ESL News

Fri, Feb 15, 2008

ESL Alumni President of Boeing Phantom Works

Dr. Matthew Ganz, a former student of Prof. R.T. Compton (now retired) at OSU-ESL, has been named President of Boeing Phantom Works. Click Here To Go To Boeing's News Article

Boeing announced today that Matthew Ganz has been named president of the company's Phantom Works advanced research and development unit, effective Feb. 22. Ganz comes to Boeing from HRL Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., where he was president, chief executive officer and general manager.

Ganz will report to John Tracy, Boeing chief technology officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology. "Matt's impressive background in technology development and leadership, along with his familiarity with Boeing technology, make him uniquely suited for this key leadership position," Tracy said.

Jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors, HRL Laboratories conducts R&D for a variety of commercial and government customers, as well as Phantom Works, which is chartered to provide technology solutions primarily to meet the mid- to long-term needs of Boeing's commercial and defense business units and open potential new business opportunities.

Ganz succeeds Bob Krieger, who retired Dec. 31, 2007. In addition to HRL, Ganz has held several other senior technology leadership positions, including sector vice president of Strategy and Technology at Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems; managing director and CEO of Navigator Technology Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund; vice president of Technology and vice president of Programs at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; and director of the Sensor Technology Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Ganz, 48, holds bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University and has been a member of various corporate and government boards, including the Defense Science Board and the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

Wed, Jan 09, 2008

2008 USNC/URSI Best Paper Award

Gokhan Mumcu received 2nd place in the "Best Student Paper Competition" at the 2008 USNC Radio Science Meeting held in Boulder, CO.

His paper entitled, "Miniature Antenna Using Printed Coupled Lines Emulating Degenerate Band Edge Crystals" was co-advised Dr. K. Sertel and Prof. J.L. Volakis.

Please join us in congratulating Gokhan Mumcu.

Mon, Dec 03, 2007

AMTA Fellows Announced

For the first time ever, the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) named several "Edmond S. (Stan) Gillespie" Fellows at their last Annual Meeting in St. Louis. Of the 22 people who were awarded the Fellowship, four are members of The ElectroScience Lab. They are: Prof. Emeritus W. Dennie Burnside, Prof. Leon Peters, Sr. Researcher Eric Walton, and Sr. Researcher Inder Jeet "Jiti" Gupta.

Fri, Nov 30, 2007

ESL Member Wins Presidential Fellowship

Mr. Kyung-Young Jung, who is working under the supervision of Prof. Fernando Teixeira and Prof. Ronald Reano, is one of the winners of this year's Presidential Fellowship Competition.

This is the second year in a row that an ECE graduate student won this prestigious award.

Wed, Nov 21, 2007

2 ESL Members Elected IEEE Fellows

Congratulations to Professor Robert Lee and Professor Joel Johnson on being elected IEEE Fellows.

Professor Lee was cited for his “for contributions to finite element and finite difference methods in electromagnetics” and Professor Johnson was cited for his "contributions to ocean surface remote sensing using microwave systems."

Every year only 0.1% of the IEEE members are elected Fellows, the highest rank within the IEEE. Currently, about 2% of the membership holds the Fellow rank.

Mon, Oct 15, 2007

OCTOBER IS RESEARCH AWARENESS MONTH

October is Research Awareness Month and the OSU Office of Research is offering several training activities for OSU Researchers and Staff. Click here for more details and a schedule of events.

Wed, Sep 05, 2007

IEEE Director Candidate at ESL

Our own Ron Marhefka is running for the position of "IEEE Director of Division IV". (A great honor for ESL, ECE, and The University.)

This is the ELECTROMAGNETICS AND RADIATION Division of IEEE that comprises the APS, MTT, EMC, Broadcast, and four others.

If you are a member of the above listed societies, please vote when you receive your IEEE ballot. (Or On-Line at https://www.directvote.net/ieee)

Historically, only a small percentage of IEEE members vote, so you can be assured that your vote will have a strong impact on the outcome of the election.

