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bulletECE Faculty and Students Earn Three Best Presentation Awards at Institute of Navigation Conference. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty and graduate students brought home three best presentation awards from the Institute of Navigation's Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ION GNSS) Conference, held September 22-25, 2009 in Savannah, Georgia.

Andrew O'Brien, Kyle Hayhurst and Professor Inder "Jiti" Gupta received the best presentation award for Session E2 of the ION GNSS Conference for Effects of Rotor Blade Modulation on GNSS Receiver Measurements. O'Brien and Hayhurst are both graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and graduate research associates at the ElectroScience Laboratory. They are advised by Professor Gupta.

ECE Professor Inder "Jiti" Gupta (also with the ElectroScience Laboratory) and Professor Yuan Zheng received the best presentation award for Session A2 of the same conference. The paper, Positioning in GPS Challenged Environments: Dynamic Sensor Network with Distributed GPS Aperture and Inter-Nodal RF Ranging Signals, was co-authored by D.A. Grejner-Brzezinska, I.J. Gupta, K. Huggins, Y. Zheng, H. Sun, and C.K. Toth.

Professor Gupta and Christopher Church, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the best presentation award of Session A5 of the conference for their paper, Calibration of GNSS Adaptive Antennas.

Justin Kasemodel Receives IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Award, Wins Antenna Applications Symposium's Student Paper Contest. Justin Kasemodel, a doctoral student in the Ohio State Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a graduate research assistant at the ElectroScience Laboratory, was selected to receive an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award and won the Antenna Application Symposium’s student paper contest. Kasemodel earned both honors for his research, which aims to create a new, smaller antenna array design paradigm that will enable the creation of smaller, cheaper and more powerful devices capable of communicating with multiple satellites over greater distances.

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award is given annually to a few students worldwide and is based on their potential to become future leaders of the community. The award of $2,500 will be used to support Kasemodel's research project, Realization of a Metamaterial Inspired Low-Profile Ultra Wideband Phased Array Aperture. With space at a premium, there is strong interest to develop a single wideband phased array aperture capable of supporting multiple communication and radar functions simultaneously. Kasemodel's research will demonstrate a new antenna array design paradigm for the smaller unmanned aerial vehicles and ground platforms. His approach aims to create designs that are lighter and thinner than current versions, and are also integrated into the vehicle structure. This new design will enable the replacement of many of the current protruding structures, resulting in smaller, cheaper and more agile unmanned aerial vehicles.

Kasemodel also won the Antenna Application Symposium’s 2009 student paper contest for his paper, A Novel Non-Symmetric Tightly Coupled Element for Wideband Phased Array Apertures, and oral presentation about his research. The award is given for the best student paper and presentation about new or innovative work on antenna design, fabrication, testing, analysis or related topics.

"Justin is very deserving of these awards. In addition to being a top student at Ohio State, he has the ability to see the big picture quickly and solve complex problems with ease and elegance." Kasemodel's advisor, Professor John Volakis, said, "I am certain that he will make lasting contributions to the electromagnetics community."

Kasemodel's research interests include wideband antenna design and measurement techniques, reduced size continuous coverage adaptive GPS arrays, wearable antennas, and the design, fabrication and measurement of planar ultra wideband low-profile phased array apertures capable of wide-angle scanning. He is an Air Force Research Lab Fellow and co-advised by Dr. Chi-Chih Chen and Professor John Volakis.

Kasemodel, a native of Gillette, Wyoming, received his BSEE from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) in 2006. During that time, Kasemodel was a NASA Space Grant Fellow and won 2nd place in the IEEE Region 5 student paper competition for his paper, A Direct Write Antenna for Wearable Applications. (9/09)

bulletThe ECE Department recently recognized retiring professors Dr. Stanley C. Ahalt and Dr. David E. Orin for their many years of service. Dr. Ahalt has been an Ohio State ECE professor since 1987, co-founded the Information Processing Systems Laboratory, and served as executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center since 2003. He received the OSU Lumley Research Award in 1997 and the Ohio State College of Engineering Research Award in 1999. Dr. Ahalt has accepted an appointment as director of the Renaissance Computing Institute and professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. David Orin joined Ohio State in 1981, eventually reaching the rank of Professor in 1989. He is an IEEE Fellow (1993) and received the Expedited Award for Novel Research from NSF in 1987. As a teacher, Dr. Orin has received significant recognition from the students, including the College of Engineering Charles E. MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2003. Following a few months off, Dr. Orin will return to Ohio State as Professor Emeritus to continue teaching and research in the area of robotics. (9/09)

bulletThe 2nd Annual John D. and Alice Nelson Kraus Memorial Student Poster Competition was held prior to the 2009 ECE/EE Reunion . Faculty and alumni voted for their top three favorite entries out of twenty-one total student research posters. The winners were: first place ($500), Samuel Rivera, Biologically-Inspired Face Shape Detection, advisor Aleix Martinez; second place ($300), Justin Kasemodel, Low-Profile Wideband Tightly Coupled Phased Array Apertures, advisor John Volakis; and third place ($100), Digbijoy Nath, High Speed GaN-Based Electronics, advisor Siddharth Rajan. Congratulations to the winners and also to all the other students who entered the competition - they were all great. (9/09)

Congratulations to Joe Cruz, professor of ECE and former Dean of the College of Engineering. He has been selected by the IEEE Education Society to receive the 2009 Education Society Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to engineering education through creative leadership and inspirational teaching. The award will be presented at the 2009 Frontiers in Education Conference to be held in San Antonio, Texas in October. (8/09)

Joe Cruz, professor of ECE and former Dean of the College of Engineering received the 2009 James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal from the IEEE for excellence in engineering education through creative leadership, innovative textbooks, inspirational mentoring and research contributions to circuits, controls and systems. (6/09)

Congratulations to Bob Davis, current director of Nantech West, who has accepted a position as an Adjunct Associate Professor in our department, Robert Burkholder who started his new position in the department as a Research Professor, and to Emre Ertin who started his new position in the department as a Research Assistant Professor. (4/09)

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