Don Creyts

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Gregory Kiesel

March 17, 2014, 10:26 am

≫ Next: Todd Lee

≪ Previous: Don Creyts

Full Name

Gregory Kiesel

Mr. Gregory Kiesel is an analog and microwave design engineer for GTRI. Mr. Kiesel has developed novel tools for the design of wideband balun, feed structures and broadband RF control systems. His work includes multi-decade solid state amplifiers and time delay units, the electronics design of the A3 reconfigurable antenna, and the tight integration of baluns and combiners into the antenna superstructure. Greg's current research is focused on integrating circuit simulation tools to improve the design of fragmented apertures; developing improved methods for building reconfigurable antennas (lower power, smaller, arbitrary structure); and improving the state of the art in electronics to support broadband fragmented aperture antennas.

First Name

Gregory

Last Name

Kiesel

Phone

404-407-7781

Email

Gregory.Kiesel@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

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Todd Lee

March 17, 2014, 10:27 am

≫ Next: David Reid

≪ Previous: Gregory Kiesel

Full Name

Todd Lee

Dr. R. Todd Lee received his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. Dr. Lee’s thesis developed a new technique for modeling periodic structures in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. After receiving his Ph.D., Todd joined ACL at GTRI. Dr. Lee has researched methods for porting the FDTD method to modern graphical processing units (GPUs), modeling periodic structures, and conformal gridding. Todd has designed antenna arrays for applications in the UHF, VHF, L, Ku, and Ka bands. Dr. Lee has also worked extensively in the field of beam former design for ultra-wideband arrays.

First Name

Todd

Last Name

Lee

Phone

404-407-7273

Email

Todd.Lee@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

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David Reid

March 17, 2014, 10:30 am

≫ Next: Mark Scott

≪ Previous: Todd Lee

Full Name

David Reid

Dr. David Reid is a Senior Research Engineer at the GTRI’s ACL where he conducts experimental and computational research on the electromagnetic properties of materials, structures, and antennas. He has designed an artificial material standard for free-space measurement systems that has been adopted throughout the material measurement community. His current areas of interest are the design and analysis of electromagnetic materials, low and high frequency dielectric/magnetic measurement techniques.

First Name

David

Last Name

Reid

Phone

404-407-8199

Email

david.reid@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

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Mark Scott

March 17, 2014, 10:33 am

≫ Next: Software-Defined Radio Development with GNU Radio: Theory and Application

≪ Previous: David Reid

Full Name

Mark Scott

Dr. Mark Scott has a PhD in physics from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Dr. Scott has researched microwave dynamics in magnetic materials at the Magnetics Laboratory at Colorado State University. He performed research and engineering for Mission Research Corporation/Alliant Techsytems in Dayton, Ohio in the area of material and radome manufacture and electromagnetic characterization. Dr. Scott currently works at GTRI where he leads numerous efforts in electromagnetics materials and characterization.

First Name

Mark

Last Name

Scott

Email

mark.scott@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

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Software-Defined Radio Development with GNU Radio: Theory and Application

May 1, 2014, 4:31 pm

≫ Next: Bob Baxley

≪ Previous: Mark Scott

CN Course ID

1329

Program ID

DEF 4013P

Program Type

SHORT_COURSE

CNID

1329

Subjects

Airborne & Space

Electrical Engineering

An intense four-day tutorial on implementing software-define radio (SDR) systems. Students will be exposed to both communications theory and the programming skills required to develop GNU Radio SDR systems.

Course Description

This course will comprehensively cover developing software defined radio (SDR) communications systems using the GNU Radio signal processing and development environment. The course is structured so that concepts and theory can be instantly translated to practice with hands-on implementations using the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) SDR platform. All hardware will be provided as part of the course. Students will learn all of the necessary building blocks to become proficient SDR developers, including signal processing and communication theory, as well as Python and C++ concepts required for GNU Radio development. The course culminates in a class-wide radio competition.

Who Should Attend

Engineers, scientists, and managers from industry, educational institutions, and government agencies who are interested in gaining hands-on communications systems knowledge

How You Will Benefit

Implement fully functional software-defined radio systems
Apply physical layer radio theory to practical systems including modulation, forward error correction, channel estimation and equalization
Apply medium access control theory to practical systems including frequency and time division duplexing and multiplexing
Apply multiple antenna (MIMO) radio theory to practical systems
Understand hardware tradeoffs in real radio systems
Analyze communications system performance
Install and configure GNU Radio to interface with USRP radios
Implement GNU Radio flow graphs
Create GNU Radio out-of-tree modules
Use GNU Radio for both simulation tasks and real-time systems development

What is Covered

SDR Introduction
GNU Radio Introduction
GNU Radio setup
USRP setup
Signal Processing Theory
Communications Theory -Modulations
Communications Theory –Equalization and error control
Communications Theory –Medium Access
Communications Theory – MIMO Communications
Numerous hands-on examples
In-class competition

