I believe strongly in the primacy of the quality of the student-teacher relationship, its mutually precious intellectual and emotional rewards, and its key role in the attainment of educational objectives such as the development of the student's critical thinking, the capacity for self-exploration, and independence of judgment. Furthermore, at WPI both undergraduate and graduate curricula are creatively designed to highlight the many nuanced forms and features of the inherently complex, value conflict-laden and contextually rich interaction between science, technology, culture, and society. As a result, the prospect of a singular educational experience is offered to our students as they prepare themselves to responsibly and confidently deal with the great problems of our time.
Scholarly Work
N. Kazantzis, 2004, " A New Approach to the Zero Dynamics Assignment Problem for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems Using Functional Equations", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 51, pp. 311-324. 2004
M. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, 2004, " Compensation of Spatio-temporally Varying Disturbances for Nonlinear Transport Processes Via Actuator Scheduling ", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 14, pp. 181-197. 2004
C. Kravaris, M. Niemiec and N. Kazantzis, 2004, " Singular PDEs and the Assignment of Zero Dynamics in Nonlinear Systems", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 51, pp. 67-77. 2004
M. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, 2004, "A New Moving Actuator Activation Policy for Performance Enhancement of Controlled Diffusion Processes", Automatica, vol. 40, pp. 415-421. 2004
N. Kazantzis, 2003, " Invariance Inducing Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems ", Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 13, pp. 579-601. 2003
M. Xiao, N. Kazantzis, C. Kravaris and A. J. Krener, 2003, Nonlinear Discrete-Time Observer Design With Linearizable Error Dynamics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, pp. 622-626 2003
National Science Foundation