Gregory M. Shaver

Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University, 585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
gshaver@purdue.edu
Phone: 765-494-9342
Fax: 765-494-0787
Degrees:
BSME (Purdue '00)
MSME (Stanford '04)
PhD (Stanford '05)
Research Interests
Research Team
Gayatri Adi - MSME, PhD
Carrie Hall - direct PhD
Chris Satkoski - MSME
Rajani Modiyani - MSME
David Snyder - direct PhD
Karla Stricker - MSME
Dan van Alstine - direct PhD
Lyle Kocher - direct PhD
Ed Koeberlein - MSME
Journal Publications & Book Chapters
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew Roelle and J. Christian Gerdes, Patrick A. Caton and Christopher F. Edwards, Dynamic Modeling of HCCI Engines Utilizing Variable Valve Actuation, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 374-381, 2005
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew Roelle and J. Christian Gerdes, Jean-Pierre Hathout, Jasim Ahmed, Aleksandar Kojic, Patrick A. Caton and Christopher F. Edwards, A Physically Based Approach to Control of HCCI Engines with Variable Valve Actuation, International Journal of Engine Research, vol. 6, no. 4, July 2005, pp. 361-375(15)
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle and J. Christian Gerdes, Physics-based Modeling and Control of Residual-Affected HCCI Engines, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Volume 131, Issue 2, 2009
Gregory M. Shaver, Enabling Simultaneous Reductions in Fuel Consumption, NOx, and CO2 via Modeling and Control of Residual-Affected Low Temperature Combustion, chapter in: Emerging Environmental Technologies, Springer 2008
Gregory M. Shaver, Stability Analysis of Residual-Affected HCCI using Convex Optimization, to appear in: IFAC Control Engineering Practice (CEP) in response to invitation for inclusion in a Special Issue - Advances in Automotive Control, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 1454-1460
Aman Yadav, Gregory M. Shaver, and Peter Meckl, Lessons learned: Implementing the case teaching method in a mechanical engineering course, to appear in: The Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Mike Bunce, and Gregory M. Shaver, Biodiesel Blend Estimation via a Wideband Oxygen Sensor, The ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, July 2009, Volume 131, Issue 4
David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Mike Bunce, Chris Satkoski, and Gregory M. Shaver, Fuel Blend Fraction Estimation for Fuel-Flexible Combustion Control: Uncertainty Analysis, to appear in: IFAC Control Engineering Practice, Sept. 2008
Anup Kulkarni, Karla Stricker, Angieline Blum, and Gregory M. Shaver, PCCI Control Authority of a Modern Diesel Engine Outfitted with Flexible Intake Valve Actuation, to appear in: The ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
Anup Kulkarni, Sriram S. Popuri, Gregory M. Shaver, Tim R. Frazier, and Donald W. Stanton, Validation of a Computationally Efficient Whole-Engine Model of a Cummins 2007 Turbocharged Diesel Engine, The ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, February 2010, Volume 132, Issue 2
Michael Bunce, David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Jeremy Koehler, Bernabe Davila, Phanindra Garimella, Shankar Kumar, Donald Stanton, and Gregory M. Shaver, Optimization of Soy-Biodiesel Combustion in a Modern Diesel Engine, in review: Fuel, March 2009
Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, David Snyder, Michael Bunce, Chris Satkoski, Shankar Kumar, Phanindra Garimella, Donald Stanton, and Gregory M. Shaver, Soy-Biodiesel Impact on NOx Emissions and Fuel Economy for Diffusion Dominated Combustion in a Turbo-Diesel Engine Incorporating EGR and Common Rail Fuel Injection, Energy and Fuels, 23 (12), pp 5821–5829, 2009
Chris Satkoski, Greg Shaver, Ranjit More, Peter Meckl, Douglas Memering, Shankar Venkataraman, Jalal Syed, and Jesus Carmon-Valdes, Dynamic Modeling of a Piezoelectric Actuated Fuel Injector, in review: ASME J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, August 2009
Mike Bunce, David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Jereym Koehler, Bernie Davila, Shank Kumar, Phanindra Garimella, Don Stanton, and Greg Shaver, Stock and Optimized Performance and Emissions with 5 and 20% Soy-Biodiesel Blends in a Modern Common Rail Turbo-Diesel Engine, Energy and Fuels, in press, available online Dec. 21, 2009
Chris Satkoski, Greg Shaver, Piezoelectric Fuel Injection - Pulse-to-Pulse Coupling and Flow Rate Estimation, submitted to: ASME/IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Dec. 2009
Conference Proceedings
Anup Kulkarni, Gayatri Adi, Sriram S. Popuri, Gregory M. Shaver, Tim R. Frazier, and Donald W. Stanton, Development and validation of a flexible and computationally efficient whole engine model of a Cummins 2007 turbocharged diesel engine, 2009 SAE International Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, Florence, Italy, June 2009
Anup Kulkarni, Karla Stricker, Angieline Blum, and Gregory M. Shaver, PCCI control authority of a modern diesel engine outfitted with flexible intake valve actuation, 2009 SAE International Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, Florence, Italy, June 2009
Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Mike Bunce, David Snyder, and Gregor M. Shaver, Capturing experimentally observed, biodiesel induced increases of fuel consumption and NOx with a physics-based whole engine model, To appear at the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2009 Spring Technical Conference, Milwaukee, Wisonsin, May 2009
Aman Yadav and Gregory M. Shaver, Comparing the lecture method with case teaching method in a mechanical engineering course, ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX June 2009
David B. Snyder, Gayatri H. Adi, Michael P. Bunce, and Gregory M. Shaver, Uncertainty Analysis of Wideband Oxygen Sensor Based Strategy for Steady-State Biodiesel Blend Estimation, To appear at the 2008 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20-22, 2008
David B. Snyder, Elena G. Washington, Armando P. Indrajuana, and Gregory M. Shaver, Biodiesel Blend Estimation via a Wideband Oxygen Sensor, To appear at the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008
Anup Kulkarni, Gayatri Adi, and Gregory M. Shaver, Modeling Cylinder-to-Cylinder Coupling in Multi-Cylinder HCCI Engines Incorporating Reinduction, 2007 ASME IMECE, IMECE2007-42487, November 2007, Seattle WA
Aman Yadav, Peter Meckl, and Gregory M. Shaver. Comparing the lecture method with case method in a mechanical engineering course. Annual meeting of American Society for Engineering Education, Pittsburg, PA.
