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 - present

Founder, Predictive Power Co.: 2000 - 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