Gerald Whitman

Gerald Whitman received his BS degree from Queens College, CUNY and his BSEE degree from Columbia University, NY, both in 1963. He earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrophysics in 1967 and 1969, respectively, from the Polytechnic University, which he joined the following year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. In 1970, he became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1978 and then to Professor in 1983. From 1985-1987, he was Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs-Graduate Studies and Research. While in this position, he co-founded the Center for Microwave and Lightwave Engineering and became its Director in 1986 and remained in that position until 1996. In 1996, he became the Associate Chairman for Graduate Studies in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department until 1999. He has served many years as a consultant to industry, municipalities and government research laboratories, and is classified as an expert witness for the U.S. Justice Department. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a senior member of the Electromagnetics Academy, and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. Dr. Whitman’s research interests involve the radiation, propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves; specific applications include periodic and random rough surface scattering, dielectric antennas, millimeter-wave propagation and scattering in vegetation using transport theory, indoor radio wave propagation, transients in dispersive media, and ray optics.. He has published more than 30 technical articles and written several technical reports. Dr. Whitman received the IEEE region 1 Award in 1987 “for his contributions to the theory of plane wave scattering from periodic metal surfaces and wave propagation in vegetation.”

Ph.D.; Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Electrophysics; 1969

M.S.; Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Electrophysics; 1967

B.S.; Columbia University in the City of New York; Electrical Engineering; 1963

B.S.; CUNY Queens College; Physics; 1963

http://web.njit.edu/~whitman

Dr. Whitman's teaching interest is in applications of electromagnetic field theory. As such, he has taught the graduate courses: Microwave engineering, Antenna Theory and Propagation , Radio Propagation Channel for Wireless Systems, Rough Surface Scattering, Microwave Engineering, Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, Numerical Methods in Electromagnetics and undergraduate electromagnetic fields courses.

Dr. Whitman’s research interests involve the radiation, propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves; specific applications include periodic and random rough surface scattering, dielectric antennas, millimeter-wave propagation and scattering in vegetation using transport theory, indoor radio wave propagation, transients in dispersive media, and ray optics.

Whitman, Gerald M, & Wang, Qi, & Spector, Paul, & Schwering , Felix K (2016). Gaussian Beam Scattering From a Deterministic Rough metal Surfacel . IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 64(5), 1868-1876.

Whitman, Gerald, & Wu, Michael Y-C., & Schwering, Felix K. (2010). Propagation and Scattering of Spherical Wave Pulses in Vegetation using Scalar Transport Theory. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation , 58(5), pp. 1662-1676..