Jan van Deventer

Jan van Deventer received his B.S. degree in Physics from Hope College, Holland, MI in 1987 and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from Luleå University of Technology.

His is currently a senior lecturer at Luleå University of Technology and heads the EISLAB division covering areas of Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering.

Jan van Deventer received his B.S. degree in Physics from Hope College, Holland, MI in 1987 and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from Luleå University of Technology.

His is currently a senior lecturer at Luleå University of Technology and heads the EISLAB division covering areas of Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering.

Jan van Deventer received his B.S. degree in Physics from Hope College, Holland, MI in 1987 and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from Luleå University of Technology.

His is currently a senior lecturer at Luleå University of Technology and heads the EISLAB division covering areas of Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering.

Between his M.Sc. and his Ph.D., Jan van Deventer worked in the automotive industry for Kelsey-Hayes (now TRW) developing safety systems in the U.S., Europe and Japan. He came to Norhern Sweden to develop anti-lock braking systems in the 1990's. This combination of industrial and academic experiences enables him to bring together vehicle testing and academic research. The upshot of which is that Dr. van Deventer is involved in the research Center for Automotive System Technologies and Testing (CASTT, www.ltu.se/automotive).

Dr. van Deventer’s main research interest are ultrasonic flow meters and more specifically ultrasonic mass flow meters by incorporating ultrasonic densitometers into the ultrasonic probes of the transit time flow meters. These have application in district heating and the research conducted by his PhD students are sponsored by is the District Heating Association of Sweden.

Dr van Deventer has taught measurement technologies, for several years. He currently teaches electronic systems for automotive applications and supervises the final project course in electronics for master’s students. This has resulted in him leading Luleå University of Technology to win consecutively the “most innovative electronic” prize at the international Formula Student competition of the Formula SAE.

Dr. van Deventer is a Dutch citizen with Afghan, Danish and Dutch origins and a Mongol middle name. He was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco before continuing his education in Aix-en-Provence, France. He finished High School at a boarding school on Long Island, New York. You can follow to some of the places where he lived with Google Earth and the linked downloadable file.

If you would prefer to follow his current whereabouts, you can surf onto EISLAB’s network sensor web page. His backpack has a wireless sensor network developed from the research at EISLAB. Currently 2 nodes are presents, one with a GPS function while the other measure temperature. Each node is a complete web server. They communicate between themselves using Bluetooth as well as to his cellular phone that transmits the information using a GPRS modem.