1997-1998 Faculty Publications and Grants

Many of the following papers and grants have been co-authored with non-ECE faculty members and students. The co-authors are listed in parentheses after each publication, and ECE students (current and recent) are italicized. Also, complete references have not been included. If you would like further information, please write or call the faculty member directly.

Papers:

Bernhard:

"Theory and Modeling of Bandpass Filters in Waveguide Using Thin Ferrite Layers."  Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 18, no. 2, June 5, 1998. (W.T. Joines)

"Analysis of Integrated Antenna Positions on a Laptop Computer for Mobile Data Communication." IEEE AP-S International Symposium Digest, July, 1997

"Analysis of Integrated Antenna Positions on Portable Equipment for Mobile Communications." Proceeding of the Wireless and Portable Design Conference, Burlington, MA, September, 1997.

"Awakening the Tinkerer Within : Re-Introducing First year Students to Hardware for Motivation."  Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 1997.

"Challenges and Strategies for Electrical Engineering Education." Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997.

"Design Actuation and Control of Active Patch Antennas." SPIE 1998 Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, March, 1998.

Carter:

"Epileptiform Bursting in a Disinhibited Recurrent Neural Network." Proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Neural Modeling of Brain and Cognitive Disorders, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, June 1998. (John Canfield)

Chamberlin:

"EMC Modeling of Shielded Enclosures with Apertures and Attached Wires in a Real-World Environment." Accepted for publication in the Journal of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. (Bruce Archambeault, and Omar Ramahy)

"Not So Distant Distance Learning." Proceedings of the 6th Annual Advanced Technology Workshop, May 19-20, 1998, Ajaccio, Corsica, France. (Barbara Dziurla-Rucinska)

Clark:

"Recent Results of the Cedar Storm Study." Adv. Space Res. Vol. 20, No. 9, pp 1655-1664, 1997. (M.J. Buonsanto, G. Bust, R.R. Clark, M. Codrescu, G. Crowley, B.A. Emery, T.J. Fuller-Rowell, G. Hoogeveen, A. Jacobson, D. Knipp, S. Maurits, P.G. Richards, J.R. Taylor and B.J. Watkiuns)

"Observed Dynamical Coupling Through Tidal Wave Propagation in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere at Midlatitudes." J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 59, 6, 641-654, 1997. (J.E. Salah, W. Deng)

"An Intercomparison Between the GSWM, UARS, and Ground Based Radar Observations: A Case-Study in January 1993." Ann. Geophysicae, 15, 1123-1141, 1997. (S.E. Palo, M.E. Hagan, D.E. Meek, R.A. Vincent, M.D. Burrage, C. McLandress, S.J. Franke, W.E. Ward, R.R. Clark, P. Hoffmann, R. Johnson, D. Kurschner, A.H. Manson, D. Murphy, T. Nakamura, Yu.I. Portnyagin, J.E. Salah, R. Schminder, W. Singer, T. Tsuda, T.S. Virdi, Q. Zhou)

Kraft:

"Optimal Weight Smoothing for CMAC Neural Networks." Proceedings of 1997 Neural Information Processing Conference (NIPS), December 1997, Breckinridge, Colorado.

LaCourse:

"Ergonomic Accommodation for Women and the Aged, Health and Safety By Design." American Osteopathic College of Occupational and Preventive Medicine, April 1998.

"Is Your Hospital Sick?" Advances for Directors in Rehabilitation, November 6, 1997.

"Ergonomics Conference: Technical, Managerial, and Psychosocial Issues in the Workplace." UNH, April 1998.

Miller:

"Unified Walking Control for a Biped Robot Using Neural Networks." Presented at the 1998 Cognitive and Neural Systems Conference, Boston, MA, May 28-30, 1998. (Kun, A.L.)

Nahin:

"An Imaginary Tale." Book Published by Princeton University Press, October 1998.

"Time Machines." Second Edition, Published by Springer-Verlag, November 1998.

Rucinski:

"Fault Modeling in Space-Borne Reconfigurable Microelectronic Systems." Embedded System Applications, C. Baron et al., eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1997. (N. Valverde, C. Baron, P. Bisgambiglia, D. Federici, and J.F. Santucci)

"Testing Issues in Advanced Microelectronic Systems: Technical and Academic Perspectives." Tutorial in Holland, University of Twente, Eschede, the Netherlands, Proceedings of the BELSIGN Workshop, May 4-5, 1998.

"Mechanical Engineering Component in Microelectronic Systems Education." Microelectronics Education, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1998. (Robert Jerard, Gerald Sedor, and Tamas Visegrady)

Sivaprasad:

"A Channel Model for Multipath Interference on Terrestrial Line-of-Sight Radio." IEEE Antennas and Propagation Special Issue on Wireless Communications, June 1998. (Chuck Bianchi)

Grants:

Bernhard:

"POWRE Supplement: Team-Based Research on Integrated Antenna Diversity." NSF.

Chamberlin:

"Electric Field Measurement by Scanning Probe Microscopy to Detect the Effect of Nanoscale Material Inhomogeneity on Signal Propagation in High Density Interconnects." Semiconductor Research Corporation.

Kraft:

"Vibration Control Using Optimized CMAC Neural Networks." Knowledge Modeling and Computational Intelligence Division, NSF, Three Year Grant.

LaCourse:

"A Screening Device for Upper Extremity Work Disorders", Biotherapeutics, Portsmouth, NH and NH IRC.

LaCourse, Rucinski:

"Health Monitoring Using Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing Systems", Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company and NH IRC.

Messner, Drake:

"Paper Study and Evaluation of Laser/Drivers and Photodetector/Preamps for High Speed Communication over Long-Haul and Short-Haul Fiber Connections." LANCAST, Inc., Nashua, NH, (Continuation).

Rucinski:

"Advanced Scan Based EDA Tool." Intellitech Corporation and NH IRC.

"Modification of the MCT2000 Tester", Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation.

VLSI Chip Fabriation, NSF/MOSIS.

"Remote Health Node, Phase II." Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company.