Grad Student Receives Best Poster Award at Conference
Electrical engineering graduate student Daniel Schlieter recently won the award for best conference poster at the 2009 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference for his poster “Designing High Impedance Etched Ground GCPW.”
“My poster provides design guidelines to build a novel transmission line that can be used to decrease the size and increase the performance of microwave circuits used in communication and radar systems,” he said. “Because designing at microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies is difficult and more time-consuming, these circuits will be theoretically and experimentally modeled to provide designers with equations, design curves or approximations for rapid design.”
Dr. Rashaunda Henderson, Schlieter’s professor and mentor, noted the practical benefit of his work.
“The idea behind the work in general was to provide our peers with design information if they wanted to use the new transmission line technology,” said Dr. Henderson, an assistant professor of electrical engineering. “Sometimes there’s not enough detail in the literature to repeat an experiment or use the information to apply to your specific problem. We wanted to address that.”
A Ph.D. student and research assistant, Schlieter is studying how to make circuits more flexible to meet rapidly changing communication standards, which require higher speeds and greater bandwidth.
“He is extremely thorough and inquisitive,” Dr. Henderson added. “He goes beyond the point of solving a problem, for example, to getting a complete understanding for himself, which gives him the ability to explain it to others.”
Schlieter plans to gain real-world experience after receiving his Ph.D. in a few years. He hopes to eventually return to academia to conduct research and teach.