Mon, Jul 16, 2007

URSI Student Paper Finalist at ESL

Current ESL Student Titipong Lertwiriyaprapa has been selected as one of the top three finalists in the 2007 USNC/CNC URSI Student Paper Competition.

His paper entitled, "A UTD for the Radiation by Sources near Thin Planar Positive or Negative Material Structures with Discontinuities" was peer-reviewed and then selected by the USNC/CNC URSI Panel of Judges to be among the top three out of a record number of high-quality papers submitted to the URSI competition.

The final phase of the competition involves an oral presentation of his paper to be judged by a panel consisting of the USNC and CNC Chairs of all 10 URSI Commissions.

Please join us in congratulating Titipong & his advisors Prof. Prabhakar Pathak and Prof. John L. Volakis.

Mon, Jul 02, 2007

Kezhong Zhao Takes 2nd Place in IEEE Paper Competi

Recent ESL graduate Kezhong Zhao took 2nd place in the student paper competition at the 2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium with his paper entitled, "Domain Decomposition Framework to Hybridize Different Numerical Methods for Solving Electrically Large Problems".

Please join us in congratulating Kezhong Zhao and his advisor Prof. Jin-Fa Lee. They have made us proud once again.

Mon, Jun 11, 2007

Ben Munk Receives IEEE John Kraus Award

Professor Emeritus Ben Munk has been selected to receive the 2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation John Kraus Antenna Award for his contribution in designing thin and broadband conformal arrays (10:1) with VSWR <2 and scan angle ± 60° in both E- and H-plane, without the use of lossy materials.

The award was presented on 13 June 2007 during the awards luncheon at the 2007 Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, held at the Sheraton Waikak, Honolulu, Hawaii.

This annual award was established through a donation from the late Ohio State University Professor John Kraus, and is awarded in recognition of an individual's innovations in antennas and education as well as exemplary service to the electromagnetics community.

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Munk.

Fri, May 25, 2007

New West Campus Shuttle Service

The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) announces the availability of a weekday shuttle between Central and West Campus. This shuttle will be of interest to those conducting research at Nanotech West Laboratory and other West Campus facilities on Kinnear Road, such as The ElectroScience Laboratory.

The round-trip shuttle runs six times every weekday, leaving central campus to arrive at West Campus approximately 5 minutes later, and immediately returning to central campus at:  9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 3:00 pm and, 4:30 pm

The shuttle will have one stop on central campus at the corner of 19^th and Neil Avenue, in front of Dreese Laboratories, 2015 Neil Avenue, and will drop off and pick up passengers on West Campus at the front entrance of Nanotech West Laboratory, 1381 Kinnear Road.

Fri, May 18, 2007

$80k To Change Ph.D. Completion Rates

Ohio State has been selected to receive an award of $80,000 to participate as a new Research Partner in the Council of Graduate Schools' Ph.D. Completion Project www.phdcompletion.org. The Graduate School proposal was singled out as having the potential to significantly affect national Ph.D. completion rates and attrition patterns. Nine Ohio State graduate programs are participating: Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, English, History, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, Physics, Political Science, and Psychology. These programs will pilot or refine strategies to address problems associated with completion and attrition in their programs. These efforts will be shared nationally. For more information, please contact Kathleen Wallace, Assistant Dean of The OSU Graduate School.

Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Dr. Gupta Receives AMTA Award

Dr. Inder Jeet "Jiti" Gupta has been awarded the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA). The AMTA bestows this award onto one individual each year in recognition of their career achievements in the field of antenna measurement techniques.

Tue, Feb 20, 2007

ESL Members in the News

In the February 15, 2007 edition of the onCampus Newspaper, several past & present ESL members are mentioned for their recent Presentations and Publications.