Course Materials

Required

Laptop computer

Provided

USRP hardware

Course Administrator

Bob Baxley

Instructors

Course Assigned ID

DEF 4013P

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Bob Baxley

May 1, 2014, 4:41 pm

≫ Next: Andrew Henshaw

≪ Previous: Software-Defined Radio Development with GNU Radio: Theory and Application

Full Name

Bob Baxley

Dr. Bob Baxley is a Senior Research Engineer and Director of the GTRI Software Defined Radio Lab. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Georgia Tech. His graduate work led to several recognitions including the Georgia Tech-wide Sigma Xi award for best M.S. thesis, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the SAIC Best Paper Award, and the Center for Signal and Image Processing Research Award. Dr. Baxley’s research interest is primarily communications theory in areas including signal processing for communications systems, channel estimation, signal detection, interference mitigation, cognitive radio, and adversarial communications. In 2012, he contributed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology report to President Obama entitled Realizing the Full Potential of Government-Held Spectrum to Spur Economic Growth, which advocated the use of cognitive radio technology to ease spectrum congestion. In 2014, he led the GTRI finalist team in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge winning the second-place prize. Dr. Baxley is a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Associate Editor of Digital Signal Processing, and an adjunct faculty member of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

First Name

Bob

Last Name

Baxley

Phone

404-407-7525

Email

baxley@gatech.edu

Programs

Subjects

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Andrew Henshaw

May 1, 2014, 4:45 pm

≫ Next: Sean Nowlan

≪ Previous: Bob Baxley

Full Name

Andrew Henshaw

Mr. Andrew Henshaw is a Senior Research Engineer with the Electronic Systems Laboratory at GTRI. He has received a Bachelor’s and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. Mr. Henshaw has more than twenty-five years of experience in high-performance computing, parallel processing, and embedded systems. As Vice-President of APower Solutions, he specialized in the development of data mining analytics. At GTRI, Mr. Henshaw has developed hardware and software platforms for the test and verification of electronic warfare and tactical data link systems. For many years, he has been a frequent lecturer on the Python language and was a contributor to the very first edition of The Python Cookbook. Mr. Henshaw is a member of the GTRI finalist team in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge.

First Name

Andrew

Last Name

Henshaw

Phone

404-407-8239

Email

andy.henshaw@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

Subjects

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Sean Nowlan

May 1, 2014, 4:46 pm

≫ Next: Ethan Trewhitt

≪ Previous: Andrew Henshaw

Full Name

Sean Nowlan

Mr. Sean Nowlan is a Research Engineer with the Information and Communications Laboratory at GTRI. Mr. Nowlan graduated from Lafayette College with Honors with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007 and earned his M.S.E.C.E. at Georgia Tech in 2011. His research includes adaptive communications systems design, signal processing for communications, and distributed software-defined radio (SDR) applications and command and control (C2). Mr. Nowlan has experience and interests in a wide range of engineering disciplines including SDR, computer and network security, wireless communications and networking, digital signal processing, software and hardware development, and embedded systems design. Mr. Nowlan started the SDR Community of Interest (SDR-COI) at GTRI and is a member of the GTRI DARPA Spectrum Challenge finalist team. Mr. Nowlan is an active contributor to GNU Radio, an open-source software radio and signal processing suite.

First Name

Sean

Last Name

Nowlan

Email

sean.nowlan@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

Subjects

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Ethan Trewhitt

May 1, 2014, 4:47 pm

≫ Next: Leading Systems Engineering Teams

≪ Previous: Sean Nowlan

Full Name

Ethan Trewhitt

Mr. Ethan Trewhitt is a Research Engineer with the Information and Communications Laboratory at GTRI. Mr. Trewhitt received his B.S. Electrical Engineering in 2005 and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007, both from Georgia Tech. His specializations include network security, applied cryptography, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on cognitive reasoning applied to a variety of domains. Mr. Trewhitt co-led the GTRI team “I Spy a Red Balloon”, which placed second in the 2009 DARPA Network Challenge, and was also a member of the GTRI DARPA Spectrum Challenge team.

First Name

Ethan

Last Name

Trewhitt

Email

ethan.trewhitt@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

Subjects

Leading Systems Engineering Teams

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Leading Systems Engineering Teams

May 21, 2014, 11:19 am

≫ Next: Terrye Schaetzel

≪ Previous: Ethan Trewhitt

Section ID

6988

Course ID

CEUs

1.95

Cost

1495

Date Start

Tue, 2014-08-26

Date End

Thu, 2014-08-28

Section Location

Atlanta (Georgia Tech Global Learning Center)

CN Section Type

SHORT_COURSE

CN Section Status

OPEN

More Info Comment

Meeting Times
On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
Thursday, August 28, 2014 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)

CRN

14754/220415204

CatalystNet ID

841

Alternate Rate

$748 -- Georgia Tech Employee Rate
Group discount available for companies that register 3 or more people at the same time. Download our group registration form or call 855-812-5309 to register your group.

