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Research at the Electromagnetics Laboratory, CSU ECE

Research activities of the Electromagnetics Laboratory at Colorado State University are in computational electromagnetics, antennas, and microwaves. Our main contributions are in higher order computational electromagnetic techniques based on the method of moments, finite element method, physical optics, domain decomposition method, diakoptics, and hybrid methods as applied to modeling and design of antennas, scatterers, and microwave circuits and devices.

Major External Research Grants

Grant “Diakoptic Approach to Modeling and Design of Complex Electromagnetic Systems,” from the National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division, Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) Program, unsolicited grant, PI Branislav Notaros (single-investigator grant), start date May 1, 2010, end date April 30, 2013, $360,000, Award No. ECCS-1002385.

Grant “NSF MRI: Acquisition of the ISTeC High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Science and Engineering Research Projects,” 2009 NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program, PIs: H. J. Siegel and P. J. Burns, submitted on January 22, 2009, awarded, $627,326 (B. Notaros – one of shorter submissions in the proposal, not co-PI).

Grant “Analysis of Structures for 3-D ALERT,” subcontract from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Phase 0 DARPA grant, collaboration of CU Boulder (Prof. Zoya Popovic), CSU, and BAE Systems. CSU budget $20,000, start date February 23, 2007, end date March 31, 2007. CSU PI Branislav Notaros.

Grant “Efficient Higher Order Techniques for Electromagnetic Modeling and Design of Photonic Crystal Structures,” from the National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division, Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) Program, unsolicited grant, PI Branislav Notaros (single-investigator grant), start date September 1, 2006, end date August 31, 2011, $410,396, Award No. ECCS-0650719.

Grant “Textile Based Carbon Nanostructured Flexible Antenna,” from the National Textile Center (NTC), Competency: Materials, B. Notaros is a co-PI, collaborative project with colleagues in the ECE Department and Materials and Textiles Department at UMass Dartmouth and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, start date June 1, 2006, end date May 31, 2009, $155,000 per year, Project ID: M06-MD01.

Grant “Higher-Order Finite Element-Moment Method Modeling Techniques for Conformal Antenna Applications,” from the National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division, Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies (EPDT) Program, unsolicited grant, PI Branislav Notaros (single-investigator grant), start date September 1, 2003, end date August 31, 2009, $249,417, Award No. ECCS-0647380.

Grant “Large-Domain Hybrid Moment Method–Physical Optics Techniques for Efficient and Accurate Electromagnetic Modeling of Cars and Aircraft over a Wide Range of Frequencies,” from the National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, Electrical and Communications Systems Division, EPDT Program, unsolicited grant, PI Branislav Notaros (single-investigator grant), start date September 1, 2001, end date August 31, 2005, $192,000, Award No. ECS-0115756.

NSF Foundation Coalition grant, project “Electromagnetics Concept Inventory” – Branislav Notaros, National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, Engineering Education and Centers Division, start date June 1, 2000, end date August 31, 2003, approx. $70,000, Award No. EEC-9802942.

Ph.D. Students

Milan Ilic (“Higher Order Hexahedral Finite Elements for Electromagnetic Modeling,” 2003)

Miroslav Djordjevic (“Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic Modeling of Vehicles over a Wide Range of Frequencies,” 2004)

Eve Klopf (“Optimal Higher Order Modeling Methodology Based on Method of Moments and Finite Element Method for Electromagnetics,” 2011)

Ana Manic

Nada Sekeljic

Sanja Manic

Elene (Helen) Chobanyan

Corneluis (Neels) Van Greunen

M.S. Students

Andjelija Ilic

Ergun Simsek

Nilanjana De

Enow Tanjong

Erdem Yilmaz

Carlos Flores

Mubashir Hussain (with Prof. Dayalan Kasilingam)

Roochi Chopra (with Prof. Steven Nardone)

Undergraduate REU Students

Joseph Kelly

Amy Standley

Steven Turner

She-ming Allen Chen

Christopher Yafrate

Eric Leveille

James Davidson

Ernest Northardt

Postdocs

Milan Ilic

Miroslav Djordjevic

Dusan Djurdjevic

ATMC Telecommunications Lab, UMD

Telecommunications Laboratory, a part of the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC) at UMass Dartmouth, is a state-of-the-art RF, antenna, and wireless facility providing excellent opportunities for student training and partnering with industry. Its equipment includes:

20’ x 12’ x 12’ fully anechoic and completely shielded chamber (Cuming Microwave Corporation)

7-axis hybrid planar/spherical/cylindrical completely computerized near-field antenna test system, with 6’ x 6’ x 6’ scanning area and far-field extension (Antcom Corporation)

8510E vector network analyzer system (Agilent Technologies)

Participation on Grants and Contracts at University of Colorado and University of Belgrade

Vivaldi antenna arrays for square kilometer array (SKA) radio telescope, with Prof. Zoya Popovic, Antenna/Microwave Lab, ECE Dept., University of Colorado, Boulder.

