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Durham, NH
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December 10, 2012

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Kent A.

Chamberlin, Ph.D.

Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering

University of New Hampshire

Kingsbury Hall (voice: 603-***-****,

FAX 862-1832)

Durham,

N.H. 03824 3591

e-mail:

****.**********@***.************

1968 1973

Thesis: Design of a Digital Phase Lock Loop for Airborne Naviga tion

1982 Ph.D.OhioUniversity

Dissertation: VHF Air Ground Propagation

Modeling Professional Experience Summary

1985 Present Professor

at the University

of New Hampshire Dept. of

Electrical and Computer Engineering

2010

(Spring) Visiting Professor:

SRM University, Chennai, India

2000

2001 Fulbright

Distinguished Chair in Antennas and Computational Electromagnetic at the University

of Aveiro, Portugal

1993- 1994 Visiting Prof. at The Pennsylvania State University Department of Electrical

Engineering. One-semester appointment to

the Applied Research Labs

1982

1985 Asst. Prof. at Ohio

University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer ing

1981

(Fall) Visiting Professor

at the FAATechnicalCenter

1977 1981

Senior Research Engineer

with the OhioUniversityAvionicsEngineeringCenter

Personal

United States Citizen, Married,

Three ChildrenResearch Experience

Below is a listing of research

programs participated in along with the sponsoring agency and dates:

Low Cost, High Bandwidth, and Non-Intrusive

Machining Force Measurement System, The National Science Foundation, June 1,

2009- May 31, 2012

The Use of Datacast Signals for Public Safety

Applications, National Institute of Justice, January 2006- December 2007

Data Collection and Analysis of Low Altitude

Propagation Effects for Mobile Radio, U.S. Navy (SPAWAR), Feb. 04- Feb. 05.

Modeling the

Wireless Ground-to-Ground Communication Channel, Department of Justice

(Project 54), June 2001- July 2004.

Distance Education Module Development, part of an

E2T2 (Enhancing Education Through Technology) grant

obtained for the SeacoastProfessionalDevelopmentCenter as part of the No

Child Left Behind program, 8/04- 2/05.

"Digital Air-Ground Link Modeling", Federal

Aviation Administration, 7/1/98-9/30/01.

"Sidewall Dielectric Damage by RIE: Detection by

Scanning Probe Microscopy and the Effect on Signal Propagation", Semiconductor

Research Corporation, 4/1/98-3/31/2001

Development and Evaluation of a Distance Learning

Classroom, Davis

Educational Classroom, 1/99 - 12/99.

Development of the GELTI Propagation Model, Federal

Aviation Administration, 5/96- 9/97.

Electric Field Measurement by Scanning Probe

Microscopy to Detect the Effect of Nanoscale Material

Inhomogeneity on Signal Propagation in High Density Interconnects,

Semiconductor Research Corp., 10/96-12/97.

Propagation Model for Digital Radio in Airborne

Platform, MadenTech (Subcontract from the U.S.

Army), 9/95-9/96.

Development of Digital Signal Processing Techniques

for Avionics Instrumentation Package, Airfield Technologies, 1/95-8/95.

Modeling Propagation Path Loss for the Microwave

Landing System (MLS) Operating on Humped Runways, CTA (subcontract from the

Federal Aviation Administration), 8/89-12/93.

Application of the Finite-Difference, Time-Domain

Approach to aid in the design of low-cost, computer cabinetry that will meet

FCC requirements for Radio Frequency Interference, Digital Equipment Corporation,

6/92-12/93.

Investigation into reflection from terrain and

building surfaces as applied to Microwave Landing System Modeling, CTA (subcontract

from the Federal Aviation Administration), 7/92-9/92.

Capability Enhancement of the COSITE Computer Model

for Use in Air-Ground Communications Facility Design and Telecommunications

Analysis, Information Systems and Networks, Inc. (subcontract from the Federal

Aviation Administration), 10/90-3/92.

Enhancement of FAA Modeling Capabilities, Pabon, Sims, Smith & Associates (subcontract from the

Federal Aviation Administration), 2/87-2/88.

Enhancement of FAA Modeling Capabilities,

Information Systems and Networks, Inc. (Subcontract from the Federal Aviation

Administration, 11/86- 11/87.