Included in Faculty & Staff section are (In no particular order) Joel Johnson, Alongkorn Darawankul, Guangdong Pan, Baris Guner, Matt Valerio, Noppasin Niamsuwan, Robert Burkholder, Khalid Jamil, Betty Lise Anderson, Carolyn Warnky, Rashmi Mital, Grant Hampson, Steve Ellingson, and Rangarajan Krishnamachari.

Click here for an on-line copy of the article by Jill Corbett.

Tue, Jan 02, 2007

Welcome Back!

The ElectroScience Laboratory would like to welcome back all returning OSU students, and wish everyone a Happy & Prosperous New Year!

Wed, Nov 22, 2006

OSU joins the NSF ConnectionOne Center

The ConnectionOne Center provides a unique opportunity to recruit and attract top graduate students trained on all aspects of Electromagnetics, Wireless Communications, and Radio Frequency (RF) Systems, and to take advantage of research results carried out at OSU ConnectionOne Website hosted by The ElectroScience Laboratory of The Electrical & Computer Engineering College at The Ohio State University. (For more details, please click here).

Wed, Nov 22, 2006

ESL Members Published Again!

A new book, authored by John L. Volakis, Kubilay Sertel and Brian C. Usner, entitled "Frequency Domain Hybrid Finite Element Methods For Electromagnetics" is now available from Morgan and Claypool Publishers.

This book provides a brief overview of the popular Finite Element Method (FEM) and its hybrid versions for electromagnetics with applications to radar scattering, antennas and arrays, guided structures, microwave components, frequency selective surfaces, periodic media, and RF materials characterizations and related topics. It starts by presenting concepts based on Hilbert and Sobolev spaces as well as Curl and Divergence spaces for generating matrices, and proceeds to present applications of the finite element and finite element-boundary integral methods for scattering and radiation. Applications to periodic media, metamaterials and bandgap structures are also included. (For additional details, please click here.)

Tue, Oct 17, 2006

COUNT Ohio Consortium Established to Share Researc

The Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory is playing a key role in the establishment of a new consortium of Ohio Universities on navigation & timekeeping. Dr. Inder J. Gupta, a senior research scientist and adjunct professor at the Ohio State University Electroscience Laboratory, has helped to establish Consortium of Ohio Universities on Navigation and Timekeeping (COUNT). This new consortium has the primary goal of combining experience and resources of several Ohio universities and research institutions to make important strides in several areas of research. Precise navigation, accurate timekeeping, registration and geospatial technologies have become necessities for modern day warfare, commercial aviation, agriculture, banking, emergency rescue efforts, and more. The need for well-trained professionals who are capable of developing technologies required to meet these demands is exploding. US industry and DoD need to keep their work force up to date with the latest technological developments and breakthroughs to assure timely implementation of the next generation systems. The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, Ohio; Ohio University (OU) in Athens, Ohio; the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at WPAFB, Ohio, and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio are some of the top-ranked universities in undergraduate and graduate education and research that train more students in these and related areas than any other regional group of universities in the US. The faculty and researchers at the four Universities have formed COUNT to share their expertise for further training of undergraduate and graduate students as well as employees of the US-based navigation industry. Under the consortium, they will hold annual workshops to deliver short courses providing system-level training of navigation professionals, to share their latest research findings, and to offer early industry exposure to graduating students. The short courses and workshops will be open to US-based industry personnel who are members (Industrial Affiliates) of the Consortium. You can find out more about COUNT by visiting the website at www.countohio.org.

Mon, Jul 10, 2006

John Volakis Receives IEEE Honor

John Volakis, professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Distinguished Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Lecturer for 2006-2008.

Thu, Jul 06, 2006

2006 COE Harrison Faculty Award

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Joel Johnson for being selected for the 2006 Stanley E. Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.

Mon, Jun 26, 2006

Stealth radar sees through objects undetected

ElectroScience Engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the military and disaster rescue. Eric Walton, senior research scientist in Ohio State's ElectroScience Laboratory, said that with further development the technology could even be used for medical imaging.

