Dr. Ian Gravagne
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Education
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, Clemson University
- MS, Electrical Engineering, Clemson University
- BS, Electrical Engineering, Rice University
Research Specialization: Composite Material Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT/NDE), Robotics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
Bio
Ian Gravagne has served on the faculty of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering since 2002. His early career focused on building some the key fundamental theory of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales – a rigorous generalization of continuous-time differential equations and the discrete-time difference equations that undergird much of the modern theory of engineering. This work was repeatedly funded by the National Science Foundation.
In 2016-17, Dr. Gravagne took a full year sabbatical to work at Sandia National Laboratories, where he led a team of engineers to design and test a U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored prototype wind turbine system using real time synchrophasor feedback to produce stabilizing inputs to the power grid.
Currently, Dr. Gravagne works in the Baylor Scientific Innovations in Complex Engineered Materials (SIC ’EM) lab on novel methods for electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation and testing (NDE/NDT) of carbon fiber laminates and fused deposition semi-conductive material systems.
Dr. Gravagne has been recognized twice with the BU Outstanding Professor for Scholarship award. Previously, he was also given the Achievement Award for New Scholars in Mathematics, Physical Science and Engineering by the Council of Southern Graduate Schools and recognized as a Big XII Rising Star. In 2011, Dr. Gravagne and his family began a 5-year term as faculty-in-residence at Baylor, where he served as the founding faculty steward for Teal Residential College. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Dr. Gravagne earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from Clemson University, and his B.S.E.E. from Rice University. A lifelong musician, he plays piano every Sunday at church, and viola in the Waco Symphony. He currently lives north of Waco raising kids, cows, chickens, snakes, scorpions and mesquite trees.