotive Transmissions. His current research includes piecewise linear (PWL) modeling, State Space modeling, nonlinear Adaptive Controls and Simulink modeling. Todd enjoys working as a Teaching Assistant and teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) outreach camps to K-12 students.