He explained why using random noise makes the radar system invisible.

"Almost all radio receivers in the world are designed to eliminate random noise so that they can clearly receive the signal they're looking for," Walton said. "Radio receivers could search for this radar signal and they wouldn't find it. It also won't interfere with TV, radio or other communication signals."

The radar scatters a very low-intensity signal across a wide range of frequencies, so a TV or radio tuned to any one frequency would interpret the radar signal as a very weak form of static.

"It doesn't interfere because it has a bandwidth that is thousands of times broader than the signals it might otherwise interfere with," Walton said.

Like traditional radar, the "noise" radar detects objects by bouncing a radio signal off them and detecting the rebound. The hardware isn't expensive, either; altogether, the components cost less than $100.

The difference is that the noise radar generates a signal that resembles random noise, and a computer calculates very small differences in the return signal. The calculations happen billions of times every second and the pattern of the signal changes constantly. A receiver couldn't detect the signal unless it knew exactly what random pattern was being used.

The radar can be tuned to penetrate solid walls - just like the waves that transmit radio and TV signals - so the military could spot enemy soldiers inside a building without the radar signal being detected, Walton said. Traffic police could measure vehicle speed without setting off drivers' radar detectors. Autonomous vehicles could tell whether a bush conceals a more dangerous obstacle, like a tree stump or a gulley.

The radar is inherently able to distinguish between many types of targets because of its ultra-wide-band characteristics. "Unfortunately, there are thousands of everyday objects that look like humans on radar - even chairs and filing cabinets," he said. So the shape of a radar image alone can't be used to identify a human. "What tends to give a human away is that he moves. He breathes, his heart beats, his body makes unintended motions."

These tiny motions could be used to locate disaster survivors who were pinned under rubble. Other radar systems can't do that because they are too far-sighted - they can't see people who are buried only a few yards away. Walton said that the noise radar is inherently able to see objects that are nearby.

"It can see things that are only a couple of inches away with as much clarity as it can see things on the surface of Mars," he added.

That means that with further development, the radar might image tumors, blood clots and foreign objects in the body. It could even measure bone density. As with all forms of medical imaging, studies would first have to determine the radar's effect on the body. The university is expected to license the patented radar system.

6-20-2006
By: Pam Frost Gorder

Fri, Jun 16, 2006

ESL Alumnus Appointed to Director Position at MIT

ESL Alumnus, Dr. Eric Evans, has been appointed the Director of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Evans is a former student of Professor Stuart Collins here at the ESL. This is a tremendous accomplishment for Dr. Evans. Everyone here at the ESL congratulates him for this acheivement, as it continues a strong established tradition of the ESL.

Thu, May 11, 2006

ESL Distinguished Alumni Awards Reception Held

On May 9th, 2006 The Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory and Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering held an awards reception to recognize the acheivements of several distinguished alumni. Click here for more details.

The event was attended by over 40 faculty, researchers, alumni, and staff as they came together to celebrate the pre-eminent work of four ElectroScience Laboratory alumni. The ElectroScience Laboratory Distinguished Alumni Award was introduced in 2003 to honor the outstanding achievements of then OSU-ESL alumni. The 2005 Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory Distinguished Alumni Award was given to Errol K. English, William J. Kent, Thomas W. Kornbau, Robert J. Puskar of ATK Mission Research Corporation in Dayton for their outstanding engineering and scientific contributions, and entrepreneurship.

Fri, May 05, 2006

Two ESL Students win IEEE Best Poster Award

We are pleased to announce that two ESL students, Feridun Gundes and Kezhong Zhao were awarded one of the three "Best Poster" awards at the Twelfth Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC 2006) for their paper "Higher Order ABCs for FEM Applications"

Please join us in congratulatiing Feridun, Kezhong, and their Advisor, Prof. Jin-Fa Lee.

