Dr. Timothy R. Tuinstra

About Dr. Tuinstra

Education:

BSEE 1996, Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio
MSEE 1998, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
Graduate Work 2000, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida
Ph.D. 2008, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio

Engineering Interests:

My engineering interests include signal, image, and video processing, digital communications, information theory, computational intelligence, antennas, medical imaging, nonlinear dynamics and chaos.

Employment:

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cedarville University, 2002-present
Senior Engineer, General Dynamics, 1998-2002
Research Assistant, University of Dayton, 1996-1998

Honors:

National Aerospace and Electronics Conference - Best Student Paper Award 1998
IEEE Dayton Section, Outstanding Electrical Engineering Student -Cedarville College 1996
Nehemiah Award - Cedarville College 1995

Publications:

Tuinstra, T.R., and Hardie, R.C., “High Resolution Image Reconstruction from Digital Video by Exploitation of Non-global Motion,” Optical Engineering , May, 1998.

Presentations:

3.17.09 - "Automatic Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in Computed Tomography Images" - Presented at the meeting of the IEEE Dayton Section Computer Society
6.22.06 - "Applying the Reformational Doctrine of Christian Vocation to our Understanding of Engineering as a Sacred Calling " presented at the Christian Engineering Education Conference.
4.5.06 - "Automatic Segmentation and Volume Estimation of Lung Cancer Nodules using Computed Tomography" - Poster presentation at the University of Dayton's Stander Symposium

Affiliations:

Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Member, The Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE
Voting Member, Creation Research Society

Courses I have taken since Cedarville:

(All courses taken at University of Dayton unless otherwise indicated)

Masters

Digital Signal Processing I & II
Random Processes
Contemporary Digital Systems
Linear Systems
Linear System and Fourier Optics
Image Processing
Numerical Methods

Ph.D.

Digital Communications I
Electromagnetics
Numerical Analysis I & II
Methods of Applied Mathematics
Wavelets
Medical Ultrasound, Wright State University (WSU)
Photon Radiation, WSU
Medical Imaging, WSU
Medical Image Processing, WSU
Statistical Signal Processing
Antenna Theory
Nonlinear Systems
Partial Differential Equations

Miscellaneous

Radar Systems, WSU
History of Christianity I, Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS)
Systematic Theology I, RTS

Short Courses

Synthetic Aperture Radar, at Sandia National Labs
Chaos, through The Teaching Company
Complex Systems, through the Teaching Company