Education:

• PhDEE, University of Kansas, May 1990, Honors
• MSEE, Stanford University, August 1978
• BSEE, Southern Methodist University, December 1976, Highest Honors

Teaching:

• Undergraduate: circuit analysis, signals and systems, communications
• Graduate: random processes, network performance analysis, integrated telecommunication networks, optimization

Service:

• Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, 2000-present
• Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks, 2003 and 2004
• EECS Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs, 2002-present
• Faculty sponsor for Eta Kappa Nu, 1994-present
• Member of EECS Course Scheduling Committee, 1992-present
• Departmental Ambassador to the KU Center for Teaching Excellence, 1997-2003

Research:

• Performance Analysis, Traffic Integration, Congestion Control, Resource Management, Quality of Service for Communication Networks
• Educational Motivation and Assessment

Affiliations:

Memberships:

Honors:

• W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at University of Kansas 2005
• Harry Talley Excellence in Teaching Award, EECS graduating seniors, May 2003
• Sharp Teaching Professor, School of Engineering, 2000-2003
• Ben Dasher Best Paper Award, IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2000
• Visiting Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2000
• Excellence in Teaching Award, KU Center for Teaching Excellence, EECS graduate students, May 1999

Selected Publications:

• D.W. Petr, "Experience with a Multiple-Choice Audience Response System in an Engineering Classroom," Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. S3G-1 to S3G-6, October 2005.
• P. Mani and D.W Petr, "Development and Performance Characterization of Enhanced AODV Routing for CBR and TCP Traffic," Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS’04), 8 pages, May 2004.
• D. W. Petr, "Giving Credit Entices More Students to Check Their Work, But...," Proceedings of IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE'03), pp. T3A-8 to T3A-13, November 2003.
• M.T. Gardner, V.S. Frost, D.W. Petr, "Using Optimization to Achieve Efficient Quality of Service in Voice over IP Networks," Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC’03), pp. 475 to 480, April 2003.
• D. W. Petr, G.K. Vaddi, R.R. Vatte, S. Sreepathi-Komanduri, "Analytic and Simulation Modeling for AAL2 Connection Admission Control," Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Vol. 78, No. 4, pp. 239-248, April 2002.
• Mohammed Hawa and D. W. Petr, "M/G/FQ: Stochastic Analysis of Fair Queueing Systems," Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICN’02), pp. 368-381, August 2002.
• X. Chang and D. W.Petr,"ASurvey of Pricing for Integrated Services Networks," Computer Communications, Vol. 24, No. 18, pp. 1808-1818, December 2001.
• D. W. Petr, "Confidence Scores Measure (and Enhance?) Student Perceptions of Their Work," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 469-476, October 2001.
• Q. Hu and D.W. Petr, "A Predictive Self-Tuning Fuzzy-Logic Feedback Rate Controller," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 697-709, December 2000.

Patents:

• Adaptive Differential PCM Coding, U.S. Patent no. 4,437,08 (1984)
• Digital Code Converter, U.S. Patent no. 4,518,590 (1985)
• Multimode Data Communication System, with J. Neumann, J. B. Sharp, G. W. Schramm, U.S. Patent 4,607,364 (1986)