Posted July 13, 2012 Atlanta, GA
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John Papapolymerou has been appointed editor-in-chief of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. A professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Papapolymerou is the first Georgia Tech faculty member to hold this post and will begin his three-year term in the position this fall.
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters is a monthly journal that provides fast publication of original and significant contributions to all aspects of microwave/millimeter-wave technology. Emphasis is placed on devices, components, circuits, guided-wave structures, systems, and applications covering the frequency spectrum, including submillimeter-waves and infrared technologies.
Dr. Papapolymerou has been on the ECE faculty since 2001. He also serves on the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee, which monitors the timeliness, appropriateness, and quality of all IEEE society- and council-sponsored periodicals.
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
