University of Calcutta
Which school did Raj Mittra go to from 1950 to 1953?
Raj Mittra Raj Mittra ( born 1 July 1932 ) is an electrical engineering professor at Pennsylvania State University , where he is the director of the Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory of the Electrical Engineering department . His specialty is electromagnetic communication . Biography . Mittra was born in 1 July 1932 , in India . In 1950 , he graduated from Agra College , Uttar Pradesh , with a Bachelor of Science in physics , followed by a Master of Science in radio physics received in 1953 from the University of Calcutta in Kolkata , India and a Ph.D . in electrical engineering in 1957 from the University of Toronto in Canada . Professional career . In 1957 Mittra became a visiting assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois in Urbana , Illinois . In 1961 he was promoted to associate professor , and in 1966 to full professor . At this time he also became the associate director of the Electromagnetics Laboratory . In 1984 , he was named the director of its Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory , and continued to work at the University of Illinois until he retired in 1996 . After a short retirement , later in 1996 Mittra took a professor position at Penn State in the Electrical Engineering Department . He founded and was appointed as the director of its Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory . He still holds these positions in 2013 . He served a one-year term as president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society ( AP-S ) from 1976 to 1977 . He became president of RM Associates , a consulting firm , in 1980 and remains so in 2013 . He was elected to the board of directors of the Electromagnetics Society in 1978 . He was the editor for the Transactions Antennas and Propagation Society from 1980 to 1983 and International Journal of Electronics and Communications from 1975 to 2001 . Research and publications . Mittras research interests include communication antenna design , computational electromagnetics , electromagnetic modeling and simulation of electronic packages , electromagnetic compatibility ( EMC ) analysis , and radio scattering . Books authored or co-authored . - R . Mittra , and S . W . Lee , Analytical Techniques in the Theory of Guided Waves , McMillan and Company , 1971 . - D . Bouche , F . Molinet , and R . Mittra , Asymptotic Methods in Electromagnetics , Springer-Verlag , 1997 . - A . F . Peterson , S . L . Ray , and R . Mittra , Computational Methods for Electromagnetics , The IEEE/OUP Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory and Oxford University Press , 1997 . - Wenhua Yu and Raj Mittra , CFDTD : Conformal Finite-Difference Time-Domain Maxwell’s Equations Solver , Software and User’s Guide , Artech House Publisher , 2004 . - Yinchao Chen , Qunsheng Cao , Raj Mittra , Multiresolution Time Domain Scheme for Electromagnetic Engineering , A John Wiley & Sons , Inc. , Publication , January 2005 . - Wenhua Yu , Raj Mittra , Tao Su , Yongjun Liu and Xiaoling Yang , Parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method , Artech House Publisher , July 2006 . Books edited or co-edited . - R . Mittra , Numerical and Asymptotic Techniques for Electromagnetics , Springer-Verlag , 1975 . - R . Mittra , and H . L . Maanders , Spectral theory of diffraction , Modern Topics in Electromagnetics and Antennas , Peter Peregrines Ltd. , New York , 1977 . - R . Mittra , W . A . Imbriale , and E . J . Maanders , Satellite Communication Antenna Technology , North-Holland , 1983 . - R . Mittra , Computer Techniques for Electromagnetics , Pergamon Press , 1973 . Revised , Hemisphere Publishing Corporation , 1987 . - A . Guran , R . Mittra , and P . J Moser , Eds. , Electromagnetic Wave Interactions With a foreword by Hans A . Bethe , World Scientific , New Jersey , 1996 . - Douglas H . Werner and Raj Mittra , Frontiers in Electromagnetics , IEEE Press , 1999 . Awards . He has received the following awards : - IEEE James H . Mulligan , Jr . Education Medal – 2011 - IEEE Electromagnetics Award – 2006 - AP-S Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award – 2004 - IEEE/AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award – 2002 - IEEE Millennium medal – 2000 - IEEE Centennial Medal – 1984 External links . - Publications - http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raj_Mittra/ - http://www.lapconf.co.uk/guest-speakers - http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/issues/elk-08-16-1/elk-16-1-1-0802-8.pdf