Chathan Cooke, Professor

Chathan Cooke, ScD

Professor
Department of Engineering

 

 

 

 

Phone: 617.573.8565
Fax: 617.367.5063
Email: ccooke@suffolk.edu
Office: Archer Building, Rm. 310

 

Education

  • ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research Interests

  • Electronic materials
  • Sensors and sensor networks

Employment

Parallel appointments at MIT and Suffolk, 2004-present
Lecturer, M.I.T (9 different courses), 1973-present
Founder, Predictive Power Co., 2000-2004
High Voltage Research Lab, M.I.T., 1964-present
GenRad, 1963-1964
Acoustic Research, 1961-1962
Consulting and Technical Expert to over 30 agencies and firms

 

Publications

  1. “In-Service Detection of Electrical Partial Discharge Events” w/ T. Cargol, and S. Skinner. EPRI Conference on Substation Diagnostics, New Orleans, Feb. 2004. 
  2. “Experimental Study and Simulation of Space Charge Stimulated Discharge” w/  M. Noskov, A. Malinovski, K. Wright, and A.J. Schwab; Journal Appl. Physics, Vol. 92, No. 9, pp4926-4934, Nov. 2002. 
  3. “Charge Accumulation and Dynamics Near Insulator-Electrode Interfaces”, 4th Intn'l Conf. on Electric Charge in Solid Insulators, Tours France, Jun-Jul 2001. 
  4. C.M.Cooke. Y.Hoshina, M.Miyashita, Y.Shimizu, “Polarization and Charge Transport in Unfilled Epoxy”, B1-7, Int’nl Symposium. On Electrical Insulation Materials, Kitakyushu, Japan, May 2005

Professional Activities

  • TaSI, Chairman of Suffolk University’s Technology and Science Initiative
  • IEEE Journal of Electrical Insulation - Member of Publication Review Panel
  • CIGRE working group on Gas Insulation - Secretary
  • CIGRE working group on Capacitors
  • CIGRE - U.S. expert Representative on Insulation
  • CIGRE, Covenor, Joint Working Group SC15/33 - Insulation Monitoring & Life Est. High Voltage Workshop - 'Pulse PowerCommittee on Electron Devices; Co-Chairman
  • Institute National de Physique - Select Comite Technique Vivitron 

Courses Taught at Suffolk University

Circuit Theory I
Electronic Devices II