Faculty Member List
Nancy Miller, Ph.D.
Electronics Engineering Technology Program Director, Nancy Miller, PhD received her Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering with a specialty in control systems from the University of New Mexico. She also holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and a Master of Science in Applied Physics from Texas Tech University. Dr. Miller brings with her a mixture of management, education, and high tech research and development experience. As a civilian employee of the Air Force, she led a research program investigating telescope alignment and control including a novel neural network technique. This was followed by a position as the project manager for the development of the adaptive optics and control systems for a 3.67m telescope in Hawaii in which she developed a new design methodology for adaptive optics systems specification. She served as the Chair of the Engineering Department for Sedaya College in Malaysia, and developed the curriculum for several engineering programs with UK, Canadian, and Australian partners, as well as developed a laboratory program with an emphasis on design projects. Prior to coming to Grantham, Dr. Miller was on staff at the Hebrew University, developing and teaching laboratory courses in digital control systems and digital signal processing. Dr. Miller has taught part-time at Texas Tech and New Mexico Tech, published and presented papers in the area of telescope control systems, and received several teaching and scholastic awards, including the J. Fred Bucy Scholarship.
