Students and Faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of Mississippi (UM) recently participated in the 19th Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics that was sponsored by the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). The Review was held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California on March 24-28, 2003, and Dr. Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Applied Electromagnetic Systems Research (CAESR) at Ole Miss, served as Conference Chair.

The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) is a relatively new and unique professional society, which provides a forum for issues relevant to numerical modeling in applied electromagnetics. The primary focus of ACES is on computational techniques, electromagnetics modeling software, and applications. Thus, it is not surprising that the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of Mississippi was well represented and made significant contributions at this meeting since computational electromagnetics is one of the major focuses of the electrical engineering graduate program. Seven papers and 2 short courses were co-authored and presented by 12 EE students and faculty, as listed below.       In recognition of faculty and student support of ACES and the Conference, a large number of awards were received by the Ole Miss participants. Dr. Ahmed A. Kishk, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Director of CAESR, received the Valued Contribution Award for the Outstanding Panel Presentation, "EM Modeling of Surfaces with Stop and Go Characteristics - Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Soft and Hard Surfaces," while Mr. Matthew J. Inman, EE Graduate Student, received the Valued Service Award for 4 years of work on the ACES Web Site. Dr. Elsherbeni also received a Valued Service Award for exceptional efforts and innovative development as ACES Electronic Publishing Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the ACES Journal.

Conference Chair, Dr. Atef .Z. Elsherbeni, calls Meeting to Order

Dr. Ahmed A.Kishk Receives Valued Contribution Award (Center)

In addition, Dr. Allen W. Glisson, Professor and Chair of Electrical and Director of CAESR, Dr. Richard K. Gordon, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dr. Alexander B. Yakovlev, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering received Certificate Awards in recognition of and appreciation for services and contribution to the ACES Conference for organizing and chairing technical sessions.

Sweet Huat Ong, Ahmed A. Kishk, and Allen W. Glisson, Wideband and Dual-Band Loaded Monopole Dielectric Resonator Antennas

Ahmed A. Kishk, Single-Fed Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antennas

W. Elloitt Hutchcraft and Richard K. Gordon, Generation and Use of Two-Dimensional Wavelet-Like Basis Functions

Per-Simon Kildal and Ahmed A. Kishk, EM Modeling of Surfaces with Stop and Go Characteristics - Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Soft and Hard Surfaces

Chris W. Hicks, Alexander B. Yakovlev, and Michael B. Steer, Slotted Waveguide Transistons for Spacial Power Combiners

Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Matthew J. Inman, and R. Christopher Riley, Antenna Design and Radiation Pattern Visualization

Cuthbert M. Allen, Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, and Charles E. Smith, Multi-Slot Antenna for Radar Systems

SHORT COURSES PRESENTED:

Atef Z. Elsherbeni and Allen W. Glisson, The FDTD Technique for EM Applications

Atef Z. Elsherbeni and Allen W. Glisson, Antenna Analysis and Design using the FDTD Technique

EE Faculty Relaxes and Enjoys the ACES Awards Banquet (From Left to Right: Drs. Yakovlev (UM), Kishk (UM),, Osama Mohammed, Elsherbeni (UM),, and Glission (UM).

UM EE Graduate Students and Faculty discusses "Good Old Times" with Ole Miss Alumus, Dr. Vince Rodriguez, at the ACES Conference. (From left to right: Dr. Glisson, Matt Inman, Dr. Rodriguez, Dr. Yakovlev, and Chris Riley).