Professor Douglas H. Werner

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
211A Electrical Engineering East
University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-863-2946
FAX: 814-865-7065

E-MAIL dhw@psu.edu

Senior Scientist

Applied Research Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University
PO Box 30
State College, PA 16804

Vitae

Prof. Douglas H. Werner, joined the faculty of The Pennsylvania State University Department of Electrical Engineering in July of 1998. He is the Director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL) and is a member of the Communications and Space Sciences Lab (CSSL). Prof. Werner has a joint appointment as a Senior Scientist with the Computational Electromagnetics Department of the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State, where he has worked since 1990. He is also a faculty member of the Penn State Materials Research Institute (MRI). His research interests include theoretical and computational electromagnetics with applications to antenna theory and design, phased array systems, conformal antennas, microwave devices, wireless and personal communication systems, electromagnetic wave interactions with novel materials, electromagnetic metamaterials, tiling theory, fractal and knot electrodynamics, neural networks, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization.

In 1992, the Prof. Werner developed an exact solution for a long standing problem in antenna theory and has made several contributions, based on this exact analysis, which have led to the development of generalized method of moments formulations for the efficient and accurate computational modeling of cylindrical wire antenna structures.This work has received national as well as international recognition and is the subject of several invited book chapters.

Prof. Werner has also made several contributions to the newly emerging area of research known as fractal electrodynamics, which combines fractal geometric concepts with Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism. He has developed several analysis techniques useful for solving fractal electrodynamics problems and has been applying these techniques tostudy a new class of electromagnetic radiation, propagation and scattering problems.Most recently he has received international recognition for the development of new designs for multiband/broadband fractal antenna elements as well as multiband/broadband fractal arrays.Other areas of active research by Prof. Werner include the development of computational modeling techniques for the analysis and design of fractal frequency selective surfaces, conformal antennas mounted on curved platforms, the application of genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization techniques to the solution of complex engineering electromagnetics problems, and the development of novel electromagnetic metamaterials.

Prof. Werner received the 1993 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Best Paper Award. He was also the recipient of a 1993 URSI International Young Scientist Award. In 1994, Dr. Werner received The Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Outstanding Publication Award. He has published numerous technical papers and conference proceedings articles and is the author of nine book chapters.He recently published a new book for IEEE Press entitled Frontiers in Electromagnetics.He has also contributed a chapter for a Wiley Inter-science book entitled Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms as well as a Springer book entitled Soft Computing in Communications.In March 2000 Prof. Werner was the recipient of a College of Engineering PSES Outstanding Research Award. He was also recently presented with an IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section Millennium Medal.

Prof. Werner served as the Technical Program Chair for the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) 2000 Conference, is a former Associate Editor of Radio Science, an editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), URSI Commissions B and G, the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), and IEEE AdCom. He is also a member of  Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi.

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Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL)