Office Address Home Address
Kansas State University 10255 Highway 13
2077 Rathbone Hall, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engg. Manhattan, KS 66502
Manhattan, KS 66506-5204 Phone: (785) 537-1058
Phone: (785) 532-4663; FAX: (785) 532-1188 Email: lenhert@ksu.edu
PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth: November 25, 1934 Health: Good
Marital Status: Married; Two grown sons Hobbies: Woodworking, farm work
EDUCATION REGISTRATION
B.S. - E.E. Kansas State University, 1956 Registered Professional Engineer
M.S. - E.E. Syracuse University, 1958 Kansas #6566 since Jan, 1973
Ph.D. - E.E. University of New Mexico, 1966
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1966 - Present, Professor, Kansas State University
1962 - 1966, Teaching and Research Associate, University of New Mexico
CLASSES TAUGHT RECENTLY
EECE 533 Real-Time Electronics - Designed in 2000 taught 3 times
EECE 590 Seminar - Taught occasionally
EECE 631 Microcomputer System Design - Designed in 1975 - Continually update -Teach most semesters till 2005
EECE 633 Real-Time Embedded Systems -Designed in 2000 - Continually update - Teach every time offered
EECE 733 Real-Time Embedded Systems Design Designed in 2000 - Continually update - Teach every time offered
EECE 746 Fault Diagnosis in Digital Systems - Teach whenever number of students adequate
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Summers 1991 to 2000, Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector, Austin, TX, Test Consultant
Sabbatical Leave - Area of Digital Testing, 1983-1984
Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR - Digital Board Self-Test; Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, OR - Board and System Testing; Motorola Inc., Austin, TX - Digital Chip Testing; Delco Electronics, Oak Creek, WI - High Volume Board Test
Summers 1977 and 1955, The Boeing Company, Wichita, KS.
Summers 1968, 1969, and 1970, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
1960-1962, The Dikewood Corporation, Albuquerque, NM.
1958-1960, U.S. Air Force Special Weapons Center, Albuquerque, NM.
1956-1958, General Electric Company, Syracuse, NY.
RECENT RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1999 - 2003, NSF, Real-Time Embedded Systems Combined Research and Curriculum Development.
1990 - 1992, Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, The development of a microprocessor board with boundary scan and built-in self-test.
1978 - 1990, Sandia National Laboratories, Multiple contracts regarding hardware evaluation and implementation of A/D converters and various microprocessor systems.
1988 - 2001, Webmaster, IEEE Test Technology Technical Committee, Newsletter Editor- IEEE Design & Test
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Wei, Jiantao, Zhang, Naiqian, Lenhert, Donald, Han, Shufeng, "An Overview and Comparison of Time-Triggered Protocols for X-By-Wire Applications", Paper 053090, 2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting, Tampa, FL 17-20, July 2005.
J. Wei, N. Zhang, N. Wang, D. Lenhert, M. Neilsen, M. Mizuno, and G. Singh, " A Structural and Modular Approach to Implement Communication Interface for Tractor Electronics Communication Using CAN Kingdom",ASAE Paper No. 02-1178, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, ASAE 2002 Annual International Meeting, July 28-31, 2002.
M. Mizuno, D. Lenhert, M. Neilsen, G. Singh, N. Zhang, and A. Gross, "A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Teaching at Kansas State", In Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1320, Montreal, Quebec, 2002.
M.L. Neilsen, D.H. Lenhert, M. Mizuno, G. Singh, N. Zhang, and A.B. Gross, "An interdisciplinary curriculum on real-time embedded systems", In Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1526, Montreal, Quebec, 2002.
M. Mizuno, G. Singh, M.L. Neilsen, D.H. Lenhert, N. Zhang, and A.B. Gross, "An invariant pattern-based approach to develop concurrent programs", In Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1520, Montreal, Quebec, 2002.
G. Singh, M. Mizuno, M. Neilsen, D. Lenhert, N. Zhang, and A. Gross, "Evaluating the impact of real-time systems theory course on a multidisciplinary embedded systems curriculum", In Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, 2002.
PATENTS
1. ALU-Based Programmable MISR/Pseudorandom Generator for Self-Test. No. 5416783, Granted 5/16/95