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Research Interests

Engineering Education: Interactive/collaborative education, research as education, first-year engineering, K-12 engineering education outreach, engineering recruiting and retention, and assessment of engineering curriculum.

Community Engineering: Designing for the community, multidisciplinary design education through designing client based assistive technology devices and educational exhibits.

Numerical modeling of electromagnetic phenomena at RF, microwave, and optical frequencies:  Applications include high-speed digital circuit simulation and packaging, optical devices and interconnects, antennas, electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic interference, and interactions with human tissue.

Education

Northwestern University; Evanston, IL

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering “Computational Electromagnetics for High Speed Digital Design” December, 1993.

M.S. in Electrical Engineering “Computational Electromagnetics for Biological Applications; Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment & Study of the Retinal Rod of the Eye” June, 1990.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana, IL 

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering track, June 1988. 

University of Lancaster; Lancaster, England, Electrical Engineering Exchange, Fall 1985.