Eric Durant

Current

• Program Director, Computer Engineering; Associate Professor, EECS Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering
• DSP Research Engineer at Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

Past

• Consultant at Adapted Wave Technologies
• Advanced Research Team Member at Johnson Controls, Inc.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - School of Business Administration
• University of Michigan
• University of Michigan

• Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Greenfield High School

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Eric Durant’s Summary

Program director for computer engineering major. Associate Professor teaching and performing academic advising in computer and software engineering. Active in various engineering outreach activities involving high school students. Consultant with experience in audio processing, hearing aid algorithms, Pocket PC software development, audio coding, RFID firmware, and fast transforms. Goals include being an outstanding educator and staying technically relevant by continuing consulting work with an emphasis on algorithm development and testing.

Eric Durant’s Specialties:

Embedded system development, digital signal processing, audio processing, image processing, hearing aid algorithms, genetic algorithms

Eric Durant’s Experience

• Program Director, Computer Engineering; Associate Professor, EECS Department

  Milwaukee School of Engineering

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  March 2002 — Present (7 years 9 months)

  As Program Director (since 9/2006): Develop and maintain industrial contacts, work with faculty to enhance the curriculum and the student experience, administer program policies. As Associate Professor (promoted 7/2008): Teach in the Computer Engineering (CE) and Software Engineering (SE) programs

• DSP Research Engineer

  Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

  (Medical Devices industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  * developed DSP beamforming algorithms to focus hearing aids on sounds of interest
  * developed robust perceptual rank inferencing algorithm (patent application pending)
  * designed and implemented experiments and infrastructure for genetic algorithm based parametric fitting of hearing aids using both custom hearing aid hardware and Pocket PC (eVc/MFC and .NET 2.0 Compact Framework)
  * developed and refined perceptual genetic algorithm (patent pending)
  * extensive recent applications of MATLAB and C#
  * extensive past experience in C++, C, and Motorola 56k assembly

Eric Durant’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - School of Business Administration

  EMBA , Business , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

• University of Michigan

  PhD , Electrical Engineering , August 1998 — January 2002

  Dissertation: Hearing Aid Fitting with Genetic Algorithms
  Advisor: Gregory H. Wakefield, PhD

• University of Michigan

  MSE , Electrical Engineering , August 1998 — December 1999

  Major / Minor: Signal Processing / Communications

• Milwaukee School of Engineering

  BS , Electrical Engineering , 1993 — 1998

  Recipient of the 1997 Fred F. Loock Outstanding Student Award
  Co-recipient of the 1998 Alumni Association Student Achievement Award
  Minor: Management Systems
  Graduated with High Honors

  Activities and Societies:

  Ingenium student newspaper (5 years), Business Manager and Webmaster

• Milwaukee School of Engineering

  BS , Computer Engineering , 1993 — 1998

• Greenfield High School

  Diploma , College Prepatory , 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Eric Durant’s Groups:

IEEE Senior Member, ASEE, MSOE Alumni Association Board, Alumni Association of University of Michigan Club of Milwaukee Board

•    Link Up Milwaukee
•    University of Michigan Alumni
•    MSOE Alums, Students, Faculty, and Staff
•    Johnson Controls Global Alumni
•    University of Michigan EECS Alumni Society