Raymond Luebbers
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Dr. Raymond J. Luebbers was Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and Ohio University
, a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin
Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA and founder of Remcom
, Inc.
with High Honors, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from The Ohio State University. He In 1984 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of The Pennsylvania State University. During the 1991-1992 academic year he was an National Science Foundation
Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University
, Sendai, Japan.
, Inc, a company which develops of commercial electromagnetic
analysis software. In December 2001 he resigned from Penn State, retaining the title of Adjunct Professor.
Remcom also performs research and development under contract to government and industry.
It has won awards for innovation. Remcom was one of only five companies to receive a 2001 US Army Small Business Innovative Research Quality Award.
Luebbers retired from Remcom, Inc. in July 2008 but still consults with the company regularly.
. He is co-author of a book called The Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Electromagnetics. He has made invited presentations and presented short courses at several international meetings. The paper "FDTD Calculation of Scattering from Frequency-Dependent Materials," by R. Luebbers, D. Steich, and K. Kunz, received the 1993 Schelkunoff Best Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
He has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice-President of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He is a Member of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission B, and is a member of IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 34 on Electromagnetic Energy Product Performance Safety.
Ohio University
Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...
, a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....
Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA and founder of Remcom
Remcom
Remcom, Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania is a electromagnetic simulation software company founded in 1994.Remcom provides electromagnetic simulation software, and created the first universally usable, Finite-difference time-domain method solver for the commercial electromagnetics market...
, Inc.
Education and academic career
Luebbers received the B.S.E.E. from the University of CincinnatiUniversity of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....
with High Honors, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
from The Ohio State University. He In 1984 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of The Pennsylvania State University. During the 1991-1992 academic year he was an National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University
Tohoku University
, abbreviated to , located in the city of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in the Tōhoku Region, Japan, is a Japanese national university. It is the third oldest Imperial University in Japan and is a member of the National Seven Universities...
, Sendai, Japan.
Remcom
While a professor at Penn State he founded RemcomRemcom
Remcom, Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania is a electromagnetic simulation software company founded in 1994.Remcom provides electromagnetic simulation software, and created the first universally usable, Finite-difference time-domain method solver for the commercial electromagnetics market...
, Inc, a company which develops of commercial electromagnetic
Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature. The other three are the strong interaction, the weak interaction and gravitation...
analysis software. In December 2001 he resigned from Penn State, retaining the title of Adjunct Professor.
Remcom also performs research and development under contract to government and industry.
It has won awards for innovation. Remcom was one of only five companies to receive a 2001 US Army Small Business Innovative Research Quality Award.
Luebbers retired from Remcom, Inc. in July 2008 but still consults with the company regularly.
Research and writing
Luebbers has published in the areas of analysis of frequency selective surfaces, applications of the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, and applications and extensions of the Finite-difference time-domain methodFinite-difference time-domain method
Finite-difference time-domain is one of the primary available computational electrodynamics modeling techniques. Since it is a time-domain method, FDTD solutions can cover a wide frequency range with a single simulation run, and treat nonlinear material properties in a natural way.The FDTD method...
. He is co-author of a book called The Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Electromagnetics. He has made invited presentations and presented short courses at several international meetings. The paper "FDTD Calculation of Scattering from Frequency-Dependent Materials," by R. Luebbers, D. Steich, and K. Kunz, received the 1993 Schelkunoff Best Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
He has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice-President of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He is a Member of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission B, and is a member of IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 34 on Electromagnetic Energy Product Performance Safety.
Awards
- Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
- The paper "FDTD Calculation of Scattering from Frequency-Dependent Materials," by R. Luebbers, D. Steich, and K. Kunz (September 1993 issue of AP-S Transactions) received the Schelkunoff Best Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
Select Publications
- R. Luebbers, A. Smith, S.A. Fast, J.W. Schuster, “A Demonstration of Utilizing High Fidelity Propagation Models for Emitter Localization in Urban Environments,” International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Boulder, CO, January 5–8, 2004.
- R. Luebbers, “Using FDTD To Illustrate the Behavior of Double Negative Materials,” 2003 IEEE International Antennas and Propagation Symposium and USNC/CNC/URS North American Radio Science Meeting, pp. 30, June 2003.
- C. Penney, R. Luebbers, and J. Schuster. "Scattering from Coated Targets Using a Frequency-Dependent, Surface Impedance Boundary Condition," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 44, no 4, pp 434–443, April 1996
- R. Luebbers, "Comparison of Lossy Wedge Diffraction Coefficients with Application to Mixed Path Propagation Loss Prediction", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 36, no 7, pp 1031–1034, July 1988.
- R. Luebbers, "Propagation Prediction for Hilly Terrain Using GTD Wedge Diffraction", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 32, no 9, pp. 951–955, September 1984.
- R. Luebbers, "Finite Conductivity Uniform GTD Versus Knife Edge Diffraction in Prediction of Propagation Path Loss", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 32, no 1, pp. 70–76, January 1984.