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DONALD GALLER, P.E.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 4-131BA
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139

 

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Electrical and electronic  failure analysis.    Power  electronics  and  electric machinery.    Power supplies  and instrumentation for welding and materials processing applications. Computer programming for engineering analysis and control systems. Measurement and signal processing in power electronic applications.

───────────── EDUCATION─────────────

BS in Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University                                                                               1976

MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut                                                                           1979

Graduate Course 3.37 – Welding and Joining, MIT                                                                                       1994

Instructor for Summer Course 3.70 – Welding Power Supplies, MIT                                                 1995

───────────── EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY ─────────────

Research Engineer:                                                                                                                                                             Scanning Electron Microscope Facility , DMSE, MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts         2000 – present

Research Engineer:                                                                                                                                                                Materials Science Welding Lab, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts                                        1995-2000

Project Manager:                                                                                                                                                                                   Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Arlington, Massachusetts                                                           1994-1995

Managing Engineer:                                                                                                                                                                 Failure Analysis Associates, Westborough, Massachusetts                                                    1991-1994

Senior Engineer:                                                                                                                                                                               Failure Analysis Associates, Westborough, Massachusetts                                                    1988 -1991

Senior Engineer:                                                                                                                                                                   Alexander Kusko Inc., Needham Heights, Massachusetts                                                        1979 -1988

 

───────────── EXPERIENCE ─────────────

Patent Investigations

Analysis of electrochemical failure in the flexible circuit connections of Ink-Jet printer cartridges. Reverse engineering of microcomputer programs for taper-cut electrical discharge machining. Demodulation and decoding of RFID tag transmissions.

Measurement of magnetization patterns in small brushless dc motors. Low Level Program testing of computer VGA display technologies.

Failure Analysis

Failure investigation of Solid-State control element for truck-mounted refrigeration equipment.

Aircraft Accident Investigation Handbook for Electronic Hardware prepared for Wright-Patterson AFB Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) analysis of circuit board failures caused by thermal joint stress. Failure analysis of commercial battery charging circuit for consumer appliances.

Investigation of the August 1990 Seaport Substation Outage in New York City for Con-Edison.

Control Systems

Control algorithms for a 4 MW thyristor rectifier for transit vehicle testing. For the DOT/TTC, Pueblo, CO. Microcomputer-based data acquisition and signal processing for railroad track quality analysis.

Design review of 8086-based propulsion control system for BART C-car.

Design of phase locked loop control circuits for line synchronization of 60 Hz UPS. Application of Linear Quadratic Regulator for nonlinear control channels in F100 jet engine.

Power Electronics and Power Conversion

Designed and constructed water-cooled high performance power supplies for welding research. MIT. Wideband power amplifiers using hybrid power op-amps for MHD stirring experiments. MIT. Propulsion system for the Magneplane concept definition study for the National Maglev Initiative. Design review of emergency generators controls at ten Nuclear Power Plants. Transamerica Delaval. Wideband measurement of DC-side harmonics on the BART 1000 V Traction Power System.

───────────── PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS─────────────

Registered Professional Engineer (Electrical): Massachusetts No. 32121

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Member, American Society for Materials

Member, National Fire Protection Association

────── COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE───────────

Over 25 years of experience in programming, engineering computation and hardware-related activities especially in real-time systems applications. Specific programming experience in C, FORTRAN, BASIC and an assortment of classical assembly languages (8088, Z80, PDP-11, 80×86 family).   C programmed embedded microcontroller applications.  Low level hardware control of VGA displays and other subsystems on Personal Computers.  Magnetic field analysis code – Visual Basic. C programmed pulse generation control of welding power supply.   C programmed microcomputer for receiving / transmitting GPS signals in 27 Mhz Radio Control band.

