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Harold A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award
T HE Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award is presented to the authors of the best applications paper publishedin the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION during the previous year.
The 2014 award was presented to Qi Wu, Clinton P. Scarborough, Bonnie G. Martin, Robert K. Shaw, Douglas H. Werner, ErikLier, and Xiande Wang for the paper “A Ku-Band Dual Polarization Hybrid-Mode Horn Antenna Enabled by Printed-Circuit-Board Metasurfaces,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 1089–1098, Mar. 2013.
Qi Wu received the B.S. degree in microelectronics from Peking University, Peking, China, in2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado,Boulder, in 2005 and 2008, respectively.Currently, he is a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsyl-
vania State University, University Park, PA, USA. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Research Assis-tant at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. From 2009 to 2010, he was a PostdoctoralResearcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University. Hisresearch interests include metamaterials, photonic crystals, plasmonics, nanophotonics, and an-tennas.
Clinton P. Scarborough (S’09) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering fromGrove CityCollege, Grove City, PA, USA, in 2009, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from ThePennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, PA, USA, in 2011.He is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas
Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University,where he has been investigating metamaterial implementations of soft horn antennas andradio-frequency metamaterial lenses. His other research experience includes a summer researchprogram for undergraduates at The Pennsylvania State University, where he explored usinginterdigital capacitors for characterizing high-permittivity thin films.
Bonnie G. Martin received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the College of NewJersey, Trenton, NJ, USA, in 1988 and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 1996.In 1988, she joined the engineering staff of General Electric Aerospace Company, Astro Space
Division, East Windsor, NJ, USA. From 1988 to 1991, she was a Design Engineer, designinghigh-reliability electronics for space missions. Since 1996, she has been a Senior Staff Engineer,who has been with LockheedMartin Space Systems Co. (formerly RCA and GE Aerospace), New-town, PA, USA. She has experience designing and qualifying high-reliability electronic hardwarefor space environments, with a particular focus on R&D, technology readiness level (TRL) ad-vancement, and affordable product transition from research and development to space flight. Shehas authored and co-authored several conference papers, technology proposals, and technical re-ports. She is the primary inventor of several Lockheed Martin Trade Secrets and currently has fourpatent applications in process. Recent research topics of interest include active phase array systems
for space and the implementation of metamaterials for cost, size, weight, and power (C-SWAP) reduction.
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Robert K. Shaw received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from The Pennsyl-vania State University, University Park, PA, USA, in 2005 and 2007, respectively.He was a Research Assistant at the Computational Electromagnetics and Antenna Research Lab
(CEARL), The Pennsylvania State University, from 2003 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been anRF Engineer for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Newtown, PA, USA, designing antennas andwaveguide components for satellites. He has authored and coauthored 12 journal and conferencepapers. His areas of research have included active array antennas and metamaterials.
Douglas H.Werner (F’05) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering andthe M.A. degree in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), UniversityPark, PA, USA, in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively.He is the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical En-
gineering, The Pennsylvania State University. He is the Director of the Computational Electromag-netics and Antennas Research Lab as well as a member of the Communications and Space SciencesLaboratory (CSSL). He is also a faculty member of the Materials Research Institute (MRI), ThePennsylvania State University. He holds seven patents, has published more than 500 technical pa-pers and proceedings articles, and is the author of eight book chapters with four additional chapterscurrently in preparation. His research interests include theoretical and computational electromag-netics with applications to antenna theory and design, phased arrays, microwave devices, wirelessand personal communication systems, wearable and e-textile antennas, conformal antennas, recon-figurable antennas, frequency-selective surfaces, electromagnetic wave interactions with complex
media, metamaterials, electromagnetic bandgap materials, zero and negative index materials, fractal and knot electrodynamics,tiling theory, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and particle swarm optimization. He is a former Associate Editor of Radio Sci-ence and an Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. He edited a book Frontiers in Electromagnetics (IEEE Press,2000). He has also contributed a chapter for a book entitled Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms (Wiley Inter-science, 1999) as well as for the book entitled Soft Computing in Communications (Springer, 2004). He has recently coauthoreda new book entitled Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics (Wiley/IEEE, 2007). He has also contributed an invited chapter on“Fractal Antennas” for the new edition of the popular Antenna Engineering Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2007) as well as a chapteron “Ultra-Wideband Antenna Arrays” for a book entitled Frontiers in Antennas: Next Generation Design and Engineering (Mc-Graw-Hill, 2011).Prof. Werner is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), URSI Commissions B and G, the Applied Computational
Electromagnetics Society (ACES), Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of a College of EngineeringPSES Outstanding Research Award and Outstanding Teaching Award in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He was also presentedwith an IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section Millennium Medal. In 2009, he received the PSES Premier Research Award. He isa Fellow of the IET (formerly IEE), and the ACES. He was presented with the 1993 Applied Computational ElectromagneticsSociety (ACES) Best Paper Award and was also the recipient of a 1993 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) YoungScientist Award. In 1994, he received the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Outstanding PublicationAward. He was a coauthor (with one of his graduate students) of a paper published in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS ANDPROPAGATION, which received the 2006 R. W. P. King Award. In 2011, he received the inaugural IEEE Antennas and PropagationSociety Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award. He has also received several Letters of Commendation from the PennsylvaniaState University Department of Electrical Engineering for outstanding teaching and research.
