José Oscar Mur-Miranda
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

(781)292-2544
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Before coming to Olin, Dr. Mur-Miranda was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón Campus. Prior to that, he was a research consultant in energy harvesting systems at the Centre Nacional de Microelectrònica in Barcelona, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2004, with a dissertation on electrostatic vibration-to-electric energy conversion under Prof. Jeffrey H. Lang. He earned a Master degree in 1998 and a B.S. degree in 1995 from MIT, in electrical engineering.

Dr. Mur-Miranda has been actively involved in teaching since 1995, while still an undergraduate. He has taught courses in Electronic Systems, Electric Circuits, Electronic Devices, Communications, Control and Signal Processing, and Fields, Forces, and Motion. He has also taught Physics to incoming freshmen in MIT's Interphase summer program. He served in the Professional Education Policy Committee of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. Dr. Mur-Miranda is passionate about the welfare of students both inside and outside the classroom. His teaching style has been recognized by his students and peers as effective and engaging.

Dr. Mur-Miranda has designed and implemented industrial process control and automation systems for various pharmaceutical companies. His electrostatic vibration energy harvester is the first published design of its kind in the literature. His current research interests lie in the areas of energy harvesting and MEMS design, focusing on electromechanic energy transduction, ultra-low-power electronics and fault-resistant networks.

Dr. Mur-Miranda is a proud Catalonian born in Barcelona, Spain in December 8th of 1972, from a Puerto Rican mother and a Spanish father from Aragón. He was raised between Spain and Puerto Rico until he became an adopted Bostonian in 1990. He will only answer to Oscar or José Oscar or even to J.O., but never to José, and believes in laughing and smiling all the time.
 
 
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