In recognition of Cynthia Furse’s technical accomplishments and future potential of an outstanding contributor to the area of Computational Electromagnetics, Furse received the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s 2025 Harrington-Mittra Award this summer.
Furse says she learned electromagnetics from a book by Roger F. Harrington, a namesake of the award.
The award comes following Furse’s fundamental contributions to and innovations in the theory and applications of the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method in Bioelectromagnetics.
The professor’s papers include “Spread Spectrum TIme Domain Reflectometry for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection.”
“I chose to donate the honorarium from this award to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Talent Development Fund to contribute to another young engineer who thinks electromagnetics is exciting and magical,” Furse said.
Furse is a Distinguished Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering at the University of Utah.
Among the courses Furse has taught: Introduction to Electromagnetics, Microwave Engineering I & II, Antennas, Computational Electromagnetics, Wireless Communication, Your Smart Phone: How it Works and How it is Changing the World.
A Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), Furse’s technological innovations include pioneering research in the development of telemetry antennas for medical implants.
Furse received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah in 1994.