Matthew D. Morey
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- 1/2008
I updated the look and feel of the website to a bamboo theme.
- 1/2008
Spring semester has started and I'm unnaturally excited about it. This is my last semester as an undergraduate!!! This semester I'm taking EEL3211 (Power and Power Lab) and FIN3403 (Business Finance); I will also be a TA for Junior Design and an RA for CHREC
- 12/2007
The fall semester is over! I successfully completed my undergraduate honors thesis, senior design project, and some RC research.
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© Matthew D. Morey
© Matthew D. Morey
For a more specific resume that highlights a certain aspect of my experience please contact me.
education - work - research - patents - teaching - leadership - honors - activities
education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Minor in Business Administration
Graduating May 2008
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
GPA: 3.89/4.00 - Summa Cum Laude (Highest Honors)
work
General Electric Energy – Controls COE, Salem, VA
Electrical Engineering New Product Introduction Co-Op
Jun. 2007 - Aug. 2007
- A member of power converters new product development team
- Assisted in the design of high power snubber and analog safety circuits
- Instrumented and tested various controls hardware for 7200 volt power bridges
General Electric Energy – Gas Turbines, Greenville, SC
Electrical Engineering Controls Co-Op
Jan. 2006 – May 2006
- Member of controls fulfillment team responsible for the implementation of software for new high efficiency gas turbines
- Developed and validated controls code and algorithms for more than 50 calculated controls constants
- Researched and analyzed various cost cutting ideas which often saved over $5000 per turbine order
SpinCore Technologies, Inc., Gainesville, FL
Electrical Engineering Intern
Jun. 2005 – Dec. 2005
- Member of team that developed and tested data acquisition and pulse programming PCI board using Altera FPGAs and VHDL, now the company’s flagship product that accounts for 70% of total income
- Implemented versioning source code backup system that increased redundancy by 200%
- Changed the way taxes on component purchases are handled, saving more then $1000 per fiscal year
- Handled 50% of customer technical problems and issues
- Please see my projects page for some examples of the work I did with SpinCore
research
NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), Gainesville, FL
Research Assistant
Aug. 2007 – Present
- A member of Application Case Studies group
- Participated in new reconfigurable computing platform (GiDEL, DRC, Nallatech) research
- Please view this paper for an example of some of the research I have done while a member of CHREC
UF Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Gainesville, FL
Research Assistant
Jan. 2005 – Jun. 2005
- Debugged and developed solutions for nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer failures, reducing downtime by 60%
- Programmed graphical software interfaces for various PCI cards using Java
patents
Pending United States Patent
"Autonomous Mixer For Devices Capable Of Storing And Playing Audio Signals"
teaching
Junior Design (EEL4930), Gainesville, FL
Teaching Assistant (Syllabus)
Jan. 2008 – May 2008
- Assisted over 30 students with understanding the basics of microprocessors, microcontrollers (Freescale 68HC12, Microchip PIC, Atmel AVR, TI MSP430), development tools (CodeVisionAVR, AVR Studio, GCC, Microchip MPLAB), analog hardware design (LTspice, PSpice, OrCad), and PCB design (Protel, Altium Designer, Eagle)
- In charge of Senior / Junior design laboratory
Microprocessor Applications (EEL4744C), Gainesville, FL
Teaching Assistant (Syllabus)
Aug. 2007 – Dec. 2007
- In charge of 2 lab sections (30 students) that covered advanced topics concerning Freescale's 68HC12 microcontroller
- Lectured (lecture notes) when professor was unavailable
- Proctored and graded multiple exams
Introduction to Chemistry (CHM1025), Gainesville, FL
Teaching Assistant
Aug. 2003 – Dec. 2003
- Assisted over 25 students with homework and general chemistry questions; graded over 1000 exams
leadership
General Electric Energy – Gas Turbines, Greenville, SC
Professional Development Chair
Jan. 2006 – May 2006
- Responsible for arranging formal meetings between top level GE Energy executives and over 30 interns
Eta Kappa Nu, Gainesville, FL
Professional Development Officer
Aug. 2006 – May 2007
- Scheduled and executed professional development, career expo, and academic events between members and various professionals
Theta Tau, Gainesville, FL
Webmaster
Jan. 2006 – May 2006
- Re-engineered and maintained the fraternity’s website (http://www.ufthetatau.org); developed a restricted members area for several hundred members using PHP and MySQL
Academic Chair
Dec. 2004 – Dec. 2005
- Organized and digitized the fraternity’s 3000 page test bank
Professional Development Chair
Jan. 2006 – May 2006
- Scheduled and executed professional development, career expo, and academic events between members and various professionals
honors
Bob "Gator" Handley Scholarship recipient
Fall 2007
Merwin J. Larsen Scholarship recipient
2007-2008
Eta Kappa Nu (ΗΚΝ) – Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society
Aug. 2005 – Present
Tau Beta Pi (ΤΒΠ) – National Engineering Honor Society
Jan. 2004 – Present
activities
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Jan. 2004 - Present
Theta Tau (ΘΤ) - Professional Engineering Fraternity
Jan. 2004 - Present