April 25: Faculty Lecture Series continues with ‘Antennas and Microwaves for Biomedical Applications’ by Sima Noghanian

“Antennas and Microwaves for Biomedical Applications” by Sima Noghanian, associate professor of electrical engineering, is the next in the Faculty Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 25 at the North Dakota Museum of Art. The lecture is set for 4:30 p.m. with a 4 p.m. reception preceding the talk.

Design of wireless sensors and devices is an emerging area in medical diagnosis and treatment. Wireless sensors and transceivers may be utilized in health-monitoring systems, such as blood pressure, temperature, and heart rate monitoring; deep brain stimulation; and fall-detection. A key component of any wireless device is the antenna. Design of antennas for biomedical systems requires consideration of many challenges, including safety, miniaturization, and performance optimization. This talk provides an overview of the state-of-the-art biomedical antennas, and in particular the recent research activities in the Applied Electromagnetics Engineering Laboratory (AEMEL) at UND on wearable and implanted antennas.

About the presenter
Sima Noghanian is an associate professor of electrical engineering whose expertise is on applied electromagnetics and antenna design for various applications. Her research interests include design of 3D, textile, flexible and wearable antennas, wireless power transfer, wireless channel modeling, ultra-wideband antennas, and microwave tomography.

Noghanian is a Professional Engineer of the Province of Manitoba. She is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE Antenna Magazine and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. She is also a member of Board of Directors of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) and serves as an associate editor for the ACES Journal. Additionally she is a member of International Union of Radio Science and an Area Editor of the International Journal of Electronics and Communications.

She earned her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2002, which she took at the University of Waterloo.

Prior to joining UND, she was an assistant professor of electrical engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada.

For more information, visit http://und.edu/provost/faculty-lecture-series

This event is open to the public and free parking is available west of the Museum.

Funding for the UND Faculty Lecture Series is provided by the Offices of the President and the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.