Date: Monday, February 20, 2023

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Location: Van Leer, WC240

Speaker: Paul Steffes

Speakers' Title: Professor Emeritus

Speakers' Affiliation: Georgia Tech School of ECE

Seminar Title: An Academic Career

Abstract: Professor Steffes joined the faculty in ECE (EE) at Georgia Tech in 1982. His long career has focused on microwave and millimeter-wave systems for remote sensing of the atmospheres of planets (including Earth!) and for space communications. This talk gives a timeline for an academic career, showing the diversity of activities that can occur in the life of a faculty member.

Biographical Sketch of the Speaker:

In 1982, Dr. Steffes joined the faculty of Georgia Tech and is currently a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on microwave and millimeter-wave remote sensing and radio astronomy and has been sponsored by NASA, the NSF, the SETI Institute and by industry. He has been involved with numerous NASA missions, including Pioneer-Venus, Magellan, the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), the High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS), and Juno (Jupiter Polar Orbiter).

Research interests: 

• Microwave systems for remote sensing of planetary atmospheres and surfaces
• Laboratory measurements of the microwave and millimeter-wave properties of terrestrial and planetary atmospheres
• Radio Astronomy
• Satellite Communications and Navigation Systems
• Radio spectrum Allocation and Usage
• Non-invasive monitoring of glucose in the human body