Michael Jarabek | Faculty & staff bios

Name	Michael Jarabek
School	School of Engineering and Information Technology
Program	Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic Systems Engineering
Academic and Professional Designations	B. Eng. McMaster University M. Eng. McMaster University P. Eng. (Professional Engineers Ontario)
Title	Professor
Courses Taught	EECE72395 Embedded Systems Hardware EECE72545 Engineering Project IV EECE8010 Embedded Systems Hardware Design EECE8020 Reconfigurable Systems Principles EECE8020 Reconfigurable Systems Principles
Areas of Expertise & Interest	Embedded Systems, Hardware and Software. Electronic Design, Analog and Digital. 2G, 3G, and 4G Wireless protocols and physical layer.
Industry Experience, Professional Currency Activities	2G, 3G, 4G Layer 1 radio stack development. Vehicle Telematics firmware development. Turn-key board level cost reduction experience.
Major Research Projects, Scholarly Activities, and/or Publications	Adaptive Visual Servoing Using a Dynamic Feature Sensitivity Matrix. Paper published at the 1998 Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) conference. Robot Position Servoing Using Visual Gap Measurement. Paper published at the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, St. Paul Minnesota, May 18-20, 1998. US Patent: US8213974, System and method for sequencing radio items for a multi-downlink multi carrier receiver.
Additional Information	I am a fluent French-speaking hardware and software engineer with more than 25 years of relevant experience. My studies and hobbies have given me a broad range of skills enabling constructive involvement in many varied projects. My passion is for developing systems that use existing technology in new and interesting ways. I enjoy teaching others in the art and science of the design process from first principles to working design.