Thu, May 04, 2006

Reminder - Online ESL Tech Support

We would like to remind you that last year, the computer committee implemented a new procedure for requesting computer support. It is the committee's hope that this procedure will enable Kevin and Sean to better prioritize, delegate, and track the hundreds of support requests they receive every month.

Last year, the computer committee implemented a new procedure for requesting computer support. It is the committee's hope that this procedure will enable Kevin and Sean to better prioritize, delegate, and track the hundreds of support requests he receives every month. The new procedure is based on an automated tracking system (Gemini) that will provide three major benefits:

1. A single point of access, accessible right from your desk, for requesting computer support. 2. A centralized system allowing the NetAdmins to manage, prioritize, and track support requests as they progress. 3. Statistical analysis of resolved issues that will identify problem areas such as understaffing, support of obsolete hardware that should be replaced, and so forth.

The committee is now ready to put these new procedures into practice, so we are requesting your support to make this new process as useful as we hope it will be. Beginning today, requests for computer support should be submitted through the web form available at this address:

http://server.osuesl.net/GeminiAssist/geminiSubmit.aspx

Remember to bookmark this URL for your use in the future. The request form is also linked on the ESL's website as well as the "Contact us" page.

You are strongly encouraged to resist the temptation to go to Room 120 in person for "immediate" technical support. Not only does this divert Kevin and Sean's attention from what they are currently doing, but it defeats the entire idea of the queue-based system. We hope that through this new procedure, and with your patience, everyone's issues will be addressed in a more timely fashion.

Mon, Apr 17, 2006

New Integrated Optics Course Offered Autumn '06

Professor Ron Reano will be leading a new course on Integrated Optics starting this fall.

This course is listed as ECE694H "Integrated Optics" and will cover the fundamentals of planar lightwave circuits and guided wave devices. It is a 3 credit hour course. You can find more information on this class on the courses page of this site.

Mon, Apr 17, 2006

Prof. Jin-Fa Lee to Receive Lumley Research Award

Professor Jin-Fa Lee has been chosen to receive the Lumley Research Excellence Award this year and will be recognized at the annual College of Engineering Awards Banquet held during Spring Quarter

The Lumley Research Award recognizes the research contributions of College faculty and staff each year. You can find more information on this award at: http://www.eng.ohio-state.edu/awards/facawards/index.php

Wed, Apr 05, 2006

IEEE AP/MTT -Columbus Officers Elected

Two Existing ESL members and one former ESL member have been elected as the new officers for the joint IEEE AP/MTT Columbus Chapter.

Please join us in welcoming Michael Carr - Chairman, Kubilay Sertel - Vice Chairman, and Ron Reano - Secretary/Treasurer to their new positions.

Mon, Mar 20, 2006

ESL Student Receives ACES Paper Award

Brian Usner, a 2006 Graduate of ESL, received Third Prize at the 2006 ACES Conference Student Paper Competition held in Florida. For more details, click

His paper was entitled, "A Hybrid Volume Surface Integral Equation Method for Periodic Media and Metamaterials" and he was co-adivised by Dr. Kubilay Sertel and Prof. John Volakis.

Mon, Mar 20, 2006

ESL Student Wins EMC-Zurich Paper Award

Mr. Kezhong Zhao, an ESL Student, has won First Place in the Student Paper Competition at the 17th Annual International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility held in Singapore. For more details, click

His paper is entitled, "An Accelerated Non-Conforming DP-FETI Domain Decomposition Method for the Analysis of Large EMC Problems", and his Advisor is Prof. Jin-Fa Lee.

Sun, Mar 19, 2006

ESL Receives AFSOR DURIP Award for 2006

The ElectroScience Lab has been awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's (AFOSR) DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP) Award for 2006. For more details, click

This award has been earmarked to purchase equipment that will be used for material fabrication and processing, and, coupled with the MRI equipment for RFIC measurements, is a significant investment in experimental activity at ElectroScience Lab and the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Congratulations to Prof. Ron Reano and Prof. Henk Verweij for winning this award.

