A Brief History of Computational Electromagnetics in Microwave Engineering—A Personal Retrospective
As the MTT-Society is celebrating seventy years of existence – an age approaching the average human lifespan – the number of members who witnessed the early years of microwave engineering is slowly declining. While their achievements and contributions are well documented, less...
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| description | As the MTT-Society is celebrating seventy years of existence – an age approaching the average human lifespan – the number of members who witnessed the early years of microwave engineering is slowly declining. While their achievements and contributions are well documented, less is known about their perceptions and personal experiences of living through the evolutionary stages of our Society. Yet, this experience is valuable in understanding how and why new ideas and methodologies evolve, survive initial rejection, achieve acceptance, and then either persist or give way to new developments. This personal and hence, subjective retrospective of computational electromagnetics in microwave engineering reflects on the synergy between the evolution of field-theoretical and algorithmic developments, computing science and technology, and microwave technology, particularly during the first decades of the MTT-Society. It also highlights several personal experiences and interactions that have spawned new ideas and initiatives, and thus contributed to the present state of the art in computational electromagnetics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2865e2a4822449eb836fc1c14f5c83b62023-01-06T00:00:47ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Microwaves2692-83882023-01-013133834810.1109/JMW.2022.32210189965567A Brief History of Computational Electromagnetics in Microwave Engineering—A Personal RetrospectiveWolfgang J. R. Hoefer0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4596-0067Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CanadaAs the MTT-Society is celebrating seventy years of existence – an age approaching the average human lifespan – the number of members who witnessed the early years of microwave engineering is slowly declining. While their achievements and contributions are well documented, less is known about their perceptions and personal experiences of living through the evolutionary stages of our Society. Yet, this experience is valuable in understanding how and why new ideas and methodologies evolve, survive initial rejection, achieve acceptance, and then either persist or give way to new developments. This personal and hence, subjective retrospective of computational electromagnetics in microwave engineering reflects on the synergy between the evolution of field-theoretical and algorithmic developments, computing science and technology, and microwave technology, particularly during the first decades of the MTT-Society. It also highlights several personal experiences and interactions that have spawned new ideas and initiatives, and thus contributed to the present state of the art in computational electromagnetics.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9965567/Computational electromagneticselectromagnetic field theorynumerical methodsfrequency domain modelingtime domain modelingmicrowave circuits |
| spellingShingle | Wolfgang J. R. Hoefer A Brief History of Computational Electromagnetics in Microwave Engineering—A Personal Retrospective IEEE Journal of Microwaves Computational electromagnetics electromagnetic field theory numerical methods frequency domain modeling time domain modeling microwave circuits |
| title | A Brief History of Computational Electromagnetics in Microwave Engineering—A Personal Retrospective |
| title_full | A Brief History of Computational Electromagnetics in Microwave Engineering—A Personal Retrospective |
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