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Rob became director of the Instrumentation Design Laboratory in 2018. Recent work at the IDL has concentrated on microprocessor control of instruments, programmable logic, radio frequency circuits and printed circuit board (PCB) design. His skill with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is well appreciated on the campus. Rob received his Bachelor of Science (1991) and Master of Science (1993) in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University. Christian received a Masters of Science degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) in Automation Engineering in 2009 from the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences, Weis, Austria, and a Master of Science in Biomimetics in Energy Systems in 2012 from the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria. Ken was director of the Instrumentation Design Laboratory from 1981 to 2018. He is now in retirement (as of January 6, 2019). He has led the development of many new custom instruments and collaborated with researchers in many areas at KU and around the world. Ken received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1975.