Development of a Graphics-Oriented,

Finite-Difference, Time-Domain Code in the C Programming Language, Microsoft

Corporation, Summer, 1988.

Modeling and Validation of VOR and TACAN Errors

Resulting from Near Zone Parasitic Scatterers, Graph-Tech, Inc. (subcontract

from the Federal Aviation Administration), 11/84-8/85

VHF Omni-Range Maintainability and Course Accuracy,

Federal Aviation Administration, 4/85-8/85

Modeling and Validation of VHF Air Ground

Communications Coverage in the Presence of Long Range Radar Antennas, Ohio

University, Graph-Tech, Inc. (subcontract from the Federal Aviation Administration,

11/84-8/85

Microwave Landing System (MLS) Critical Areas Investiga tion,

OhioUniversity, Federal Aviation

Administration, 9/83-11/84

Extension and Validation of the Geometrical Theory

of Diffraction Propagation Model, OhioUniversity, Electromagnetic CompatibilityAnalysisCenter

via Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education, 6/82-1/83

Delivery of GTD Glide Slope Model and Opera tions

Manual, OhioUniversity,

Government of India,

10/83

Study of Glide Slope Signal Derogation Due to

Presence of Aircraft Near Glide Slope Critical Area, Federal Aviation Administration

Electromagnetic

Interference Measurements on Emissions from Industrial, Scientif ic, and

Medical (ISM) Equipment and Their Effects on ILS Localizer Receiv er Perfor mance,

Federal Aviation Administration

Development of Ground to Air Coverage Area

Prediction for VHF/UHF Commu nications, Federal Aviation Administration

Other research efforts include: A

centralized computer monitor system for O Hare Airport (FAA); Development of

the Memory Aided Phase Lock Loop (MAPLL) for use in low freq uency

navigation for NASA; Development of a mathematical model and computer simula tion

for the Memory-Aided, Phase Lock Loop (MAPLL) for the Naval Avionics Facility

in Indianapolis; Evalua tion of Omega navigation receivers for the U.S. Coast

Guard; Investigation of snow effects on the ILS Glide Slope.Consulting (abbreviated)

Remcom, Inc.: Provide engineering support and analysis relating to

electromagnetics modeling efforts.

New Hampshire Public Television: Performed a signal

coverage study as a pre-pilot program to implement datacasting for public

safety applications.

KAI, Inc.: Performed FDTD analysis of heating effects of an

antenna positioned in oil-bearing soil.

Penn State Applied Research Labs: Performed a preliminary

study of coastal effects on HF propagation using FDTD and investigated the use

of GTD for HF air-ground propagation modeling.

City of Willoughby, Ohio: Provided technical and administrative support for

the procurement, flight testing, and installation of a VOR navigation aid.

Raytheon Service Company: Evaluated an existing computer

model of mono-pulse radar perfor mance in a space-frame radome.

Information Systems & Networks Corporation: Aided in

specifying a frequency management strategy for siting multi-channel, air-ground

communication facilities.

Pacific Telecommunications Corporation, Alaskom

Division: Investigated radiation patterns for meteor burst

communication systems. This effort included computer simula tion and airborne

data collection for directional 40 MHz. systems operating in the pres ence of

irregular terrain.

General Electric Company: Analytical and computer modeling

study to access magnetic field behavior due to currents on irregular surfaces.Memberships

IEEE (Senior Member): Antennas and

Propagation Society and Electromagnetic Compat i bility Society, Sigma Xi, Tau

Beta Pi, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), and International

Union of Radio Scientists URSI)Honors

Awarded a Fulbright Distinguished

Chair in 2000

Received a UNH Industrial Research

Consulting Center Research Award

Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in

1993, but was unable to accept because a family member could not take a

requisite vaccine.

Received the Radio Technical

Commission for Aeronautics William E. Jackson Award presented by the FAA Administrator

Professional Service

Associate Editor for IEEE

Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Associate Editor of the

International Journal for Computing

Proposal Reviewer for National

Science Foundation, the National Institute for Health and the American

Association for the Advancement of Science

Session Chair for numerous IEEE

and URSI conferences

Refereed, Invited, and Award-Winning Papers

Keith Spaulding and Kent Chamberlin,

Measurements Relevant to Electrical Energy Transport Both

On and Off Acupuncture Meridians, February 2011, Journal of Complementary and

Alternative Medicine.

