Assistant Professor
Mechatronics Engineering
Office: Engineering Technology Center Q-340
Email: kmcfall@spsu.edu
Office Phone: 678-915-3004
Before coming to Southern Poly, Dr. McFall lived abroad for more than ten years. His international experiences began with a study abroad for his entire undergraduate senior year at the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle. After graduating with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, his international travels continued during masters studies with an appointment at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute in Japan. His work there involved heat transfer in the superconducting magnet systems for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project.
Such positive international experiences led to a research fellow position at Dalarna
University in Sweden after graduation from MIT with his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
His research shifted to artificial intelligence and image/signal processing where
he was involved in developing an automated winter road condition sensor using artificial
neural networks to classify road condition using image and sound input data. The research
fellow position at Dalarna University quickly led to a permanent faculty position
in the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics.