Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting and IEEE-USA PACE Briefing
Speaker: Russell T. Harrison, Legislative Representative - Grassroots Affairs, IEEE-USA
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, Md.
Directions: From the north, take 270 South to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave. From the south, take 495 exit 34 (which is Wisconsin Ave.) to Pooks Hill Rd.
More info: Mr. Harrington will discuss how IEEE-USA influences legislation to benefit members and how members can help. All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Graduates of the Last Decade, Northern Virginia Chapter
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Place: Chevy's Fresh Mex, Ballston Common Mall, Arlington, VA
Directions: Ballston Common Mall is just two blocks from Ballston Metro Station on the Orange Line and is connected to the Metro Station via skywalk from Mall Level 2. For driving directions and maps, see www.ballston-common.com/index.php?section=directions.
More info: Finger food and soft drinks provided. Washington GOLD members are also encouraged to attend. Enter the raffle for a SanDisk USB drive by completing the survey posted at http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/NovaGOLD/2005_09_pics/survey.htm.
Contact: Please RSVP to Chuck Baldi cbaldi@ieee.org. Visit the NoVA GOLD website at http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/NovaGOLD/ for more information.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Corner 7 Cafe, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter at 703-803-8701 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter; Industry Applications Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Kameel Andrawos
Time: Social hour at 5:45 pm; snacks at 6:00 pm, speaker at 6:30 pm
Place: KEMA Consulting, 4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax, VA
More info: Refreshments will include assorted sandwiches, potato chips, dessert, coffee, tea and soda.
Cost: Free for members (including student members), $10 for guests.
Contact: RSVP by September 14 at 5:00 pm to Sirak Belayneh at sbelayne@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Graduates of the Last Decade; and Computer Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Van B. Le, Blueprint Technologies, Inc.
Time: Networking and food 6:00 pm; technical presentation 7:00-8:00 pm
Place: Oracle Facility, 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
More Info: Pizza and soft drinks provided. For more information on this presentation, see Diamond story below or contact Dr. Le at vanble@alumni.gwu.edu.
Contact: Registration is required. Please pre-register at
www.cigital.com/ieee/reserve.html.
For more information on GOLD activities, please contact Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org or Syed Ahmed at syed.f.ahmed@ieee.org. For more information on technical activities of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Computer Society, please contact T.K. Ramesh, co-chair,
at tkramesh@ieee.org.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers for Science and Exploration at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Sponsors: Lasers and Electro-optics Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter; and Optical Society of America, National Capital Section
Speaker: Michael A. Krainak
Time: Lecture at 6:30 pm, followed by optional dinner
Place: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center, Greenbelt, MD.
Dinner following the lecture at Siri's Chef's Secret Restaurant (Thai), 5810 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD.
Directions: From the south, take the Baltimore-Washington Pkway (I-295) to Greenbelt Rd. East (Route 193). Follow Greenbelt Rd. past NASA's main gate. Turn left onto Soil Conservation Rd., then then left at the first opportunity to reach the Visitor Center. See
www.gsfc.nasa.gov/indepth/maps_mapsdirections.html.
Leaving the Vistor Center to go to the restaurant, turn right onto Soil Conservation Rd., then right onto Greenbelt Rd. The restaurant is approx. 4 miles, on the right just after the Beltway Plaza.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Contact: If you are attending the dinner, reservations are required by 4:00 pm, Monday, September 19. To make reservations or for more information, please contact Dominique Dagenais at 301-951-7095 or
dominique_dagenais@avanex.com.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
How to Improve the Accuracy of EMC Measurements in the MIL-STD Environment
Sponsor: Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: James Young
Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Place: Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, Truman Room on Mezzanine Level, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC
More Info: This will be a "brown bag" lunch meeting and attendees are encourage to come early and socialize with their fellow society members. See Diamond story below.
Contact: Joann Dorsey at joannd@wll.com
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Dynamics in Magnetic Micro- and Nanostructures (Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture)
Sponsors: Magnetics Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter; and George Washington University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Speaker: Burkard Hillebrands, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: Department of ECE, The George Washington University, 801 22nd Street NW, Academic Center, Phillips Hall, Room T-640, Washington, DC 20052
Directions: One block from the Foggy Bottom Metro Station.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free, open to the public.
