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Masters of Applied Science (Electromagnetics)

From September 1999 to January 2002, I performed my graduate studies with the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering, a joint research collaboration between Carleton University and The University of Ottawa. I took a combined six Masters-level courses at both universities (see sidebar).

My thesis research was partially based on my work experience at Nortel Networks, but also integrated much from the microwave theory courses taught by Langis Roy and Pierre Berini. My thesis supervisor was Dr. Jim Wight, chair of the Department of Electronics at Carleton University.

I studied applied electromagnetics and focused on a phenomenon called cavity resonance, where resonant moding can occur in high-frequency modules. My thesis was titled "Mitigating the effects of cavity resonance in ceramic millimetre wave packages".

Sessional lecturer teaching experience

I love electromagnetics, and I love robots: my fourth-year engineering design project was an autonomous six-legged walking robot. I did the Masters on EM, while extending the work that John Knight started by developing cirriculum and teaching two robotics courses to thirty-six lucky (ha!) students.