───────────── PUBLICATIONS ─────────────

  1. “Energy Efficient Control of AC Induction Motor-Driven Vehicles”, Proceedings of the 1980 IEEE/IAS Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, October 1980.
  2. “A Fast Response Transistor Current Regulator for Welding Research”, Proceedings of the 1981 IEEE/IAS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 1981. (with J. Converti)
  3. “Potential Use of Extended Speed Range AC Drives for Cranes and Hoists”, Proceedings of the 1982 Control Engineering Conference, Chicago, IL, May 1982. (with A. Kusko)
  4. “Survey of Microprocessors in Industrial Motor Drive Systems”, Proceedings of the 1982 IEEE/IAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 1982. (with A. Kusko)
  5. “Control Means for Minimization of Losses in AC and DC Motor Drives”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Application, July/August 1983. (with A. Kusko)
  6. “Selecting Electric  Motor  Drives  for  the  Chemical  Processing  Industries”,  Chemical  Processing Magazine, September 1986. (with A. Kusko)
  7. “McGraw Hill  Standard  Handbook  for  Electrical  Engineers”  12th  edition,  Section  22  Industrial Electronics, Subsection p22-131.
  8. “The Shocking Truth of Accelerometer Selection”, Machine Design Magazine, July 6, 1989 Issue. (with A. Booth)
  9. “Maintenance of Power Electronic Equipment”, Electrical Construction and Maintenance, October 1989. (with A. Kusko)
  10. “Nonlinear Loading of Static and Rotating Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS),”International Power and Engineering Consultants Conference, Tokyo, Japan, April 1990 (with A. Kusko and S. M. Peeran)
  11. “Output Impedance of PWM UPS Inverters – Feedback versus Filters,” Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics – Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, October 1990 (with A. Kusko and N. Medora)
  12. “Causes of Aircraft Electrical Failures,” National Aerospace Electronics Conference, Dayton, Ohio, May 20-24 1991 (with G. Slenski)
  13. “Improved Rail-Fastener for Stray Current Control,” Proceedings, American Society for Testing and Materials, Symposium on Corrosion Forms and Controls for Infrastructure, San Diego, California, November 1991 (with P. L. Todd)
  14. “Aircraft Accident Investigation  Handbook  for  Electronic  Hardware,”  Proceedings  of  the  1992 Conference of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, Dallas Texas (with G. Slenski).
  15. “Measurement of Permanent Magnet Rotor Magnetization Characteristics of DC Brushless Motors,” Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics – Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, 1992 (with A. Kusko, N. Medora)
  16. “Impact of Source Impedance on the Operation of Power Semiconductor Converters”, May 4, 1993 Meeting of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, Boston Chapter. (with A. Kusko)
  17. “The CRC Press Electrical Engineering Handbook”, Article 61.2 – Motors. 1st Edition. 1993, The CRC Press.
  18. “Magnetic Fields from a Maglev Motor Winding”, May 1993 Maglev Conference, Argonne National Laboratories. (with W. J. Greenberg)
  19. “The CRC Press Electrical Engineering Handbook”, Article 66.2 – Motors. 1997, The CRC Press.
  20. “Electronic Failure Analysis Handbook”, Chapter 15 – Wires and Cables (with G. Slenski), also contributed to Chapter 14 – Printed Wiring Assemblies, Chapter 16 – Switches and Relays, Chapter 18 – Components. McGraw-Hill, Edited by Perry L. Martin, 1999.
  21. “The McGraw-Hill Standard  Handbook  for  Electrical Engineers”,  14th  Edition,  1999.  Section  22. Electronics. Edited by D. G. Fink, H. W. Beaty.
  22. “Fire Safety of Grounded Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing in a Structure Energized by Lightning”, B. Haslam, D. Galler, T. W. Eagar. FireTechnology, February 2016. SpringerLink.
  23. “Cellular immunologic responses to cochlear implantation in the human”, J.B. Nadol, J. O’Malley, B.J. Burgess, D. Galler. Hearing Research, December 2014. Elsevier
  24. “Foreign body response to silicon in cochlear implant electrodes in the human” J. B. Nadol, J. T. O’Malley et al. To be presented at the 150th Annual meeting of the American Otological Society, April 2017.
  25. “Failure of Fractional Horsepower Ventilation Fan Motors” B. Haslam, D. Galler, T. W. Eagar. Fire Technology. First Appearing Online April 9, 2018. Paper publication TBD.