Dr. Alexander Yakovlev made an invited plenary presentation entitled "Frequency-Plane Branch-Point Singularities in the Analysis of Modal Interactions on Guided-Wave Structures" at the 11th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory held in Kharkov, Ukraine in June.
Seven faculty members, seven graduate students, and two visiting scholars from the Electrical Engineering Department attended the 2006 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium/URSI National Radio Science Meeting/AMEREM Meeting held in July in Albuquerque, NM. EE Department members contributed to 25 technical papers presented at the meetings.
The Electrical Engineering Department has been awarded a $1.27 million grant to design a low-power radar chip by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) of Huntsville, Ala. Dr. Ahmed Kishk, Professor of Electrical Engineering, is the principal investigator on the project. Dr. Atef Elsherbeni, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Dr. Allen Glisson, Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering, are co-principal investigators.
Prof. Lauri Sydänheimo and graduate student Leena Ukkonen from Tampere University of Technology in Finland visited the EE department during the summer of 2006 and presented a graduate seminar on their work in the area of RFID technology.
Prof. Robert W. Scharstein of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alabama recently visited in the department and presented a graduate seminar entitled "Low Frequency Scattering by a Rectangular Trough: Variational Solution."
Dr. John Huang, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology recently visited in the EE department and presented a graduate seminar on "Reflectarray Antennas."