Contact: Dr. Can E. Korman at korman@gwu.edu.
Sponsors: Northern Virginia and Washington Sections; IEEE-USA's Professional Activities Committee for Engineers (PACE)
Time: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See eScanner News story with links to program, presentations and speakers. Open to all members of the IEEE Northern Virginia and Washington Sections.
Cost: Free, including lunch.
Contact: Registration is requested by September 16. To register, please send an email to Jackie Hunter at nca-admin@ieee.org with "MPAC 2005 Workshop" in the subject line. For more information, contact Amarjeet Basra (Chair, Professional Activities, Northern Virginia Section) at amarjeet.basra@ieee.org; or Shyam Bajpai (Chair, Professional Activities, Washington Section) at s.bajpai@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Electron Devices Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Hans Stork, Texas Instruments
Time: Refreshments at 6:30 pm; lecture at 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2 Conference Room 1N100A/B, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA.
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. Free parking. See www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Murty Polavarapu at
murtyp@ieee.org.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Fellowship Trail: My Life as an IEEE Engineering & Diplomacy Fellow
Sponsor: Communications Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Co-sponsors: Society for Social Implications of Technology, Northern Virginia, Washington and Baltimore Chapter; and Women In Engineering, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Emily Sopensky, The Iris Company, IEEE Engineering & Diplomacy Fellow (2004)
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: Follow an IEEE-USA Fellow from application to selection to indoctrination to completion of her fellowship at the U.S. State Department. See Diamond Story below.
Cost: Free, including dinner.
Contact: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at fseelig@mitre.org.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Negative-Refraction Metamaterials and Electromagnetic Applications
(APS Distinguished Lecture)
Sponsor: Antennas and Propagation Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: George V. Eleftheriades, University of Toronto
Time: Refreshments 6:30 pm; lecture 7:00-8:00 pm
Location: Mitre Corporation, Building 1 Room 1H302 (South Lobby Entrance), 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond Story below.
Contact: Reservations are requested, please send an email to dc_aps@yahoo.com.
Sponsors: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter; and Life Members Affinity Group
Speaker: Dr. James Rautio, Founder, Sonnet Software, Inc.
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Room 1110, College Park, MD
Directions: From the north or I-495, take Route 1 South. Approx. 2 miles south of the Beltway, turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately take Paint Branch Drive and continue past Stadium Drive to Parking Lot P, where parking is free after 4:00 pm. The Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building is adjacent to the parking lot. From the south on Route 1, turn left onto Campus Drive, and follow above directions.
See http://www.parking.umd.edu/themap (campus map oriented with North at lower right).
More Info: See Diamond Story below or www.ieee.org/mtt-wnva.
Contact: Roger Kaul at 301-394-4775.
Sponsors: Signal Processing Society, Northern Virginia Chapter; and Acoustical Society of America, Washington, D.C. Chapter.
Speakers: Dr. Bruce Newhall (Evaluation of Adaptive Beamforming Methods in Non-Stationary Noise) and Dr. Ray Soukop (A Geoacoustic Physical Modeling Approach to Acoustic Scattering and Propagation Problems)
Time: Reception with food and beverages at 6:30 pm; Dr. Newhall's lecture at 7:00 pm; break at 8 pm; Dr. Soukop's lecture at 8:15 pm
Place: George Mason University, Johnson Center, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA
Directions: See www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.html.
More Info: Enjoy an evening of presentations and discussions on signal processing and underwater acoustics. Q&A discussion time will follow each lecture.
Cost: Free, open to public.
Contact: Dr. Juan I. Arvelo, Jr. (chair, Washington D.C. Chapter, Acoustical Society of America) at asachapterdc@yahoo.com
or Dr. Timothy Settle (chair, Northern Virginia Chapter, IEEE Signal Processing Society)
at settlet@saic.com.
Diamond Stories
Security is an important concern in most organizations today. Increasing your security consciousness and becoming more savvy about security issues could have a positive effect on your career prospects. In this presentation, Dr. Le will review the body of knowledge covered by the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification exam. The content of each of the 10 domains of knowledge covered by the exam will be summarized, and the requirements to qualify for the certification and exam will be discussed. Study recommendations and the requirement to maintain the certification by obtaining Continued Professional Education Credits will also be covered.
