Bruno Korst
Electrical Engineer - FEI
Master of Engineering (with Thesis) - Electrical - Carleton
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science - Calgary
Specialist (MBA) in Marketing - FGV
Professional Designations:
Positions Held
2021 - Present - Assistant Professor - Teaching Stream - ECE, University of Toronto
2017 - 2021 - Director, Teaching Labs - ECE, University of Toronto
2007 - 2017 - Manager, Hardware Teaching Labs Group - ECE, University of Toronto
2002 - 2007 - Communications Lab Engineer - ECE, University of Toronto
2000 - 2002 - Engineer - Soma Networks, Toronto
1998 - 2000 - Assistant (Substitute) Professor - Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
1996 - 1998 - Acoustics Design Engineer - Nortel Networks, Calgary
1992 - 1996 - Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant - Carleton University, Ottawa
1990 - 1991 - Assistant Engineer - Eletrônica Palmer, Ind. e Com. Ltda - São Paulo, Brazil.
Courses Taught
ECE342 - Computer Hardware - ECE - University of Toronto, 2021 (online)
ECE241 - Digital Systems - ECE - University of Toronto, 2019, 2021
APS105 - C Programming - ECE - University of Toronto, 2014 - 2020
ECE496 - Design Project - Administrator, ECE - University of Toronto, 2008 - 2014
APS112 - Engineering Strategies and Practices - FASE 1st Year Office - University of Toronto, 2006 - 2019
Circuits I and II - University of Brasília, 1998 - 2000
Training
Ph.D. Candidate (part-time), Cognitive Neuroscience -
Smilek Lab -
Dept. of Psychology, University of Waterloo - ongoing
Robot Programming I and II, Safe Operation - Kuka Robotics, 2019/2020
APS1003 - Professional Education and Instruction (Dr. Susan McCahan - graduate course on education) - Summer, 2015
Project Management - May 2011, ODLC, UofT
Financial Management - Nov 2008, ODLC, UofT
Budgeting: Planning and Forecasting - Dec 2008, ODLC, UofT
Mentoring Partnership Programme - Mentor: Louis Charpentier, Secretary of the Governing Council - 2008, ODLC, UofT
Advancing Into Management Programme - June 2004, ODLC, UofT
Awards
2016 Emerging Leader Award, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering, University of Toronto.
2012 Excellence Through Innovation Award, University of Toronto.
2011 Excellence Through Innovation Award, University of Toronto.
2011
Innovation Award, from the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering of the University of Toronto.
2009 Gordon Slemon Award, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Toronto,
for excellence in the teaching of design (first time awarded to staff member).
Publications, Conference Presentations:
Is performance on tests affected by the difficulty of the first question and an informational message
about the benefits of the 'testing effect'?
Authors: Bruno Korst, Dan Wolkzuk, Dan Smilek
2022 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 26-29, 2022.
Engineering Education at the University of Toronto
Authors: Susan McCahan, Jason Bazylak, David Beach, Greg Evans, Jason Foster, Bryan Karney, Penny Kinnear,
Bruno Korst, Lisa Romkey, Patricia Sheridan, Micah Stickel, Chirag Variawa, Peter Weiss
4th Annual CEEA/ACEG Conference
Montreal, QC, Canada, 2013
Engineering with Electricity and Magnetism: A Guided-Inquiry Exercise for High-School Students to Enhance
Understanding of Faraday's and Lenz's Laws
Authors: Micah Stickel and Bruno Korst
118th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Paper 2171
Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 26-29, 2011.
Multimedia Pre-Lab Training and Testing
Author: Bruno Korst
Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
Canadian Design Engineering Network Meeting - McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, 2009
New Communications Curriculum With TI DSP Hardware at the University of Toronto
Author: Bruno Korst
Texas Instruments Developers' Conference
Education Track -- 50 minute presentation with demo.
Dallas, TX, 2006.
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Subjective Evaluation of Different Error Correction Schemes
for Application With a 900 MHz Frequency Hopper Communication System
Authors: Kimberly Braaten, Dean Foster, Bruno Korst-Fagundes and Haoye Shen
Canadian Acoustics / Acoustique Canadienne, 27(1) 29-34 (1999).
Acoustical Equalization With the Condition Number
Authors: Bruno Korst-Fagundes, June Xie and Martin Snelgrove
38th IEEE MWSCAS, 1995
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here to visualize or save a copy of this paper.
Referenced by P. Y. Wang and S. F. Hsieh in "Virtual loudspeakers-based Multichannel
Sound System", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
New York, 1997
Master's Thesis:
Acoustical Equalization at Multiple Listening Positions
Author: Bruno Korst-Fagundes
Thesis defended and accepted without corrections ("as is") at
Carleton University, for the degree of Master of Engineering - Electrical.
( Department of Electronics ), Ottawa, Canada, 1995
National Library of Canada, ISBN 0612089789, Canadiana#962116300
Abstract
This thesis presents an entirely new approach for the acoustical equalization of a room
at multiple listening positions. The technique makes use of a mathematical tool called the
condition number to systematically identify and deal with frequencies that impose difficulties
to the inversion of a matrix of room transfer functions. For problematic frequencies, a new
inverse of the transfer function matrix is calculated to be used in conjunction with a set of
gains, in order to achieve a very close approximation of the direct inverse of such matrix. This
thesis presents results from data collected in a car, an proposes a real-time implementation of
a room equalizer.
