Faculty Profile - Waymond R Scott
Biography
Professor Scott was born in Calhoun, GA. He received the B.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980, 1982, and 1985, respectively.
He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1986 where he teaches and performs research in the area of applied electromagnetics and acoustics. As part of the teaching, he is interested in using computers to enhance the learning experience of students and has developed computer based visualization tools and animations to help students understand some of the more difficult aspects of electromagnetics.
Selected Publications, Patents
Research Interests
- Methods for detecting buried objects using both electromagnetic and acoustic waves
- Measurement of the electromagnetic and mechanical properties of materials
- Transient fields
- Numerical methods including the finite element and the finite-difference time-domain techniques
- Antennas
| Distinctions- Member, IEEE
- 1986 Andrew Chi Prize Paper Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
- First place winner of the 1999 Poster Award at the Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls
- Registered Professional Engineer in Georgia
- 2002 Symposium Prize Paper Award for the best paper presented at the IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- First place winner of the Best Student Paper competition for the paper entitled, "Design and Realization of a Discretely Loaded Resistive Vee Dipole on a Printed Circuit Board", 2003
- Second place winner of the Best Student Paper competition for the paper entitled, "Investigation of the Double-Y Balun for Feeding Pulsed Antennas", 2003
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Last revised on June 06, 2008.
