Dr. Furses Home Page

Professor of Electromagnetics

Director, Center of Excellence for Smart Sensors

Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, ECE Department

Courses	Student Research Opportunities	Biographical Information
Research	Commercialization Impact	K-12

Contact Information

Phone:	(801) 585-7234 / 581-6941
My Office:	MEB 3102 (3rd Floor, SW corner) Office Hours
E-mail:	cfurse@ece.utah.edu
Fax:	(801) 581-5281
Mailing Address:	Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 50 S. Central Campus Drive, 3280 MEB University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Phone: (801) 581-6941
Home Page:	http://www.ece.utah.edu/~cfurse Map from airport Hotels, maps, etc.
Resume	University of Utah Photobank and Play SLC

Research

	Intermittent Live Fault Location for Aircraft Wiring Detect and locate open and short circuits to within a few centimeters Detect and locate arc fault damage Detect faults on live wires in flight SSTDR chip for fault location Acousto-optical methods for aircraft wiring faults
	Antenna Design and Optimization Antennas for Medical Implants Multiband Antenna Systems MIMO Antenna Designs Numerical Bio-Electromagnetic Simulation and Optimization
	Engineering Education Department-Level Reform: System-Level Design Curriculum Write-to-Learn in Engineering Outreach, Recruitment and Retention Electromagnetics Education

Student Research Opportunities

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Engineering Honors Degree

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Graduate Research Opportunities Dependent on available funding

Commercialization Impacts

LiveWire Test Labs, Inc. (Spin Off Company)

Center of Excellence for Smart Sensors

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Courses

ECE 3300 Introduction to Electromagnetics

ECE 5325/6325 Wireless Communication

ECE 5340/6340 Numerical Techniques in EM

ECE 5320/6320 Microwave Engineering I

Other EM Courses and Advising Information

Short Courses and Tutorials

FDTD for Bioelectromagnetics

Tutorials

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Biographical Information

Dr. Furse received her B.S. in electrical engineering with a mathematics minor in 1985, M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1988, and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 1994. She is currently a professor at the University of Utah and has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, antenna design, and introductory electrical engineering. Dr. Furse works to interest young students, particularly women and minorities in engineering and routinely volunteers in Utah's K-12 schools as an engineering mentor, science educator, and engineering career guidance counselor and is active with the Society of Women Engineers, Junior Engineering State, Expanding your Horizons, School-to-Careers, MESA, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Dr. Furse was the Professor of the Year in the College of Engineering at Utah State University for the year 2000. She is the Director of the Center of Excellence for Smart Sensors, an active, funded research program including electromagnetics for biology and remote sensing. The Center focuses on imbedded antennas and sensors in complex environments, including sensors for location of faults on aging aircraft wiring and telemetry systems in the human body. Dr. Furse has directed the Utah “Smart Wiring” program, sponsored by NAVAIR and USAF, since 1998. She is Chief Scientist for LiveWire Test Labs, Inc., a spin off company commercializing devices to locate intermittent faults on live wires.

Resume

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Distinctions

· IEEE Fellow

· College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, 2008, University of Utah

· Finalist, Stoel Rives Utah Innovation Awards, Computer and Electronics Division, LiveWire Test Labs, Inc., 2008

· Distinguished Young Alumnus, University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2008

• Utah State University Outstanding Faculty Employee, 2001
• Teaching Excellence of the Year 2000, USU College of Engineering
• Outstanding Teacher of the Year, USU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1998-99 & 1999-00
• Outstanding Advisor of the Year, USU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2000-01 & 2001-02
• Outstanding Researcher of the Year, USU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2000-01
• Director, Center of Excellence for Smart Sensors
• Chair, Education Committee, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• Associate Editor, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
• Associate Editor, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal
• Founding Member of Editorial Board, Journal-Smart Structures & Systems
• Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

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Personal Interests

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Last revised: August 2007