DR. ALLEN GLISSON SELECTED AS CHAIR OF EE DEPT
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On July 1, 2002, a new era began for the Department of Electrical Engineering when Dr. Allen W. Glisson, Jr., Professor of Electrical Engineering at The University of Mississippi (UM), became the Chair of the department. This new era has roots that began even before the fall of 1969, when as a young man from Mendenhall, MS, he arrived on campus to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. With a quick mind and through hard work and devotion to understanding mathematics and technology, he was an outstanding student with superior academic performance where he received a Taylor Medal and then the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Mississippi, in 1973, 1975, and 1978, respectively. In 1978 after completing his Ph.D. in Engineering Science, he joined the faculty of UM, where he obtained the rank of Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1989.
During his tenure here, he has made significant long-term contributions in teaching and research to the department's programs, which have been recognized in his selection as the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Member in 1986 and again in 1996. He also received a Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award in 1989 and was selected as the 1998 Educator of the Year by the Memphis Section of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
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His research has attained national and international recognition, and he is one of our leaders that have kept this Department at the forefront of electromagnetic research for more than three decades. He and his colleagues have been carrying out cutting edge research in electromagnetics as applied to microwaves and antennas, which has been sponsored by various government agencies and technology companies. Most notably, his work contributed to development of a novel and innovative basis function for numerical analysis called "Rao-Wilton-Glisson" (RWG) that revolutionized the field of computational electromagnetics. For this, as well as his life-long contributions to his profession that started in the 1970's with his work on electromagnetic scattering by surfaces of arbitrary shape, he was elected to Fellow rank of the IEEE in 2002.
He and his wife, Elise, reside in Oxford, MS and have two children, Bryant, an Ole Miss 2001 BSEE graduate, and Courtenay, a sophomore at Washington and Lee University.
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Last Modified:Friday, August 09, 2002 1:25:56 PM
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