Women’s History Month Special Article: Interview with “Professor Cynthia Furse”

Authors

  • Sima Noghanian CommScope Ruckus Networks Sunnyvale, CA, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2023.ACES.J.380301

Keywords:

women in applied computational electromagnetics, women in STEM

Abstract

In this article I had the pleasure of interviewing Professor Cynthia Furse. Professor Furse is not only an internationally well-known researcher in the field of computation and applied electromagnetics (EM), but also an innovator in modern teaching techniques, an entrepreneur, an academic leader, and a true mentor for many young professionals in the electromagnetics field.

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Author Biography

Sima Noghanian, CommScope Ruckus Networks Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Sima Noghanian is the chair of ACES Communication and Membership Committee and serves as an Associate Editor of ACES Journal. She received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2002, which she took at the University of Waterloo. She was a researcher at YottaYotta Corporation, Edmonton, Canada. She was an Assistant Professor at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, from 2002 to 2003. From 2003 to 2008, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

She was an Assistant/Associate Professor and the Director of the Applied Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota, USA from 2008 to 2018. She also served as the Electrical Engineering Department Chair from 2014 to 2016 at the University of North Dakota. From 2018 to 2019 she was a visiting professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at San Diego State University, USA. She was an Electromagnetic Application Engineer with Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies Inc. (PADT) (2019-2020), and a Principal Antenna Design Engineering at Wafer LLC (2020-2021). She is currently a Principal Antenna Design Engineer at CommScope. Her research interests include MIMO antennas for wireless communications, wearable and implanted antennas, 3D-printed antennas, wireless power transfer, microwave imaging, and wireless channel modeling.

References

“Livewire Team.” LiveWireInnovation.com. [Online]. Available: https://www.livewireinnovation.com/team/.

C. M. Furse and M. F. Iskander, “Three-dimensional electromagnetic power deposition in tumors using interstitial antenna arrays,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng., vol. 36, October, pp. 977-986, 1989.

C. M. Furse, “cfurse.” YouTube.com. [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/user/cfurse

E. T. Iskander, P. Gore, Jr., C. Furse, and A. Bergerson, “Gender differences in expressed interests in engineering-related fields: ACT 30-year data analysis, identified trends and suggested avenues to reverse trends,” J. Career Assess., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 599-613, Feb. 8, 2013.

“For Students.” nsf.gov. [Online]. Available: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/index.jsp.

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Published

2023-03-31

How to Cite

[1]
S. . Noghanian, “Women’s History Month Special Article: Interview with ‘Professor Cynthia Furse’”, ACES Journal, vol. 38, no. 03, pp. 162–169, Mar. 2023.

Issue

2023: Vol 38 Iss 3

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General Submission

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