Kent Chamberlin, Intermodulation

Product Interference: Theory and Practice, Keynote Address, International

Conference on Communications & Computing (ICCC '10), Chennai, India, April

2010.

Benjamin McMahon, Kent Chamberlin

& Scott Valcourt, Datacasting in the Mobile

Environment, Journal of Networks,

Issue 7, 2008.

Jason Chan, K. Sivaprasad, and Kent

Chamberlin, Modeling Frequency-Dependent Stripline Losses at High

Frequencies, IEEE Trans. Packaging

Materials, March 2007

Kent Chamberlin and Shahaji Bhosle, A Robust Solution for Preprocessing

Terrain Profiles for Use with Ray-Tracing Propagation Models, IEEE Trans. on Antennas & Propagation,

October 2004

Kent

Chamberlin and Maxim Khankin,

Measuring the Impact of In-Vehicle-Generated EMI on VHF Radio Reception in an

Unshielded Environment, Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on

Electromagnetic Compatibility and winner of an Excellence of the Presented Papers

Award, Sendai, Japan

Kent

Chamberlin and Dragan Vidacic,

Analysis of Finite-Differencing Errors to Determine Cell Size When Modeling

Ferrites and other Lossy Electric and Magnetic Materials Using FDTD, IEEE Trans. on

Electromagnetic Compatibility, November 2004

Todd S. Gross, Kevin G. Soucy,

Ebrahim Andideh, and Kent Chamberlin, Detection of Plasma-Induced, Nanoscale Dielectric Constant Variations in Carbon-Doped

CVD Oxides by Electrostatic Force Microscopy, Journal of Applied Physics, 35 (2002) pg. 723-728.

Todd S. Gross, Christopher M. Prindle, Kent Chamberlin, Nazri bin

Kamsah, and Yuanyan Wu,

"Two-dimensional, electrostatic finite element study of tip-substrate

interactions in electric force Microscopy of high density interconnect

structures," Ultramicroscopy

Journal, 87 (2001) pg. 147-154

Kent Chamberlin, Mikhailo Seledtsov, and Petar Horvatic, "Modeling Large and Small-Scale Fading on the DPSK Datalink Channel Using a GTD Ray-Tracing

Model", invited paper, Proceedings of, the 2000 Applied Computa tional

Electromagnetics Symposium, Monterey, Califor nia.

Jennifer Bernhard, Kent

Chamberlin and Chris Williamson, "A Student Perspective

on an Internet-Based Synchronous Distance Learning Course Experience," The Journal of the American Association of

Engineering Education, January, 2000.

Bruce Archambeault, Kent

Chamberlin and Omar Ramahy, "EMC

Modeling of Shielded Enclosures with Apertures and Attached Wires in a

Real-World Environment", Journal of the Applied Computational

Electromagnetics Society

Kent Chamberlin, Terrain-Effect Modeling

Using the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, invited paper, The Radio Science

Bulletin, International Union of Radio Science, March, 1997.

Kent

Chamberlin, An Automated Approach for Implementing GTD to Model

2-Dimensional Terrain Effects at Microwave Frequencies, IEEE Transactions on

Electromagnetic Compatibility, February, 1996

Kent

Chamberlin and Lauchlan Gordon,

Modeling Good Conductors Using the Finite-Differ ence, Time-Domain Tech nique,

IEEE

Transactions on Electromagnetic Compati bility, Vol. 37, No. 2, May,

1995.

Kent

Chamberlin, Ken Komisarak, and

Kondagunta Sivaprasad, A Method of Moments Solution to the Twisted-Pair

Transmission Line, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compati bility, February,

1995.

Kent

Chamberlin, Overview

of Terrain-Effect Modeling Using the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction,

Invited Paper, Proceedings of the 1994 Beyond Line of Sight Conference, University of Texas, August, 1994.