Mon, Jan 16, 2006

Anderson Named 2006 TopCat Award Winner

Betty Lise Anderson, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named TopCAT Outstanding Woman of the Year by TechColumbus for her outstanding achievements in technology. Professor Anderson conducts research in the general areas of photonics and optical engineering, and published Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices, 1 st edition (McGraw-Hill) in 2005.

TopCAT stands for Top Contributors to the Advancement of Technology. Award winners were drawn from more than 300 nominations. The Janaury 12 event was organized by TechColumbus, which was formed in October from the merger of the Columbus Technology Council and the Business Technology Center. It’s also linked to SciTech, the developer of Ohio State University’s research park. TechColumbus’ mission is to accelerate the development of technology businesses in the region and assist existing companies to use technology to become more competitive.

Tue, Jan 03, 2006

Student Paper Wins IEEE Award

We are pleased to announce that Yakup Bayram's student paper at the 2005 IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility(IEEE EMC) conference this week was a runner-up for "Best Paper", and received the Leo L. Beranek Student Grant Award.

The paper's title is "A Novel Technique for Concurrent On & Off - Board EMI Analysis of RF-Digital Circuits via Hybrid Scattering Parameters", by Y. Bayram, J. Volakis and P. Roblin.

Mon, Jan 02, 2006

ESL Power Outage

As the Renovation of ESL comes to a close, the construction crews needed to shut the building power off so that they could safely hook up some major electrical equipment. Click here for details of what was turned off and when.

Mon, Jan 02, 2006

A New Book Published by ESL Faculty

Professors Betty Lise Anderson and Richard L. Anderson's text "Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices" provides a realistic and practical treatment of modern semiconductor devices. With a solid understanding of the physical processes responsible for the electronic properties of semiconductor materials and devices, the reader will appreciate the underlying physics behind the equations derived and their range of applicability. (McGraw-Hill, publisher)

Sun, Jan 01, 2006

Marinos Vouvakis Wins IEEE Paper Award

Please join me in expressing our congratulations to Ph.D. student Marinos Vouvakis and his Advisor Dr. Jin-Fa Lee for winning a "Best Paper" award (3rd place) for their paper entitled, "A Finite Element Domain Decomposition Technique For The Analysis Of Large Electromagnetic Problems" presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium held in Washington, DC.

This very competitive award is given to the top 3 papers from a set of 88 student papers that entered the competition in January 2005. This year, the conference proceedings included 1777 papers.

Our best wishes are also with you as you begin your career at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst this Fall.

John L. Volakis
Chope Chair Professor
Electrical and Computer Enginnering Dept.
Director, ElectroScience Laboratory
http://www.ece.osu.edu/~volakis

Thu, Apr 28, 2005

NASA Fellowships Awarded to ESL Students

Congratulations Jeff Kula, and Brian Usner for each being awarded the very competitive NASA Fellowship for 2005-2006.

Jeff and Brian had to write a 5-page proposal to NASA on their research work to be considered for the Fellowship award Their research topics are Kula: Antennas in Complex Media Usner: Novel Higher Order Volume Integral Formulation for Designing Metamaterial Antennas and Periodic Structures Congratulations to Jeff and Brian

Mon, Jan 10, 2005

Compatible Discretizations of Maxwell's Equations

Compatible Discretizations of Maxwell's Equations by Bo He

Mon, Dec 20, 2004

Happy Holidays!

The ElectroScience Laboratory hopes everyone has a Happy Holiday Season!

Thu, Dec 09, 2004

Planned Service Outage

NEW! .... In order to finalize some setups, we need to shut down this server again Friday afternoon.

The plan is to shut it down at 5:00pm Tomorrow (Friday, December 10, 2004) and have it back on-line by 9:00pm.

Of course, ESL Web, Mail, and FTP Services will be unavailable during that time.

Thanks!