Van B. Le is currently an enterprise architect at Blueprint Technologies, Inc. Before joining Blueprint, Dr. Le was employed by Keane Federal Systems as their chief architect and chief scientist. She holds a M.S. in computer science from George Washington University and a Doctorate of Sciences in grid computing security and high-parallel computing from the University of Franche-Comté.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers for Science and Exploration at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
This lecture will explore present and near-term uses for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers for NASA-specific applications including planetary topography and atmospheric spectroscopy. Fiber lasers and amplifiers offer numerous advantages for both near-term and future deployment of instruments on exploration and science remote sensing orbiting satellites. Ground-based and airborne systems provide an evolutionary path to space and a means for calibration and verification of space-borne systems. We present experimental progress on both the fiber transmitters and instrument prototypes for ongoing development efforts. These near-infrared instruments are laser sounders and lidars for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide, oxygen, water vapor and methane and a pseudo-noise (PN) code laser ranging system. The associated fiber transmitters include high-power erbium, ytterbium, neodymium and Raman fiber amplifiers. In addition, Dr. Krainak will discuss near-term fiber laser and amplifier requirements and programs for NASA free space optical communications, planetary topography and atmospheric spectroscopy.
Michael Krainak received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Catholic University and M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He started his career as a telephone switch office field engineer for AT&T Western Electric. He worked for ten years at the National Security Agency in signal processing and analysis, Fourier optics, optical computing and microelectronic circuit design and simulation. His Ph.D. research was on real-time holography and electron transport in photorefractive crystals. He had a short sabbatical at AT&T Bell Laboratiories in the Optical Computing Laboratory of Dr. Alan Huang.
For the past 15 years, Dr. Krainak has worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Lasers and Electro-Optics Branch on inter-satellite laser communications, lidar, fiber gyroscopes, and fiber optic data systems. He was the lead engineer for the atmospheric lidar channel on the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (ICESat/GLAS). Recently, he worked one year as the test and reliability manager at the semiconductor laser manufacturer start-up, Quantum Photonics Inc. His current research interests are fiber lasers and amplifiers, near-infrared photon-counting detectors and laser-spectroscopy-based remote-sensing of atmospheric constituents. He recently served as a co-investigator for the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration project.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
How to Improve the Accuracy of EMC Measurements in the MIL-STD Environment
Topics to be reviewed in this presentation include the spectrum analyzer versus the EMI receiver (advantages and disadvantages of each type of equipment), RF overloads, preselection, and the problems and benefits of using low noise amplifiers for increased sensitivity. Preamplifiers in particular will be discussed. It is common to use external preamplifiers for most frequency ranges for MIL-STD type testing, but there can be errors induced from preamplifiers. How to detect potential measurement errors caused by these preamplifiers will be addressed.
James Young is the sales and marketing manager for Rohde & Schwarz EMI products in the Americas. His engineering background includes system, circuit, ASIC and FPGA design for various communication products. He has also held product management and marketing positions with Cadence (Tality) in San Jose, ParkerVision in Jacksonville, and Signal Space Design in Salt Lake City. He holds a B.S.E.E.T. from Weber State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
Dynamics in Magnetic Micro- and Nanostructures (Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture)
For applications in sensors and in data storage, the dynamic properties of micro- and nanostructures are gaining increasing attention. The fundamental excitations in these objects are confined spin waves, and it is useful in particular to understand their properties in view of the noise spectrum in sensor and MRAM applications.
This lecture addresses the dynamics in homogeneously and inhomogeneously magnetized objects starting with an introduction into spin waves and the effects of finite dimensions. In inhomogeneous systems the excitation spectrum is complex, and new phenomena, like localization and tunneling of modes are discussed. The key points are illustrated by results obtained by space- and time-resolved Brillouin-light-scattering technique, which allows one to follow experimentally the propagation of spin wave packets and to present the results in an animated format. To conclude the lecture, the analysis of ultra-high-frequency dynamic properties of small magnetic elements such as squares and rings with spatial resolution in the 300 nanometer range and the potential application to new logic devices based on spin waves will be presented.
