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Prof. Rappaport Wins Radio Club of America “Armstrong Medal”

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Prof. Durgin’s graduate adviser, Ted Rappaport, has just won the Armstrong Medal from the Radio Club of America.  The award, along with a bonus keynote by the award winner, will be presented at the RCA dinner on Saturday, 17 November 2018, in New York City.  From the NYU site:

BROOKLYN, New York, Friday, September 27, 2018 – The Radio Club of America (RCA) announced that Professor Theodore “Ted” Rappaport, founding director of NYU WIRELESS and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, will receive the Armstrong Medal for demonstrated excellence and lasting contributions to radio arts and sciences.

Congratulations, Prof. Rappaport!

Cheng Qi Wins Best Student Paper at IEEE RFID-TA 2018

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Congratulations to Cheng Qi for his paper, “Low-power and Compact Microwave RFID Reader for Sensing Applications in Space”, which has been awarded the best student paper at the IEEE RFID-TA 2018 conference in Macau, SER China.  This work documents Cheng’s work on the RFsat mission with Northwest Nazarene University, which is taking a custom-built GTPG microwave backscatter reader and energy-harvesting tag into space as part of a novel science package.  His co-authors are Prof. Josh Griffin (GTPG alum) and Prof. Durgin.  Well done, Cheng!

Reminder of One of GT’s Great EM Professors

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Prof. Pete Rodrigue received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University. From 1958 to 1968, he worked for the Sperry Microwave Electronics Company in Clearwater, Florida, where he conducted research on properties and microwave applications of ferrites and developed parametric amplifiers and microwave acoustic devices. In 1968, Dr. Rodrigue joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech at the rank of professor and was promoted to Regents’ Professor in 1977. He introduced new microwave courses for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as in continuing education programs.
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Congratulations Tianchong Jiang!

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Congratulations to Tianchong (Michael) Jiang for completing his MS thesis entitled, “Tri-band Object-Resistant Antenna Design.”  Tianchong performed an outstanding original design, build, and test for a triple-band ISM antenna.  Not only did the antenna function well at the target bands, but incorporated object resistance techniques developed at the GTPG.  The methodology will be valuable for designing future antennas in commercial wireless devices.