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Professional Activities and Accomplishments

Bio sketch

 

Edward J. Rothwell was born in Grand Rapids, MI. He received the A.S. degree from Grand Rapids Junior College, Grand Rapids, MI, in 1977, the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, in 1979, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the degree of electrical engineer from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1980 and 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1985, where he held the Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship.

He worked for Raytheon Co., Microwave and Power Tube Division, Waltham, MA, from 1979-1982 on low power traveling wave tubes, and for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, in 1985. He is currently the Dennis P. Nyquist Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University, where he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering from 1985-1990, an associate professor from 1990-1998, professor from 1998-2017, and the Dennis P. Nyquist Endowed Professor of Electromagnetics from 2017 until his retirement in 2020. Dr. Rothwell received the John D. Withrow award for teaching excellence from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University in 1991, 1996, 2006, and 2012, and the Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award in 2007. He also received the MSU Alumni Club of Mid Michigan Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2003, and the MSU Distinguished Faculty Award in 2013. He was a joint recipient of the Best Technical Paper Award at the 2003 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium, and in 2005 he received the Southeast Michigan IEEE Section Award for Most Outstanding Professional.

Dr. Rothwell is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Commission B of URSI. He is co-author of the books Electromagnetics (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001; 3rd edition 2018), Engineering Writing by Design (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2014; 2nd edition 2020), and Engineering Speaking by Design (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2015).

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General links

MSU links

Books

 

Electromagnetics

 

Engineering Writing by Design

 

Engineering Speaking by Design

patents

 

 

Edward J. Rothwell, “Self-Structuring Antenna System with a Switchable Antenna Array and an Optimizing Controller,” U.S. patent no. 6,175,723, January 16, 2001. (pdf)

Edward J. Rothwell and Lynn Greetis, “Variable Frequency Patch Antenna,” U.S. patent no. 8,659,498 B2, February 5, 2014. (pdf )

Edward J. Rothwell and Raoul O. Ouedraogo, “Reconfigurable Leaky-Wave Antenna,” U.S. patent no. 8,836,594 B2, September 16, 2014. ( pdf )

 

awards

 

 

External Awards

MSU Awards

students

 

Ph.D. Students

  • Michael Blischke, “Broadband Analysis of Radiating, Receiving, and Scattering Characteristics of Microstrip Antennas and Arrays,” August 1989, co-advisor with Kun-Mu Chen.
  • John E. Ross , “Application of Transient Electromagnetic Fields to Radar Target Discrimination,” August 1992.
  • Ponniah Ilavarasan, “Automated Radar Target Discrimination Using E-pulses and S-pulses,” August 1992, co-advisor with Kun-Mu Chen.
  • Ying-Chen Dai, “Time-domain Imaging of Radar Targets Using Ultra-Wideband or Short Pulse Radars,” August 1997, co-advisor with Kun-Mu Chen.
  • Qing Li, “Radar Target Discrimination Using Early-time Responses,” August 1995, co-advisor with Kun-Mu Chen.
  • Chang-Ying Tsai, “Radar Target Discrimination Using Neural Networks,” August 1995, co-advisor with Kun-Mu Chen.
  • Glen Wallinga, “Application of E-pulse and Cepstral Analysis to Radar Target Detection and Discrimination,” August 1997.
  • Ahmet Kizilay, “A Perturbation Method for Transient Multipath Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Targets above Periodic Surfaces,” August 2000.
  • Jung-Wook Suk, “Transient Analysis of Plane-Wave Scattering in a Layered Medium,” December 2000.
  • Chi-Wi Wu, “Coupling between Cavity-Backed Antennas on an Elliptic Cylinder,” December, 2001, co-advisor with Leo Kempel.
  • Christopher Coleman, “Self-Structuring Antennas,” May 2002.
  • Jong Chan Oh, “Natural Resonance Representation of the Transient Field Reflected by a Planar Layered Lossy Dielectric,” December 2002.
  • Derik Love, “A Mode-Matching Approach to Determine the Shielding Effectiveness of a Doubly-Periodic Array of Apertures in a Thick Conducting Screen,” December 2004.
  • Bradley Perry, “Natural Resonance Representation of the Transient Field Reflected from a Multi-layered Material,” August 2005.
  • Gary Dester, “Electromagnetic Material Characterization of a Conductor-backed Material Using the Two Layer, Two Thickness, and Two Iris Waveguide Probe Methods: Error Analysis, Simulation, and Experimental Results,” August 2008.
  • Raenita Fenner, “Error Analysis of Reflection-Only Material Characterization Methods,” May 2011.
  • Raoul Ouedraogo, “Topology Optimization of Metamaterials and Their Applications to RF Component Design,” August 2011.
  • Ben Crowgey, “Rectangular Waveguide Material Characterization: Anisotropic Property Extraction and Measurement Validation,” December 2013.
  • Junyan Tang, “Characterization of Anisotropic Materials Using a Partially Filled Rectangular Waveguide,” May 2015.
  • Andrew Temme, “Experimental Studies of Microwave Propagation Through Fires for Through-Wall, Search-and-Rescue Radar in Firefighting,” December 2015.
  • Jonathan Frasch, “Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to Electromagnetic Materials Characterization and Design Problems,” May 2017.
  • Korede Akinlabi-Oladimeji, 2012-2018 (joined Aerospace Corporation 2017), expected graduation 2021.