Burkard Hillebrands received his diploma in physics from the University of Cologne in 1982 and his Ph.D. in physics from the same university in 1986. After a postdoctoral stay at the Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona, he received his habilitation from the RWTH Aachen in 1993. He was an associate professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. Since 1995, he has been a full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. He is the coordinator of the German priority program “Ultrafast Magnetization Processes,” and the vice coordinator of the German research unit “New Materials with High Spin Polarization.” He also coordinates a European network on “Ultrafast Magnetization Processes in Advanced Devices.” He is currently the head of the Material Research Center for Micro- and Nanostructures (MINAS) at the University of Kaiserslautern. He is a member of the granting board for collaborative research centers (SFB) of the senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics.
Dr. Hillebrands’ research field is primarily in magnetoelectronics. His special interests are in spin dynamics, material properties of thin magnetic films and multilayers, exchange bias, as well as in elastic properties of layered structures. In the field of spin dynamics, he is particularly interested in dynamic magnetic excitations in confined magnetic structures, magnetic switching, and nonlinear magnetic phenomena using space- and time resolved Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and time resolved Kerr effect techniques.
He has published more than 170 articles, five patents and patent applications, and seven book contributions, and co-edits the book series, Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures.
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Hans Stork is senior vice president and chief technology officer for Texas Instruments. As director of the silicon technology development organization, his primary responsibilities are the development of advanced CMOS, packaging and mixed signal process technologies. He joined Texas Instruments in September 2001, as vice president and director of silicon technology research.
Prior to joining Texas Instruments, Dr. Stork was director of the Internet systems and storage lab at HP Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard, in Palo Alto, California from 1999 until 2001. The IS&S Lab focused on highly scalable, dynamic, federated computer and storage systems. After joining Hewlett-Packard in 1994, Dr. Stork held the position of director of the ULSI research lab between 1995 and 1999. This laboratory was established in 1994 and closed in 1999 with the split between Agilent and Hewlett-Packard. The operational staff of the 40,000 square foot, Class 1, clean room facility improved the productivity per person hour to the best recorded in HP's facilities. During his leadership the researchers of the ULSI Lab developed a high performance 0.18 um CMOS technology with Al/low-k interconnect, and developed and transferred then world's lowest dark-current CMOS image sensors and technology to Agilent's image component division. The ULSI Research Lab demonstrated the world's smallest FRAM cell feasibility jointly with TI and Applied Materials in 1999.
Dr. Stork started his professional career in 1982 at IBM's T.J.Watson Research Center, researching advanced bipolar technology and circuits. In 1987, he established and managed an Exploratory Devices group. This group explored and demonstrated SiGe HBTs, resulting in new speed records at device and circuit level, and presented invited talks at all major conferences including six papers at a single IEDM conference. Within 10 years, this SiGe technology was transferred to manufacturing and established IBM's entry in high-speed communication technologies. In 1990, Hans became manager of the Bipolar Devices group, and led one of the task forces on high-end computing that resulted in IBM's change in mainframe strategy. From 1992 to 1994, he assumed responsibility for the Exploratory Device and Technology programs at IBM Research. His teams demonstrated CMOS process technologies at 0.1 um channel lengths with world record speed performance, supported by an extensive E-beam lithography facility. They also published the first extensive simulations of double-gate devices as the best structure to the ultimate scaling challenges of FETs.
Dr. Stork was awarded two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM. He has written or co-authored more than 90 cited papers and holds 11 US patents. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1994 for his contributions to SiGe devices and technology. As a member of the Electron Devices Society, he has helped organize a number of conferences and symposia.
A native of The Netherlands, Dr. Stork received the Ingenieur degree in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology, and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His PhD and Ir. theses concerned the fabrication, modeling and measurement of Static Induction Transistors, non-volatile NMOS devices and junction FET CCDs.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Fellowship Trail: My Life as an IEEE Engineering & Diplomacy Fellow
Emily Sopensky has had a myriad of roles with IEEE. She has long held office with the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society and its predecessors. With the Electron Devices Society, Sopensky was deeply involved in continuing education for the practicing engineer. Active in the CenTex Section, she held the office of treasurer and co-founded the Women in Engineering chapter.