Kent

Chamberlin, Applications For Theory of Re-Radiation By

Non-Linearly Terminated Antennas, Invited Paper, Proceedings of, the 1993

URSI/IEEE Symposium, Kyoto,

Japan.

R. Luebbers, K. Kunz, and K.

Chamberlin, An FDTD Analysis of Transient Response

from Non-Linearly Terminated Scatterers, IEEE Transactions on

Antennas and Propagation,

Vol. 41, no. 5, May 1993.

Chamberlin, Kent, Computer Modeling Of MLS Signal Strength in The Presence Of

Runway Hump Shadowing, Invited Paper, Proceedings of ANTEM 92 Sympo sium on

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, August, 1992.

Kent

Chamberlin, Jarrett Morrow, and Raymond

Luebbers, Frequency-Domain and FDTD

Predictions of Harmonic Radiation by Nonlinearly-Terminated Dipole, IEEE Trans ac tions on Electromagnetic

Compatibility, November, 1992.

Luebbers, R.J., Kunz, K.S., and

Chamberlin, K., Finite-Difference, Time-Domain

Solution to the Wave Equation for Classroom Applications, IEEE Transactions on

Education, November, 1989 (Special Edition on Electromag netics).

Chamberlin, Kent A., Quantitative

Analysis of Intermodulation Product Interference, IEEE Transactions on

Electromagnetic Compatibility, Novem ber, 1989.

Chamberlin, Kent A., The

Effect of Tree Cover on Air Ground, VHF, Propagation Path Loss, IEEE Transactions on

Communications, September, 1986

Chamberlin, Kent A. and

Luebbers, Raymond J., An Evaluation of Longley- Rice and GTD Propagation

Models, IEEE

Transactions on Anten nas and Propagation, AP 30, No. 6, Novem ber,

1982

Conference Papers (abbreviated)

Todd Gross and Kent Chamberlin, Low Cost, High Bandwidth, and Non-Intrusive

Machining Force Measurement System, Proceedings of 2011 NSF Engineering

Research and Innovation Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

Dan Brogan and Kent Chamberlin, Comparison of Single-Fre quency Monopulse Techniques that Mimic the Results of Multiple-F requency,

Single-Ape rture Interferom etry, 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of

America, Baltimore, MD, April 2010

Dan Brogan and Kent Chamberlin,

Phase and Amplitude Monopulse Techniques to Increase

the Accuracy of Within-Beam Bearing Estimates of Volume Scatterers, 158th

Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2009, San Antonio, TX

Daniel S. Brogan and Kent A.

Chamberlin, Use

of Within-Beam Mapping in Conjunction with Kalman

Filtering to Improve Angle of Arrival Estimation Accuracy in Multi-beam

Echo-Sounding, 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, October

2009, San Antonio, TX

Kent Chamberlin, Andrew

Kun, Scott Valcourt and Benjamin McMahon, Evaluation of Datacasting in the

Mobile Environment,, Invited presentation, the 2008 International Wireless Communications

Expo in Las Vegas, February 2008

Scott A. Valcourt, Pushpa

Datla, Kent Chamberlin, Benjamin McMahon, Information Integration for Public

Safety Officers, in Proceedings of the SPIE Defense & Security Conference,

Orlando, FL, March 2008.

Scott A. Valcourt, Pushpa

Datla, Kent Chamberlin, Benjamin McMahon, Using Two-Way Datacasting to Deliver

Real-Time Public Safety Information, in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International

Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Boston, MA, May 2008.

Kent Chamberlin,

Christopher Glynn, Kondagunta Sivaprasad, "Transmission Line Axon Model

for Acupuncture Therapy," Invited, presented at the 2007 North American

Radio Science Meeting, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Kent Chamberlin, Andrew

Kun, Benjamin McMahon, Scott Valcourt, "Measuring Datacast Channel

Characteristics for the Mobile Environment," Invited, presented at the

2007 North American Radio Science Meeting in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Scott A. Valcourt, Kent

Chamberlin, Benjamin McMahon and Andrew Kun, Systems Engineering of

Datacasting for Public Safety Vehicles, 2007 IEEE Conference on Technologies

for Homeland Security, Woburn,

MA

Kent Chamberlin, Scott A.

Valcourt, Benjamin McMahon and Andrew Kun, "M



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