Reflector antenna modeled after an external ear of a bat species Plecotus auritus and its dual-frequency biosonar, with Prof. Zoya Popovic, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Optical control of microwave arrays: photonically tuned slot antennas, with Prof. Zoya Popovic, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Optical antenna and array design (consulting project), with Prof. Zoya Popovic, Boulder Colorado.

Design and realization of directive antenna arrays with electrically small unconventional reflectors, with Prof. Branko Popovic, Prof. Zoya Popovic, and Prof. Edward Kuester, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia and University of Colorado, Boulder.

Development of one-port, multiply excited (OPOMEX) antennas (generalized COCO antennas), with Prof. Branko Popovic and Prof. Zoya Popovic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia and University of Colorado, Boulder.

Design of supergain antenna arrays, with Prof. Branko Popovic and Prof. Zoya Popovic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia and University of Colorado, Boulder.

Development of efficient and accurate electromagnetic simulation techniques for wire, plate, and dielectric antennas and scatterers, with Prof. Branko Popovic, School of EE, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Design of large optimal NEMP-simulator antennas, with Prof. Branko Popovic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Design and realization of new classes of loaded broadband wire antennas, with Prof. Branko Popovic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Design and realization of log-periodic wire VHF/UHF TV antennas, with Prof. Branko Popovic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Design and realization of a class of GPS antennas and communication antennas situated inside automobiles – for theft protection and tracking system (consulting project), with Prof. Branko Popovic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Design and experimental testing of shielded rooms in health centers, with Prof. Branko Popovic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Electromagnetics Education Research

New Textbook “Electromagnetics” for Undergraduates with PEARSON Prentice Hall. B. Notaros is the author or coauthor of several textbooks in electromagnetics and in fundamentals of electrical engineering (basic circuits and fields). In addition, he has just published his new comprehensive textbook “Electromagnetics” (840 pages) for undergraduates with PEARSON Prentice Hall. The new book introduces many unique pedagogical features not present in any of the many existing undergraduate electromagnetics textbooks [there are an extremely large number (~30) of quite different textbooks for undergraduate electromagnetics available and “active” – perhaps more than for any other discipline in science and engineering]. In specific, it provides several nonstandard theoretically and practically important chapters and sections, new style and approaches to presenting challenging topics and abstract EM phenomena, numerous modern supplements, original teaching and learning tools, and some unique recipes and pedagogical guides for electromagnetic field computation and problem solving. It is meant as an “ultimate resource” for undergraduate electromagnetics.

Computer Exercises in Electromagnetics Using MATLAB, 350 pages, an e-book (separate ISBN), supplement to the new textbook “Electromagnetics” published by PEARSON Prentice Hall. There are a total of 478 MATLAB exercises, to supplement problems and conceptual questions. The Exercises include 135 tutorials with detailed completely worked out solutions merged with listings of MATLAB codes (m files), 58 movies developed and played in MATLAB, 156 figures generated in MATLAB, 16 graphical user interfaces (GUIs) built in MATLAB, etc. Assignments of computer exercises in parallel with traditional problems can help students develop a stronger intuition and a deeper understanding of electromagnetics and find it more attractive and likable. Moreover, this approach, requiring MATLAB programming, actively challenges and involves the student, providing additional benefit as compared to a passive computer demonstration.

Conceptual Questions in Electromagnetics, 160 pages, an e-supplement to the new textbook “Electromagnetics” published by PEARSON Prentice Hall. This collection provides 500 Conceptual Questions – these are multiple-choice questions that focus on the core concepts of the material, requiring conceptual reasoning and understanding rather than calculations. Pedagogically, they are an invaluable resource. They can be given for homework and on exams, and are also ideal for interactive in-class questions, explorations, and discussions (usually referred to as active teaching and learning), for student-to-student interaction and students teaching one another (so-called peer instruction, initiated by Eric Mazur in introductory physics), and for team work and exchange of ideas (collaborative teaching/learning). In addition, conceptual questions are perfectly suited for class assessments, as partial and final assessment instruments for individual topics at different points in the course and for the entire class.

Electromagnetics Concept Inventory (EMCI), an assessment tool for measuring students’ understanding of fundamental concepts in electromagnetics. This work was supported by the Engineering Education Program of the National Science Foundation, through the NSF Foundation Coalition grant. The EMCI is especially important in light of the new accreditation standards in engineering – ABET 2000 Criteria (the key word in these criteria is ‘assessment’). (A copy of the EMCI can be obtained upon request at notaros@colostate.edu).

Assessment Methodologies for Engineering Education – participated in several national meetings and multi-university research studies devoted to conceptual assessment instruments and other assessment techniques, as well as curricular reforms, in engineering education. Participated in organization and delivery of panel sessions on the tools for assessing conceptual understanding in engineering sciences at the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conferences and the Concept Inventory Developers Meetings, gave talks and has papers on concept inventory assessment instruments for electromagnetics education.

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