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Dr. Basile Panoutsopoulos
 
   

Statement of Research Plan by Basile Panoutsopoulos, PhD
 

Dear Members of the search committee:

The function of a college teacher is to transmit the scientific knowledge and increase it too through scholarly activities. For my part, I plan to continue advancing the scientific knowledge, in my area of expertise, through Research. The research will be conducted with my students. The results will be reported in conferences and professional journals through papers coauthored by the students and myself.
Establishing the necessary background to sustain a research environment:

In order to realize my plans, I shall:

Establish an undergraduate pair of Teaching and Research laboratories in my area of expertise for the needs of undergraduate students:

Undergraduate Electromagnetics and Applications Teaching Laboratory.
Undergraduate Electromagnetics and Applications Research Laboratory.

Establish a graduate pair of Teaching and Research laboratories in my area of expertise for the needs of graduate students:

Graduate Electromagnetics and Applications Teaching Laboratory.
Graduate Electromagnetics and Applications Research Laboratory

The same physical space can house all four laboratories. I prefer the undergraduate students to work in the same space with the graduate students because this arrangement will benefit the students; the senior students will transmit to the junior students and to each other the knowledge accumulated, such as the operation of various equipment available in the laboratory, and the projects supported and under consideration. Additionally, undergraduate students will be exposed to graduate research and I expect to win a few of them to continue for graduate studies.

The laboratories will be established, furnished and equipped through funds I will seek from, the University, the State, The Federal Government, various Agencies, Companies, and the local industry. I give special attention in developing a close long-term relationship with the local industry because I expect to get from it:

Students to complete their studies.
To further their studies.
To work projects of common interest.
To get donations of equipment.
To conduct in house courses.

A modern engineering laboratory will not be complete if it is not equipped with personal computers that run simulation software. The construction of a prototype is a time consuming and expensive proposal. A simulation-based study of feasibility is desirable before the construction of a prototype. A number of software packages are available in various aspects of Electromagnetics. I am very familiar with this process because I have been the manager of the Virtual Test Facility (VTF), which is a simulation laboratory, for the past six years. Companies provide heavy discounts to the professional versions of their products, or they make available, free of charge, light versions of their software packages that are adequate for the needs of a course, both lecture and laboratory.
Current Status of my Research Interests:

My research falls into two related but different broad areas: Educational and Technical.

Educational:

With respect to the educational topics, I am interested in educational methods of disseminating the knowledge, effectively and productively. I have written a number of educational papers and I have a number of them under development.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Lecture and Laboratory - Analysis and Synthesis: An Integrated Approach. American Society for Engineering Education. Middle Atlantic Section 1994 Fall Meeting.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Simulation of Digital Logic Gates and Generation of Timing Diagrams and Truth Tables. International Conference on Simulation in Engineering Education. 1994.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. A Computer Aided Approach to Synthesis and Simulation in Design Projects. American Society for Engineering Education. Middle Atlantic Section 1993 Fall Meeting.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Conservation of Energy: Illustration Through the Operation of a Roller Coaster on a Cosinusoidal Track. Applied Mathcad. Vol. 2, No 3, Fall 1993.
B. Panoutsopoulos. Analog Simulation Using a Personal Computer. Computers in Education '91. Conference New Orleans, LA.

I have authored two chapters of a forthcoming Handbook of Applied Electrical Engineering, published by IEEE Press / Wiley.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Standards and Calibration in IEEE Press/Wiley Handbook of Applied Electrical Engineering. Submitted for review. To be published in 2005.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Error Analysis in IEEE Press/Wiley Handbook of Applied Electrical Engineering. Submitted for review. To be published in 2005.

I have ready the first draft of an undergraduate book in Electromagnetics. I am looking for the Academic environment that will allow me to complete it. The three parts of the book reflect my philosophy of Lecture – Recitation – Laboratory.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Classical Electromagnetic Theory and Practice. - Textbook. Under preparation.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Classical Electromagnetic Theory and Practice. – Student’s Solution Manual. Under preparation.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Classical Electromagnetic Theory and Practice. - Experiments. Under preparation.