M.S. Thesis (and Studienarbeit/Diplomarbeit) Students

  • Stephen Reichel, “A Time Domain Bistatic Inverse Scattering Identity Using Physical Optics Approximation,” October 1994. (Studienarbeit)
  • Christoph Ohl, “Target Discrimination using the Extinction-Pulse Technique and Wavelet Transforms with Cepstral Analysis,” October 1997. (Studienarbeit)
  • Mirko Schacht, “Radar Target Identification of Hidden Objects using Direct Time Domain Measurements,” January 1999. (Diplomarbeit)
  • Christopher Coleman, “Analysis of Daimler-Chrysler/CISPR 25 Radiated Emission Testing setup for modules,” July 1999.
  • Mathew Feusse, “Modeling Conducted Emission Transients due to DC Motor Switching in Automotive Applications,” May 2001, co-advisor with Dennis Nyquist.
  • Garrett J. Stenholm, “Nondestructive Evaluation of Layered Materials using the E-pulse Technique,” May 2002.
  • Bradley Perry, “A Self-Structuring Antenna Prototype,” August 2002.
  • Michael Markey, “Comparison of Measurement to Simulation for an antenna on a vehicle,” May 2003, co-advisor with Leo Kempel.
  • Heike Vollmer, “Natural Mode Analysis of the Early-Time Response of a Dielectric Coated Cylinder,” May 2003. (Studienarbeit)
  • Jason Meeussen, “Error analysis in a waveguide materials property measurement,” May 2004.
  • Lanwu Zhao, “Analysis and Synthesis of Broadband Travelling Wave Antennas,” August 2004.
  • Jonathan Wierzba, “Scattering from a Coated Curved Surface of Varying Thickness with Application to Nondestructive Evaluation,” May 2005.
  • Joachim Jessberger, “Investigation of the Near-Field Properties of the Self-Structuring Antenna,” October 2005. (Studienarbeit)
  • Steve Cossmann, “Transient Reflection of Plane Waves from a Lorentz-Medium Half-Space,” May 2006, co-advisor with Leo Kempel.
  • Timm Zwietasch, “Transient Reflection of Plane Waves from a Plasma Half-Space,” November 2006. (Studienarbeit)
  • Raenita Fenner, “Bandwidth Extension of a Body Worn Antenna Vest,” August 2007.
  • Lynn Greetis, “A Self-Structuring Patch Antenna,” May 2008.
  • Raoul Ouedraogo, “A Self-Tuning Electromagnetic Shutter,” August 2008.
  • Michael Archbold, “Control of the Main Beam of a Half-Width Microstrip Leaky-Wave Antenna by Edge Loading Using the Transverse Resonance Method,” August 2008.
  • Ben Crowgey, “Comparison of UWB Short-Pulse and Stepped-Frequency Systems for Imaging Through Barriers,” August 2009.
  • Chad Gardner, “A Conformal Taguchi Optimized E-patch Antenna,” December 2010.
  • Andrew Temme, “A Self-Structuring Two-Port Network,” December 2011.
  • Korede Akinlabi-Oladimeji, “Self-Structuring Head-Worn Antenna”, May 2012.
  • William Stevers, “Suitability of the RSP2pro Software-defined Radio for Precompliance Radiated Emissions Testing,” May 2020.