• Instructional Associate Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution at McAllen
  • Multidisciplinary Engineering Technology
Ivan Rodriguez

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University – 2017
  • M.S., Electronics Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México – 2009
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México – 2009

Research Interests

    • PID control design 
    • Robust control
    • Multivariable control
    • Control design based on frequency response data
    • Control design in renewable energy applications

Awards & Honors

  • Dissertation Fellowship, Texas A&M University - 2015
  • Ph.D. Scholarship, CONACYT, México - 2010

Selected Publications

  • I. Díaz-Rodríguez, S. Han, S.P. Bhattacharyya, "Analytical Design of PID Controllers," DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18228-1, Springer International Publishing, 2019
  • I. Díaz-Rodríguez, S. Han, S. P. Bhattacharyya, "Stability Margin Based Design of Multivariable Controllers," 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Hawaii, USA, August 27-30, 2017
  • I. Díaz-Rodríguez, S. Han, K. Lee, S. P. Bhattacharyya, "Advanced Tuning for Ziegler-Nichols Plants," 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2017), Toulouse, France, July 9-14, 2017
  • I. Díaz-Rodríguez, S.P. Bhattacharyya, "PI Controller Design in the Achievable Gain-Phase Margin Plane,” 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 12-14, 2016
  • I. Díaz-Rodríguez, S.P. Bhattacharyya, “Modern Design of Classical Controllers: Digital PI Controllers,” Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2015 March 17-19, Seville, Spain, 2015