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Bio

Dean Arakaki received the B.S.E.E. in 1984 from Cal Poly Pomona, M.B.A. in 1989 and M.S.E.E. in 1992 from Cal State Long Beach, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2000 from Penn State University, University Park, PA. He worked in the power electronics area at TRW, Hughes Aircraft Company, and Lockheed Martin (formerly Martin Marietta). He has also worked in the Antenna, Microwave, and Systems Department at Raytheon Systems Company in Goleta, CA.

In the summers of 2002 and 2003, he worked in the Spacecraft Antennas Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA as part of NASA's Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. This work involved the analysis and design of reflectarray antennas used on several spacecraft projects at JPL. In the summer of 2004, he worked in the Radar Analysis Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC as part of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. This work involved the use of a reciprocity-based method in the calculation of the power received by a dual reflector system irradiated by an antenna array located in the far-zone. In the summer of 2006, he worked at Oceanit Laboratories, Honolulu, Hawaii on communications systems operated by the US Marines. This work involved computer modeling of flush-mounted antenna and aperture arrays to replace high-profile dipole and reflector antennas.

He has taught laboratory courses at Penn State both at the University Park campus and at the DuBois branch campus, and has conducted research in the computational electromagnetics area focusing on the analysis of conformal and reflector antennas. He joined the Cal Poly faculty in August 2001 and teaches courses in RF systems, electromagnetics, antennas, and electronic circuits.

Teaching and Research Interests

Computational Electromagnetics
Antennas
RF Circuits

Resources

• Website: Anechoic Chamber