Greetings from the Department Head
I am pleased to send our greetings from the faculty, staff, and students of the Electrical Engineering Department at Penn State.
The Penn State Electrical Engineering Department is among the largest, oldest, and the most innovative in the nation. The EE Department, first established in 1893, is over 100 years old. The PSU Electrical Engineering Department offers B.S., M.S., and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering. Approximately 400 students are enrolled in the undergraduate program, and approximately 250 students are enrolled in the graduate program, with about half pursuing doctoral degrees. We have over 50 Professional Faculty. We offer approximately 90 courses from freshman to graduate level, encompassing all areas of electrical engineering. We also have a vibrant research program, at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
W. Kenneth Jenkins
Professor and Head of Electrical Engineering
Workshops and Short Courses
The Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR) will be hosting a workshop entitled Greater than 10 Gigabits per second Copper Ethernet on the Penn State University Park campus from May 12-13, 2009. For more information, please visit cictr.ee.psu.edu/workshop/home.html.
The Americal Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on the Effects of Thunderstorms and Lightning in the Upper Atmosphere will be held at the Penn State University Park campus from May 10-15, 2009. For more information, please visit www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2009/bcall/
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Department News Items
EE Ph. D. students Michael Stinger and Justin Liou were two of four College of Engineering students who won awards at the 53rd annual SPIE
Optics+Photonics Conference. More than 4,000 students attended the event,
which was held from Aug. 10-14 in San Diego, Calif. SPIE, the Society of
Optical Engineering, gave out 11 awards for excellence in research. Read the full story on Penn State Live .
Prof. Raj Mittra visited the Institute of High Performance Computing Group in Singapore during Sept 2-16, 2008, to collaborate with the scientists there on the problem of “Modeling Very Large Electromagnetic Systems." He also visited Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China, during Sept 7-11, 2008, and presented an invited talk on “Metamaterials and Conformal Antennas. He also visited the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Sydney, Australia from Aug 20-23 to collaborate with the Radio Astronomy group engaged in the design of world’s largest Radio Astronomy Telescope called the SKA (Square Kilometer Array).
Prof. Raj Mittra was a U.S. delegate at the URSI (Union Radio Scientific International) General Assembly in Chicago, Illinois, during Aug 11-15, 2008. He gave the invited talks entitled: “Characteristic Basis Function Method¬A Novel approach to Incorporating Concepts of Asymptotic Techniques into Rigorous Numerical Methods”; “Assessing the Physical Limitations of Synthesized Metamaterials Through Rigorous Numerical Modeling”; and “FDTD Simulation Of Wave Propagation And Coupling For Body Area Networks.”
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