I have given a number of in house presentations at the NUWC. I plan to organize a Departmental or School weekly or Monthly Colloquium and invite people that will present topics that will benefit students and instructors.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Principles of Error Analysis. Brown Bag Seminar. Electromagnetics Department. Thursday 24th February 2005. Mezzanine. Building 1319.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Fractal Antennas: Theory and Applications. Brown Bag Seminar. Electromagnetics Department. Thursday 9th January 2003. Mezzanine. Building 1319.

I have been an occasional Reviewer for a number of Magazines.

I have been an evaluator for the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) for the past five years.

Technical:

With respect to the technical topics, I am interested in modeling the physical word and through that understand the behavior of Nature. I see Mathematics as the language of Nature, and Nature as the field to speak Mathematics. I have published a number of papers on modeling a Two Dye Mixture Laser operating near the infrared based on my graduate research.

 

M. Ali, B. Panoutsopoulos, S. A. Ahmed. Potential and Limitations of Energy Transfer Processes in Pulsed and CW Dye Laser Mixtures: Comparison of Theory and Experiments. Journal of Applied Optics. Vol. 31, No. 33, pp. 1100-1107, 20 November 1992.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos, M. Ali, S. A. Ahmed. Experimental Verification of a Theoretical Model for Continuous Wave Energy Transfer Dye Mixture Lasers in the Near Infrared. Journal of Applied Optics. Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 1213-1216, 20 March 1992.

 

M. Ali, B. Panoutsopoulos, S. A. Ahmed. On the Feasibility of Generating Argon CW Laser Pumped Energy Transfer Dye Laser Emission in the Near IR Spectral Region. Journal of Applied Optics. Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 312-316, 20 Jan. 1991.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos, M. Ali, S. A. Ahmed. CW Energy Dye Laser in the Near Infrared, Simulation and Experimental Results. CLEO '91. Proceedings, Session CTHR3, pp. 429-430, Washington, DC, 1991.

 

S. A. Ahmed, B. Panoutsopoulos, M. Ali. Theory, Simulation and Performance of CW Energy Transfer Dye Mixture Lasers. Laserion. June 1991, International Laser Symposion, Munchen, Germany.

 

S. A. Ahmed, B. Panoutsopoulos, M. Ali. CW Energy Transfer Dye Laser in the Near Infrared. Proceedings of "Lasers '90". Conference in San Diego, CA.

I have conducted a number of studies with results either unpublished or published as short Reports. I plan to rework, update, and expand these studies and publish the results:

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Shelf-Life Storage Characteristics of Nickel - Cadmium Batteries in the AN/BRT -6. Report. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport. 1996.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Tether Dynamics for a Wind Loaded Antenna. Report. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport. 1995.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Numerical Evaluation of the Electric Field around and the Surface Current Density on a Circular Perfect Conductor Due to an Incident Plane Electromagnetic Wave. Report. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport. 1995.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Calculation of Reserve Buoyancy for a Buoy Assembly. Report. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport. 1994.

I received funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) through a Navy (NUWC) In-House Laboratory Independent Research (ILIR) to conduct research on Fractal Antennas. I published three conference papers, I am preparing a report, and I continue to work actively in this area. I am considering a number of fractal structures to be investigated as antennas along with the effect of the fractal structure on the antenna parameters. An Academic environment, that will provide me with the time and resources, will be an appropriate venue to continue my research.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. The Koch Fractal Monopole Antenna in Wireless Network Applications. 2004 Wireless Networking Symposium (WNCG) October 20-22, 2004. The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Fractal Antennas in Wireless Network Applications. 2003 Wireless Networking Symposium (WNCG) October 22-24, 2003. The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.

 

B. Panoutsopoulos. Printed Circuit Fractal Antennas. IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics. June 17-19, 2003 – Los Angeles, California, USA.

  Lately, I am involved in research in the field of the use of polymers in electronics and specifically the use of polymer waveguides as time delay lines. 

Maggie Yihong Chen, Brie Howley, Xiaolong Wang, Panoutsopoulos Basile, and Ray Chen. Integration of Optical Components for Time Delay Module in Advanced Radar. Applications. Invited Talk. International Conference on Optical Communication and Networks.

Xiaolong Wang, Brie Howley, Yihong Chen, Ray Chen, and Panoutsopoulos Basile. Polymer Based Thermo-optic Switch for Optical true Time Delay. SPIE Photonics West Conference, 2005. (Accepted for publication)
   
 Basile.Panoutsopoulos@ieee.org

 

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