IEEE-USA selected her as the 2004 Engineering & Diplomacy Fellow to the U.S. Department of State and she is the current liaison to the WIE. Her activities with the Awards Board focused on presentation and publicity for the Honors Ceremony and identifying women eligible for IEEE’s honors and awards.
In her profession, which is translating technology for popular consumption, Sopensky has found IEEE to be an infinitely reliable and dependable resource. Whether researching a technology or a technical practice, working with a community of respected engineers, or determining engineering and management best practices, Sopensky has found that IEEE offers answers for the curious and persistent. For more information about Sopensky, visit her website
at www.iriscompany.com.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Negative-Refraction Metamaterials and Electromagnetic Applications
(APS Distinguished Lecture)
Recently there has been renewed interest in man-made materials with electromagnetic properties that cannot be found in nature. These materials are referred to as "metamaterials" ("meta" means "beyond" in Greek). This lecture addresses metamaterials that can support negative refraction of electromagnetic waves. For example, the feasibility of media that simultaneously exhibit negative permittivity and negative permeability, hence a negative refractive index, has been known since the 1960s. However it is only recently that researchers discovered how to make them. In such negative-refractive-index (NRI) or "left-handed" metamaterials, waves can be thought of as propagating backwards instead of forwards. When interfaced with conventional dielectric materials, incident waves become focused on a point instead of diverging outwards, thus suggesting the implementation of lenses with flat surfaces.
In this lecture, it will be demonstrated that NRI metamaterials can be synthesized using planar networks of loaded transmission lines. The resulting metamaterials can be easily constructed using embedded capacitors and inductors. Since no resonators are explicitly involved, they offer wide operating bandwidths. Based on this approach, microwave NRI metamaterial lenses that can resolve details beyond the classical diffraction limit will be presented. Alternative transmission-line metamaterials that support negative wave refraction will also be described. Moreover, a number of useful antenna and microwave devices, enabled by such negative-refraction metamaterials will be demonstrated. These enabling materials and devices can find applications in diverse areas such as wireless communications, defence, and medical imaging.
George V. Eleftheriades is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S.E.E. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1993 and 1989 respectively, and a diploma in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1988. From 1994 to 1997, he was with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where he was engaged in the design of microwave and millimeter-wave antennas and circuits.
Dr. Eleftheriades received the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award and the Gordon Slemon Award from the University of Toronto for the teaching of design, both in 2001. He also received an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2004 (awarded to six Canadians every year across all disciplines of science and engineering). Dr. Eleftheriades has published more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers.
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James Clerk Maxwell stands shoulder to shoulder with Newton and Einstein, yet even those of us who have spent decades working with Maxwell's equations are almost totally unfamiliar with his life and times. This presentation, from the viewpoint of a microwave engineer, draws on many sources in providing an understanding of James Maxwell himself.
What was Maxwell like as an infant? What was the tragedy at eight years old that profoundly influenced his life? What unique means of transportation did young Maxwell use to escape a cruel tutor? What memorable event occurred on his first day of school? When did he publish his first papers, and what were they about? What did Maxwell have to do with the rings of Saturn? Why did he lose his job as a professor? Why did he have a hard time getting another job? What was his wife like? What is Maxwell's legacy to us? The answers to these questions provide insight into Maxwell the person and add an extra dimension to those four simple equations we have studied ever since.
James C. Rautio received a B.S.E.E. from Cornell University in 1978, an M.S. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Syracuse University in 1986. From 1978 to 1986, he worked for General Electric, first at the Valley Forge Space Division, then at the Syracuse Electronics Laboratory. During that time, he developed microwave design and measurement software, and designed microwave circuits on Alumina and on GaAs. From 1986 to 1988, he was a visiting professor at Syracuse and Cornell, and he is currently an adjunct professor at Syracuse.
In 1988, Dr. Rautio began working full time with Sonnet Software, a company he founded in 1983. In 1995, Sonnet was listed on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held U.S. companies, the first microwave software company ever to be so listed. Located in North Syracuse, N.Y., Sonnet is the leading vendor of 3-D planar high frequency electromagnetic analysis software.
Dr. Rautio was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 and received the IEEE MTT Microwave Application Award in 2001. This lecture is one of the Distinguished Microwave Lectures sponsored by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.
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