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Students pose with their constructed antennas as the final project for the antennas course at OU. These antennas were designed using standard, readily available materials such as aluminum foil. All designed antennas successfully received many of the available television channels in the Oklahoma City metro area - outperforming a standard antenna that can be purchased for over-the-air television reception.
The University of Oklahoma seeks an exceptional, dynamic leader to serve as Director of its Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC). The ARRC Director provides intellectual leadership in a multidisciplinary environment. The Director works in collaboration with private industry and federal agencies and carries out a vigorous program of teaching, research, and service that attracts exceptional students and prepares them to become future leaders in the development and application of advanced radar technologies.Click here for more information.
Overview: Professors at the University of Oklahoma (OU) invite potential graduate students to visit OU’s Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC). The goal is to recruit students interested in seeking an advanced degree in one or more of the three research areas listed below. Travel and lodging support are available.
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The PX-1000 has been deployed in South Korea near Gwangju earlier this week and was greeted by light snow. This is a joint effort between the SELab and ARRC to study winter QPE (Quantitative Precipitation Estimation).
Dr. Guifu Zhang is the winner of the 2013 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research and scholarship, an annual award recognizing exceptional accomplishment in research or scholarship in the previous calendar year. Dr. Zhang was nominated for his outstanding efforts and intellectual leadership on radar research and scholarship within the School of Meteorology and the Advanced Radar Research Center
ECE student, C. Justin Smith, was awarded the Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). The purpose of this scholarship is to attract BS and MS students to the microwave and RF discipline, and to encourage them to pursue a job in the field or a PhD degree in this field. Justin is currently working on high-efficiency power amplifier design for C-Band airborne telemetry supervised by Professor Sigmarsson.
Xining Yu will present "Real-time MPAR Digital Backend: Initial Studies and Analysis of Challenges" this coming Thursday, November 7, 2013 in the National Weather Center, Room 1350.
NASA Headquarters granted a new award to Yang Hong, JJ Gourley, Qing Cao and Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter for the research project titled, "Using NMQ Ground-based Radar to Improve Passive-Only Precipitation Profile Retrievals for PATH" at the University of Oklahoma.
The Weathernews Inc. (WNI) and the University of Oklahoma held it's 3rd workshop on WNI/OU collaboration through Innovative & Applicable "TORIKUMI" on Oct 11th, 2013 at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK. This workshop shared results from the Oklahoma Innovation Center and WNI, discussing future collaborations between WNI and OU.
The International Symposium on Earth-Science Challenges (ISEC) held its 3rd Summit between The University of Oklahoma (OU) and Kyoto University (KU) in Uji, Kyoto, Japan from Oct 3-5, 2013. ISEC successfully brought together scientists and engineers from around the world to share recent advances in the study of the Earth. VPRs, Advisors, Professors and Students from several colleges within OU attended the conference to help encourage related research and educational activities, contributing to the increase of young researchers and students from previous summits. Areas of interests at the the Symposium were: Earth Science: Atmosphere, Oceans and Biosphere; Radar and Satellite Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere; Hydrometeorology and the Water Cycle; Modeling and Data Assimilation; Weather and Climate Variability.