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    School of Engineering
    5101 Jordan Road
    Erie, PA  16563-1701

    Office: REDC 169
    Phone: (814) 898-6988
    Fax: (814) 898-6125
    Email: coulston@psu.edu

Chris S. Coulston
Biography

Dr. Chris Coulston received his B.A. in Physics in 1989 from Slippery Rock University, his B.S. in Computer Engineering in 1991, the M.S. in Computer Engineering in 1994, and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 1999 all from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Coulston taught at the University Park campus from 1993-1998.

He received the best paper award for “Constructing exact octagonal Steiner Minimal Trees,” at the Great Lakes Symposium on Circuits and Systems, April 2003 and was the first runner-up for best theoretical paper, “Ants and evolution: The non-uniform Steiner Minimal Tree problem,” at Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering in November 2002.

Dr. Coulston co-authored Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005, 300 pp., ISBN 0-07-319599-5 with Dr. Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering.