EE Department Well Represented at 2002 IEEE AP-S & USNC/URSI Meetings in San Antonio, TX

The theme of the 2002 IEEE AP-S Symposium and USNC/URSI conference was "New Frontiers in Antennas and Propagation for a Wireless World." The conference was chaired by DR. Robert (Bob) Nevels of Texas A&M University, a former Ole Miss student (P.hD. '79), and the technical program was Co-Chaired Dr. Krys Michalski and by Dr. Don Wilton of The University of Houston and both former faculty members at Ole Miss. The conference program included an interesting variety of topics from AP-S and commissions A, B, D, F and K of USNC/URSI. The technical program lasted four days, from Monday, June 17th through Thursday, June 20th.

Those attending from Ole Miss were Dean Kai-Fong Lee, and Drs. Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Allen W. Glisson, Ahmed A. Kishk, and Alexander B. Yakovlev. A total of 11 authored and co-authored papers by faculty and graduate students where presented in the AP-S/URSI Conference, as given in the following list:

A.B. Yakovlev, M.V. Lukic, A.Z. Elsherbeni, C.E. Smith, and M.B. Steer, "Broadband Printed Antenna for Waveguide-Based Spatial Power Combiners."
P.L. Chin, A.Z. Elsherbeni, and C.E. Smith, "Characteristics of Coplanar Bow-Tie Patch Antenna."
G. Zheng, A.Z. Elsherbeni, and C.E. Smith, "A Coplanar Waveguide Bow-Tie Aperture Antenna."
A.Z. Elsherbeni, A.A. Eldek, B.N. Baker, C.E. Smith, and K-F. Lee, "Wideband Coplanar Patch-Slot Antennas for Radar Applications."
A.A. Kishk, "Tetrahedron and Triangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Wideband Performance."
A.A. Kishk, A.W Glisson, and X. Zhang, "Analysis of Dielectric Resonator Antennas Exited by a Coaxial Probe with Wideband Performance."
A.W. Glisson, S.M. Rao, and D.R. Wilton, "Physically-Based Approximation of Electromagnetic Field Quantities,"
C.M. Allen, A.Z. Elsherbeni, C.E. Smith, and C-W P. Huang, "Dual Tapered Meander Slot Antenna for Radar Applications."
A.A. Kishk, "Overview of Experimental and Numerical Reducing Blockage From Cylinders."
B. Deboo, K-F Lee, and R. Chair, "Stacked Patch Antenna with Shorting Pins."
G. Hanson and A.B.Yakovlev, "Analytical and Numerical Aspects of Regularization Techniques for Printed Transmission Lines."

In addition, Dr Elsherbeni chaired a technical session on "Bandwidth Enhancement and Minimization For Antennas," Dr. Kishk co-chaired a session on "Compact Reduced Size Antennas," Drs. Glisson and Kishk chaired a session on "Novel Numerical Techniques," and Dr. Yakovlev co-chaired a session on "Ray Methods for Urban and Indoor Propagation Modeling."

One of the major highlights of the conference was the Awards Banquet and Reception--Ranch Roundup held on Wednesday night. This unusual banquet venue featured a chuckwagon supper and cowboy show. Faculty had the opportunity to see real longhorn cattle and participate in events that include armadillo races, line dancing, and a rodeo. Dean Kai-Fong Lee and, Ole Miss Graduate, Dr. Edward K-N Yung (BSEE '73, MS '74, Ph.D. '77) of the City University of Hong Kong, are shown in the accompanying photo getting ready to mingle with the cows and participate in some of cowboy 'events'.

Dr. Edward K-N Yung and Dean Kai-Fong Lee (l-r) Taking It Easy at Some of the Cowboy 'Events' During the 2002 IEEE AP-S and USNC/URSI Conference.

Dr. Allen W. Glisson, New EE Department Chair, Joins the IEEE APS/URSI Crowd to See a Real Cowboy's Texas Ranch Roundup.