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Faculty Profile - Bonnie H Ferri

Professor; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
Systems and Controls

Phone: 404.894.3145
Fax: 404.894.4641
Office: VL W204B

TESSAL Center

Biography

Bonnie H. Ferri received the B.S degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1981, the M.S. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1988. She has been on the faculty of Georgia Tech since 1988. She has also worked for Honeywell Inc. as an engineer. She is very active in the recruitment and retention of women in engineering, including middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate level activities.

Dr. Ferri has been very active in the IEEE Control Systems Society. She was elected twice to that society’s Board of Governors, was the program chair for the American Control Conference, and chair of the Control System Society Technical Committee on Education. She has been an associate technical editor for the IEEE Transactions on Education and for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests
  • Embedded control systems
  • Engineering education
  • Real-time computing
Distinctions
  • Management of the largest ECE graduate program in the U.S., approximate enrollment of 1,200 students with over 400 degrees awarded per year (2006-2012)
  • Director of the TESSAL Center that supports Hand-On Learning
  • Georgia Tech Faculty Award: Class of 1934 Outstanding Use of Innovative Education Technology Award, 2011
  • Georgia Tech Women in Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2011
  • Harriet B. Rigas Award from the IEEE Education Society, 2007
  • Georgia Tech ECE Faculty Outreach Award, 2006
  • Women of Distinction Faculty Award, 2005, from the Women's Leadership Conference
  • Women In Engineering's Excellence Faculty Mentoring Award, 2005
  • IEEE Control System Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, 2004
  • Notre Dame Women's Achievement Award, 1996
  • Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 1991, from CETL and Amoco
  • Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award, 1991
  • NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1990

Last revised on April 30, 2013.