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here to visualize or save a copy of this thesis.
- Referenced by Devantier, Allan and Welti, Todd S. in "In-Room Low Frequency Optimization"
Audio Engineering Society 115th Convention (September 2003), Preprint #5942
- Referenced as earliest known work
on multi sub-woofer optimization.
Membership
Professional Engineers Ontario (since 2006) -- www.peo.on.ca
Senior Member - IEEE (since 2008) -- ieee.org
ASEE (since 2008) -- asee.org
Contributions to Education
Design of Laboratory Experiments (among others)
ECE316 - On Instruments
ECE316 - Introduction to the Workstation
ECE316 - Amplitude Modulation
ECE316 - Frequency Modulation
ECE316 - Noise in AM and FM
ECE316 - Pulse Code Modulation
ECE417 - Non-Uniform Pulse Code Modulation
ECE417 - Noiseless and Noisy Pulse Transmission
ECE417 - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
ECE417 - Error Control Codes
ECE431 - Sampling and Quantization
ECE431 - The Art of Placing Poles and Zeros
ECE431 - Fast Fourier Transform
ECE431 - Digital Filter Design
ECE362 - Quadrature Mirror Filters
ECE464 - The Radio Frequency Spectrum
ECE464 - Delay Spread
ECE464 - Doppler Spread
ECE464 - Antenna Diversity
Supplement - On Simulink and the FFT
ECE1756 - Exploring DSP Performance
Engineering Instructional Innovation Program (EIIP) - 2015/2016
Authors: Dr. Raymond Kwong, Dr. Stark Draper, Bruno Korst - Revision of
Electrical Engineering ECE216: Signals and Systems. Project approved and funded by the Dean,
Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering. Participation: design of new experiments, guidance to TAs and
monitoring during the deployment of these new experiments, providing advice to professors in the process.
Secondment at Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering (summer 2010)
Responsible for the management of a faculty-wide project to implement an online safety training tool. The work
involved the assessment the needs of all departments and institutes, plan and negotiate network infrastructure,
permanent communication with the developer, testing and presentations to all departments. Reported to the
Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering. This project was awarded the 2011 Innovation Award from the Faculty.
ECE496 Projects Supervised
2012/2013
Two Dimensional Input Device Via Acoustic Localization (student proposed)
2011/2012
A Remote Application for a Robotic Arm (student proposed)
Redefining the Modular Synthesizer (student proposed)
Android Application for Image Recognition on the Game "SET" (student proposed)
2010/2011
Remotely Controlled Vehicle (student proposed)
Autonomous Snake Pit (student proposed)
Brain Wave Alarm Clock (student proposed)
2009/2010
Cardiac Rehab Monitor
An iPod/iPhone Application for Cardiac Rehabilitation
Holter iPod
Remote Monitoring of Multiple Vital Signals (student proposed)
2008/2009
Multipoint Energy-Efficient Wireless PA System
Volunteer work within the Faculty
Supervisor for Science Without Borders Programme - 2014, 2015, 2016
Faculty Joint Health and Safety Committee (co-chair up to 2014)
ECE Health and Safety Committee (member, Co-chair up to 2014)
ECE Student-Staff Committee
Point of contact for the Faculty Online Safety Training System
Paper Reviewer
International Journal of Engineering Education.
2011 ASEE
Annual Conference and Exposition, College Industry Partnership Division, June 26-29, 2011, BC, Canada.
2010 ASEE
Annual Conference and Exposition, June 20-23, Louisville, KY.
39th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in
Education Conference, October 18-21, 2009, San Antonio, TX.
38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in
Education Conference, October 22-25, 2008, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Proposals:
Web-Based Safety Training System For Educational Laboratories (2008)
Grant from the University of Toronto Instructional Technology Courseware Development Fund 2008 Competition.
Presented on the
2009 Innovative Teaching and Technology Event, University of Toronto.
Simulation Environment For Electronic Warfare Instruction (1999)
In collaboration between the University of Brasília and the Centro Integrado de Guerra Eletrônica, Brasília, DF.
Other Professional Work
Director, Korst Consulting - Market Development in Latin America, 2012-2017
Work done as contract for Kapik Integration
Language Training
Portuguese - Elementary School, High School and University (Undergrad and Grad levels)
English - ESL Graduate - School of Continuing Studies, UofT, 1992
Spanish - Advanced Spanish - University of Calgary, 1998
French - French Certificate - School of Continuing Studies, UofT, 2007
Farsi - Levels I, II, III and IV - School of Continuing Studies, UofT, 2010
Estonian - Introductory - Ottawa Eesti Kool, 1994
Volunteer Work, Present and Past
Lutheran Church - Canada, Student Loan Committee Chair, 2006 - 2009, Seminary Board of Regents, 2011 - present
Toronto General Hospital - Cardiac Unit, Post-Operative Ward Visiting Volunteer, 2008 - 2010
Toronto Police - 53 Division, Auxiliary Police Constable, 2002-2005
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