Kevin P. Reaver Network Administrator The ElectroScience Lab at Ohio State University http://esl.eng.ohio-state.edu/~kpr

Thu, Jul 29, 2004

64-Bit Itanium II Beowulf Cluster

The Electroscience Lab now has three ItaniumII, 64-bit Dual-Processor computers operating as a Beowulf Cluster with (6) 1GHz Processors, and 36Gb of RAM.

Some time ago, the Lab had purchased these computers (Similar to those used at The Ohio Supercomputer Center) but we've had several issues getting them to work. (Including a recent system board replacement) However, they are now operational!
If you need an account on this cluster, please submit a request through our Tech Support Interface at: http://server/geminisubmit/submit2.aspx
Also, please note that only current ESL Faculty, Researchers, Students, and Staff may use this cluster.

Wed, Jul 28, 2004

Computer support request is only few clicks away

The computer committee has implemented a new procedure for requesting computer support. It is the committee's hope and Kevin's that this procedure will enable Kevin to better prioritize, delegate, and track the hundreds of support requests he receives every month.

The computer committee has implemented a new procedure for requesting computer support. It is the committee's hope and Kevin's that this procedure will enable Kevin to better prioritize, delegate, and track the hundreds of support requests he receives every month. The new procedure is based on an automated tracking system that will provide three major benefits: 1. A single point of access, accessible right from your desk, for requesting computer support. 2. A centralized system allowing Kevin to manage, prioritize, and track support requests as they progress. 3. Statistical analysis of resolved issues that will identify problem areas such as understaffing, support of obsolete hardware that should be replaced, and so forth. The committee is now ready to put these new procedures into practice, so we are requesting your support to make this new process as useful as we hope it will be. Beginning today, requests for computer support should be submitted through the web form available at this address: http://server.osuesl.net/geminisubmit/submit2.aspx Remember to bookmark this URL for your use in the future. The request form is also linked to from the ESL's website and on the "Contact us" page as well. You are strongly encouraged to resist the temptation to go to Kevin's office in person for "immediate" technical support. Not only does this divert Kevin's attention from what he is currently doing, it defeats the entire idea of the queue-based system the computer committee is trying to establish. The committee hopes that through this new procedure, and with your patience, everyone's issues will be addressed in a more timely fashion.

Mon, Jul 12, 2004

Brad Kramer is a Finalist in APS Student Paper Con

Let's congratulate Brad Kramer for being a finalist in the student paper competition at the 2004 Antennas and Propagation Symposium. As many of you know, APS has an annual competition every year with 60-80 student papers being considered.

Mon, Jul 12, 2004

Brian Usner Wins Fellowship

Brian Usner was awarded a 3-year NASA fellowship to be used toward his PhD thesis. These fellowships are particularly attractive (for U.S. students)and all students are encouraged to look at the Dept of Defense web pages for deadline applications.

Fri, Mar 19, 2004

ESL Team Wins M.U.R.I. Awawrd

A team led by Prof. Volakis won a multidisciplinary university research iniatiative(MURI) award. This MURI research effort is aimed at providing a new paradigm in antenna design methods for exploiting metamaterials and crystal structures to introduce novel, and yet unthinkable antenna designs and related RF components. Prof. Figotin, Univ. of California-Irvine and Prof. Hesthaven, Brown University are part of the multidisciplinary team. Other OSU faculty participating in the MURI are Prof. Jin-Fa Lee, Prof. Robert Lee, Prof. Fernando Teixeira and Prof. Roberto Rojas. The Ohio State Univ. was one of 24 Universities that won this award among the final 116 full proposals that were submitted.

For more information on this program, please see: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20040312-0458.html

Fri, Jan 30, 2004

2003 Annual Report

This has been a year of significant growth for the ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL). As we look back at our activities and accomplishments, ESL continues to make leading edge research and new investments that build upon our existing strengths with an eye toward multidisciplinary research activities.

Click Here For The Complete Report