Dr. Sheryl Howard  

Assistant Professor
Office: Room 261, Building 69, South Campus
Northern Arizona University
PO Box 15600
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5600
Phone: 928-523-3504
FAX: 928-523-2300
Email: sheryl.howard@nau.edu
Personal website:  http://www2.nau.edu/~sh295/index.html

Educational background

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Univesity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2007
ME, Electrical Engineering, University of Utah, 1988
BS, Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, University of Utah, 1984

Courses taught

EE 490/599 - Error-Correcting Codes
EE 430 - Communications Systems
EE 348 - Signals and Systems
EE 110 - Digital Logic
Link to current courses

Research interests

Error-Correcting Codes (ECC): Iteratively-Decodable Codes
ECC in Wireless Sensor Nets
Stochastic Decoding
Turbo-embedded Synchronization/Estimation

Publications

Publications link 

Professional organizations

IEEE - Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Hobbies/Recreational activities

Hiking
Gardening