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Erik Lier (F’05) received theM.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 1976 and 1982, respectively.In 1977, he joined the faculty at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology as a Sci-
entific Assistant and was a Research Scientist there with the Electronics Laboratory from 1978to 1990, where he carried out national and international projects (European Space Agency/ESA,INTELSAT, INMARSAT) in the area of microwave antennas, direct broadcasting satellite (DBS)technology, digital beamforming networks, and phased-array antennas. He was a co-inventor of theconcept “soft and hard EM surfaces.” In 1989, he spent one year as a Scholar with the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles. Since 1990, he has been with Lockheed Martin (LM) Commercial SpaceSystems (former RCA and GE Aerospace), Newtown, PA, USA, as a Principal Antenna Engineerand Technical Fellow. He has been involved in the design of various satellite antenna componentsand systems, and has been a technical consultant and reviewer on various satellite programs. Hewas instrumental in bringing shaped reflector technology to the company in 1992, resulting in win-
ning ASIASAT-2. He lead the antenna element development that was a discriminator for winning GPS IIRM and later GPS IIIsatellite programs. He has been involved in phased-array antenna system trades and has been leading the development of arrayantenna hardware as well as software for array analysis, synthesis, and calibration. In 2008, he initiated and has since been headingup the internal metamaterials research collaboration effort within LM, and is also engaged in an extensive collaboration effort withuniversities. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal and conference papers and holds 21 patents with multiplepatents pending. He is currently authoring a chapter in the Reflector Antenna Handbook (Artech House) on “Soft and hard hornantennas.” His main research interest is in active phased-array antennas, and since 1993, he has been a main contributor and leaderin the development of this technology within the company.Dr. Lier received the 1993 GE technical excellence award for introducing shaped reflector antenna technology to the company,
and the LM Space Systems Company Publications award in 2010
Xiande Wang (M’03–SM’09) received the B.Sc. degree in radio physics from Lanzhou Univer-sity, Lanzhou, China, in 1989, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering fromXi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 1996 and 2000, respectively.Currently, he is a Research Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering and the
Material Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), The Pennsylvania State Univer-sity, University Park, PA, USA. From 1989 to 2001, he was an Assistant Engineer, an Engineer,and a Senior Engineer in the China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation (CRIRP). From2001 to 2006, he was a Research Scientist in the Temasek Laboratories, National University ofSingapore. His research interests include numerical techniques and fast algorithms for computa-tional electromagnetic metamaterials, the spatial-domain Green’s function for multilayered media,electromagnetic scattering and radiation in complex media for applications in antennas and fre-quency-selective surface, scattering cross-section predication for complex objects in complex en-vironments, as well as wave propagation and scattering of random media and rough surfaces and
their applications in target detection and microwave remote sensing.Dr. Wang is a Senior Member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics and a Member of the Chinese Institute of Space Science. He
is a reviewer for papers in the IEEE Antennas and PropagationMagazine, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ONANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION,Radio Science, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, and the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications.
