Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

       Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
       Duke University
       Durham, North Carolina 27708
       Telephone: (919) 660-5281
       FAX: (919) 660-5293
       Email:  wtj@ee.duke.edu
 
 
 
 

Personal Information

     Place of birth: Granite Falls, North Carolina
     Married: Shirley F. Joines
     Children: Laura, Joseph, Stuart, and Shannon

Education

     North Carolina State University                                                                         BSEE
     Duke University                                                                                                MSEE
     Thesis: The Electronic Time Multiplexing of Signal Channels
     Duke University                                                                                                 PhD
     Dissertation: The Characteristic Impedance of Sheilded Strip Transmission Lines

Professional Societies and Honors

• Senior member, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Societies: Microwave Theory and Techniques, Power Electronics, Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Antennas and Propagation
• Bioelectromagnetics Society
• Radiation Research Society
• North American Hyperthermia Society
• Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Bu, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Order of Saint Patrick
• Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1982, 1985, and 1990)

• Electromagnetic field and wave interactions with materials and structures
• Radio-frequency, microwave and lightwave circuits, devices, and systems
• Electromagnetic and optical communication systems

Experience

•  Industrial experience
•  Military experience

Research

•  Research and development programs directed
•  Master theses directed
•  Doctoral dissertations directed
•  Consulting Activities
•  Patents

Publications

•  List of publications 1962~2002
•  Technical conference presentations

Courses Taught

•  ECE 273: Optical communication systems
•  ECE 371: Advanced electromagnetic theory
•  ECE 170L: Electromagnetic fields
•  ECE 275: Microwave electronic circuits
•  ECE 272: Electromagnetic communication systems

Graduate Students

Current graduate students:

•  Guining shi
•  Zhentian Xie
•  Ye Chen

• Yang Zhang
• W. J. Ross Dunseath
• William D. Palmer
• Randall  M. Takemoto-Hambleton
• Arun Balakrishnan
• Joseph E. Mancusi
• Jennifer T. Bernhard
• J. Michael Drozd
• Eric A. Jones
• Florian M. Henke