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Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2009, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.

Dissertation: "Modeling Multiple Printed Antennas Embedded in Stratified Uniaxial Anisotropic Dielectrics"

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2005, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.

Thesis: "An Integral Equation Technique for Solving Electromagnetic Problems with Electrically Small and Electrically Large Regions"

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2002, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.

Background:

Academia:

• 8/19 – Present,  Professor

Institution        North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Department      Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assignment      Teaching, student advising, curriculum development, research in Applied Electromagnetics, publications, grant writing and service to the department, college, university and region. 

• 8/18 – Present, Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Institution        North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Department      Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assignment      Vision and strategic plan for the department, promote outstanding teaching, research/scholarly activities and service, long-term department curriculum development, staff leadership, staff development, faculty mentoring, student retention, outreach and recruitment.  Managing resources such as personnel time, budget and space. 

• 8/17 – 7/18,      Interim Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Institution        North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Department      Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assignment      On an interim basis provide: Department curriculum development, staff leadership, staff development, faculty mentoring, providing overall vision regarding research, student retention, outreach and recruitment.  Managing resources such as personnel time, budget and space. 

• 8/15 – 8/19,      Associate Professor

Institution        North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Department      Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assignment      Teaching, student advising, curriculum development, research in Applied Electromagnetics, publications, grant writing and service to the department, college, university and region. 

• 8/09 – 8/15,      Assistant Professor

Institution        North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Department      Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assignment      Teaching, student advising, curriculum development, research in Applied Electromagnetics, publications, grant writing and service to the department, college, university and region. 

Industry (full time practicing engineer):

• 2/07 – 7/07,      Optical Engineer

Company         Consolidated Telephone Cooperative, Dickinson ND.
Assignment      Supervised the installation of ‘fiber to the home’ for broadband multi-media applications.  Supervised and maintained existing wireless and fiber communications infrastructure.  Designed optical based sensor networks for industrial alarm applications. 

• 8/06 – 1/07,      Facilities Engineer

Company         Hiland Partners LP, Enid, Oklahoma
Assignment      Supervised the design and installation of medium voltage softstarts, variable frequency drives and substations for industrial gas processing applications.  Supervised the design and installation of wireless sensor networks for monitoring and control of industrial equipment. 

• 5/05 – 5/06,      Research Engineer

Company         Packet Digital LLC, Fargo, ND
Assignment      Designed antennas and power harvesting management circuitry for passive and semi-passive RFID systems.  Assisted in the communication architecture for wireless sensor systems.  Design experience in FPGA and ASIC development with both VHDL and Verilog for power management.

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
• Pi Mu Epsilon – Mathematics Honor Society
• IEEE-HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) – Electrical Engineering Honor Society

• 2018 Recipient of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Fellowship (role: M.S. advisor).
• 2017 NDSU Innovation Challenge winner for PhD Student Sajid Asif (role: Ph.D. advisor).
• 2016 Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology, Grand Forks ND.
• 2015 Recipient of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Student Research award for PhD Student Sajid Asif (role: Ph.D. Advisor).
• 2015 IEEE Senior Member
• 2015 NSF-EPSCOR Doctoral Dissertation Award for PhD Candidate Sajid Asif (role: Ph.D. advisor).
• 2014 NDSU Doctoral Fellowship Award for PhD Candidate Sayan Roy (role: Ph.D. advisor).
• 2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, Best Paper Award (role: faculty mentor).
• 2008-2009 Graduate Research Award for in the College of Eng. and Arch. at North Dakota State University. 
• 2008 Best Student Paper Finalist at the 2008 Int. Symp. on Antennas and Propagation, San Diego, CA. 
• 2007-2008 “Graduate Teacher of the Year” in the College of Eng. and Arch. at North Dakota State University.