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

B.S. Purdue, '00
M.S. Stanford, '04
Ph.D. Stanford, '05

Interests

• Modeling, design & control of advanced combustion processes
• Powertrain control strategies that allow the efficient and clean use of conventional fuels, coal-derived fuels and biofuels

More detailed team and project info

Biosketch

Research Team

Gayatri Adi - MSME, PhD

Mike Bunce - MSME

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

Journal Publications & Book Chapters

Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle and J. Christian Gerdes, Modeling Cycle-to-Cycle Coupling and Mode Transition in HCCI Engines with Variable Valve Actuation, IFAC Journal on Control Engineering Practice (CEP), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 213-222, 2006

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

Aman Yadav, Gregory M. Shaver, and Peter Meckl, Lessons learned: Implementing the case teaching method in a mechanical engineering course, in review: The Journal of Engineering Education, 2008

David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Mike Bunce, and Gregory M. Shaver, Biodiesel Blend Estimation via a Wideband Oxygen Sensor, to appear in: The ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, March. 2008

David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Mike Bunce, Chris Satkoski, and Gregory M. Shaver, Fuel Blend Fraction Estimation for Fuel-Flexible Combustion Control: Uncertainty Analysis, under review: 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, Sept. 2008

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, to appear in: The ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Sept. 2008

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

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, To appear at the 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,, To appear at the 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, To appear at the 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. Paper accepted at the 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. Paper accepted at the 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

Research Sponsors

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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

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

Teaching

ME 475 - Automatic Control Systems

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