Professor Mark Wharton

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

209J Electrical Engineering West
The Pennsylvania State University 
University Park, PA 16802 

Telephone (814) 865-2091
FAX (814) 865-7065 

E-Mail: markwharton@psu.edu

Vitae

Professor Wharton’s teaching interests include electronics and communications. He is currently teaching undergraduate-level courses in Electronics (EE 310, EE 311, EE 448) and Senior Project Design (EE 403W).

Mark received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State in 1971 and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO in 1978.

Prior to joining Penn State as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in Fall 2000, Mark spent over 30 years in industry as a practicing design engineer specializing in circuit design for communications systems.

Mark was the Director, Research and Development for VertexRSI, State College (formerly MAXTECH, Inc.), a company that he co-founded in 1989. He managed the R&D department and was responsible for new product design and development. The company’s products include low-noise amplifiers, solid-state power amplifiers, block up and down converters and related equipment for satellite earth station users worldwide.

Mark designed baseband, IF, RF and microwave products for Locus, Inc., in Boalsburg PA, including synthesizers, up and down converters, imageless mixers, broadband quadrature hybrids, group delay equalizers, filters, broadband power splitters/combiners, transmission line transformers and other RF products. He also designed meteorological remote sensing circuitry and RF data communications hardware for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder , CO for use by scientists in their study of the weather.

Prior to that he worked in the broadcast industry at WLVP, WVAM, WPSU State College and at American Forces Radio and TV in Hollywood CA .

Mark has been President of the Society of Penn State Electrical Engineers (SPSEE) since 1997 and was the 1999-2001 President of the State College Radio Control Club (SCRC). He has been a licensed amateur radio operator (K0LO) since 1963.

List of Publications

Links

Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory (CSSL)

Society of Penn State Electrical Engineers (SPSEE)

State College Radio Control Club (SCRC)

Amateur Radio (ARRL)