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Rick Spinrad, NOAA Administrator and Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Michael Morgan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction; and Ajay Mehta, Radar Next program Director, toured the ARRC recently, alongside Ken Graham, Director of the National Weather Service, to learn more about the Horus phased array radar.
Several atmospheric scientists and engineers from across the U.S. gathered in Norman to attend a workshop on mmWave Phased Array Radar Technologies for Atmospheric Science, held February 29 at the Sam Noble Museum.
Aiming to illuminate key drivers, unleash innovative applications, maximize current capabilities, and charter technological advancements, the workshop served as a platform for insightful dialogue, collaboration, and envisioning the future of atmospheric science research enriched by mmWave technology and its evolving landscape.
The workshop was organized and hosted by Dr. Jorge Salazar.
ARRC and ECE graduate student Rosalind Agasti has been selected to receive the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for 2024. The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage and support graduate students from around the world who are interested in pursuing studies in the field of microwave engineering. The award will be presented at the 2024 IEEE International Microwave Symposium in Washington DC in June. Rosalind is advised by Dr. Jessica Ruyle.
Rosalind Agasti (ARRC/ECE) has been awarded a 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) Doctoral Research Grant for her proposed project on the Development of a System-on-Aperture (SoA) Front-End using Spatio-Temporal Modulation.
IEEE awards up to ten $4,000 PhD grants annually to encourage students to pursue a career in electromagnetics. Rosalind is advised by Dr. Jessica Ruyle.
Syed Jehangir has been selected as one of six recipients of the Fall 2023 OU Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award. The $5,000 award, designed to foster excellence among doctoral students, supports scholars in the final stages of their Ph.D. studies. Syed’s dissertation is titled, “Ultrawideband Antenna Solutions for Weather Radar Applications”. Congratulations Syed!
Dr. Jay McDaniel, ARRC member and GCoE Assistant Professor, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award.
The award, given annually, recognizes an outstanding young I&M member who has distinguished themselves through achievements which are technical, of exemplary service to the I&M Society, or a combination of both, early in their career. Dr. McDaniel was recognized for outstanding contributions to the advancement of wideband radar cross section measurements in cluttered environments. The award will be presented by I&M President, Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortes, during the 2024 I2MTC conference next spring in Glasgow, Scotland.
Dr. Jay McDaniel is the second U.S. recipient in the past decade.
Congratulations to Dr. Nathan Goodman, GCoE Professor and ARRC Director of Research, on being elevated to the status of Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) organization.
IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.
Dr. Goodman was selected for his contributions to cognitive and distributed radar signal processing.
ECE/ARRC graduate students Rylee Mattingly (pictured on right) and Shane Flandermeyer (pictured on left) placed 1st and 3rd respectively in the Student Paper Competition at the IEEE International Radar Conference held November 6-10 in Sydney, Australia.
"There were 76 entries, so this was a very competitive event", said their advisor, Justin Metcalf (also pictured). "They did a fantastic job defending their work to a panel of judges from the Radar System Panel, including researchers who are literally worlds experts in the exact areas of their papers".
Rylee's paper was titled "Enabling Intra-CPI Frequency Agility Via Backprojection Based Range-Doppler Processing" and Shane's was titled "A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach to Surveillance Resources Management".