Megan Arnold, Aman Yadav, Eric Nauman, and Gregory M Shaver, G. Measuring student perceptions of case-based instruction: Development of a Survey. Annual meeting of American Society for Engineering Education, Pittsburg, PA.
Gregory M. Shaver, Stability Analysis of Residual-Affected HCCI using Convex Optimization, In the Proceedings of the IFAC Advances in Automotive Control Symposium, Summer 2007, Aptos, CA
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle, J. Christian Gerdes, A 2-Input, 2-State Model of Residual-Affected HCCI Engines, 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle, J. Christian Gerdes, Decoupled Control of Combustion Timing and Peak Pressure on an HCCI Engine, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 3871-3876 2005, Portland, Oregon
Matthew Roelle, Gregory M. Shaver, and J. Christian Gerdes, Tackling the Transition: A Multi-mode Combustion Model of SI and HCCI for Mode Transition Control, Proceedings of the 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, California
Gregory M. Shaver, Aleksandar Kojic, J. Christian Gerdes, Jean-Pierre Hathout, and Jasim Ahmed, Contraction and Sum of Squares Analysis of HCCI Engines, In the Proceedings of the 2004 IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Gregory M. Shaver, J. Christian Gerdes and Matthew Roelle, Physics-Based Closed-Loop Control of Phasing, Peak Pressure and Work Output in HCCI Engines Utilizing Variable Valve Actuation, In the Proceeding of the American Control Conference, 2004, Pages 150-155, Denver, Co.
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew Roelle and J. Christian Gerdes, Modeling Cycle-to-Cycle Coupling in HCCI Engines Utilizing Variable Valve Actuation, In the Proceedings of the 1st IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control, 2004, Pages 244-249, Salerno, Italy
Gregory M. Shaver and J. Christian Gerdes, Cycle-to-cycle control of HCCI Engines, In the Proceeding of the 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2003-41966, Washington D.C.
Gregory M. Shaver, J. Christian Gerdes, Parag Jain and P.A. Caton and C.F. Edwards, Modeling for Control of HCCI Engines. In the Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2003, Pages 749-754, Denver
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Selected Invited Talks
"From Physics-based Modeling & Control of HCCI to Physiology-based Modeling & Control of Human Disease" Stanford University, October 14th, 2005 ME201 Seminar: Introduction to research in mechanical engineering & strategies for getting involved. Audience M.S. students and upper-division undergraduates
"Physics-based Modeling and Control of HCCI Engines" Center for Automotive Research (CAR), The Ohio State University
Teaching
ME 365 - Systems Measurement - Fall '06 Professional Service Associate Editor for Control Engineering Practice (CEP), a journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) NSF Panel Reviewer, Summer 2008 ASME Fuels Program Peer Review Panel Member for U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Feb. 2009
ME 375 - System Modeling and Analysis - Spring '10, Spring '08, Fall '07, Spring '07
ME 475 - Automotic Control Design - Spring '09, Fall '08
ME 575 - Theory and Design of Control Systems - Fall '09
Community/Campus Engagement
Marrow Donor (Video/Interview) - City of Hope, Spring 2007
Marrow Donor (Article) - City of Hope, Spring 2007
Faculty advisor, Phi Chapter of Theta Tau Engineering Fraternity - Organizer of Local and National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Competitions
Purdue report: Switching to biodiesel benefits Indianapolis buses, 8/21/2008
In Gas-Powered World, Ethanol Stirs Complaints (New York Times), 7/26/2008
Purdue's Herrick Labs turning 50, eyes future expansion, 7/2/2008
WSBT (South Bend, IN) Radio Interview, 6/1/2007
'Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption', Purdue Press, 5/8/2007
Herrick Labs Newletter, Spring 2007
Greater Lafayette Citybus Newsletter, Spring 2007
Purdue ME Impact, Winter 2006-07
2006 Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award (for best paper pulished in the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control)
Article: Gifts to Benefit Mechanical Engineering, Journal & Courier 9/16/2006
Physics-Based Modeling and Control of Residual-Affected HCCI Engines Using Variable Valve Actuation, September 16th 2005
Ph.D. Defense, May 6th 2005