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Terrye Schaetzel

May 30, 2014, 7:18 am

≫ Next: Las Vegas (Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel)

≪ Previous: Leading Systems Engineering Teams

Full Name

Terrye N. Schaetzel

First Name

Terrye

Last Name

Schaetzel

Phone

(404) 407-8499

Email

terrye.schaetzel@gtri.gatech.edu

Title

Senior Research Engineer

Unit

GTRI

Programs

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Las Vegas (Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel)

May 30, 2014, 10:25 am

≫ Next: Advanced Photonic Systems and Applications for Electronic Warfare

≪ Previous: Terrye Schaetzel

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Advanced Photonic Systems and Applications for Electronic Warfare

July 16, 2014, 1:28 pm

≫ Next: Basic Radar Signal Processing

≪ Previous: Las Vegas (Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel)

CN Course ID

1344

Program ID

DEF 3539P

Program Type

SHORT_COURSE

CNID

1344

Subjects

Electrical Engineering

Radar

Systems Engineering

Explore RF photonics technologies, including their applications to Electronic Attack (EA), Electronic Protect (EP), and Electronic Support (ES). Review advances in photonic device integration, telecom components and system drivers, and photonic building blocks for EW architectures.

Course Description

This course utilizes the concepts and applications from the DEF 3538P - Fundamentals of RF Photonics in EW Applications course and expands into concepts that exploit linearities and analog signal processing within the optical domain providing significant EW system improvements over traditional all-electronic solutions.

Who Should Attend

Technical personnel involved in data communications, radar, or electronic warfare system design/operations, as well as engineers and managers in the specification, procurement, design and development, testing, and operation of high-speed or high-bandwidth electronics systems

How You Will Benefit

Understand state-of-the-art photonics technology and future trends
Understand the theory of operation of photonic devices and systems
Know the performance and design trade-offs amongst RF, Digital, and Photonic solutions in EW architectures
Learn how to apply photonics in radar and electronic warfare EA/EP/ES applications

What is Covered

Fundamentals review
Concepts of operation and future of EW
Electronic support
Electronic attack
Electroic protect
GT Photonic Lab tour and photonic system demonstration

Course Materials

Participants will each receive a course booklet (includes all slides, GT personnel/lab contact information, and cd of all material)

Course Prerequisites

Recommended

Course Administrator

Christopher Ward

Course Assigned ID

DEF 3539P

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Basic Radar Signal Processing

July 24, 2014, 3:21 pm

≫ Next: Alyssa Daya

≪ Previous: Advanced Photonic Systems and Applications for Electronic Warfare

CN Course ID

1347

Program ID

DEF 3540P

Program Type

SHORT_COURSE

CNID

1347

Subjects

Radar

Obtain a thorough overview of the major signal processing methods used in modern radars to suppress interference and improve detection, resolution, measurement accuracy, and tracking quality.

Course Description

This course is a thorough overview of the major signal processing methods used in modern radars to suppress interference and improve detection, resolution, measurement accuracy, and tracking quality. It provides a strong foundation for further study in more in-depth courses on radar signal processing and special topics such as imaging and adaptive processing.

Who Should Attend

Managers
Technicians
Engineers
Scientists

How You Will Benefit

Understand the characteristics of target, clutter, and noise signals
Become familiar with the concept of threshold detection and adaptive threshold selection
Understand the tradeoffs between simple and pulse compression waveforms
Learn how moving target indication and pulse Doppler processing enable target detection in clutter
Understand limitations on range, Doppler, and angle measurement accuracy
Introduce the concepts and basic implementations of track filtering, adaptive beamforming, and radar imaging

What is Covered

Radar signal modeling and acquisition
Threshold detection: Finding targets in interference
Waveforms and pulse compression
Separating targets from clutter: MTI and pulse doppler
Locating the targets: Introduction to measurement accuracy and tracking
Introduction to advanced radar signal processing

Course Prerequisites

Recommended

DEF 3521P - Signal Processing Refresher (or equivalent)
DEF 3501P - Basic Radar Concepts or DEF 3502P - Principles of Modern Radar

Course Administrator

Mark A. Richards

Instructors

Byron Keel

Mark A. Richards

Course Assigned ID

DEF 3540P

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Alyssa Daya

August 7, 2014, 4:15 pm

≫ Next: James Skala

≪ Previous: Basic Radar Signal Processing

Full Name

Alyssa Daya

Alyssa Daya, Senior Research Scientist in the Electromagnetic and Antennas Division (EAD of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. She has over 13 years of experience and expertise in the modeling, simulation, and analysis of antennas, including spiral and slot antennas, reflectors, Yagi-Uda, dipoles, LPDA, and a diverse variety of arrays. Ms. Daya has published over 40 technical reports and IEEE journal and symposia papers. She earned her B.S. degree in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her MS degree in Physics from the Univeristy of Central Florida.

First Name

Alyssa

Last Name

Daya

Phone

404-407-7558

Email

alyssa.daya@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs

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James Skala

August 7, 2014, 4:19 pm

≫ Next: Infrared Technology and Applications - Targeting Systems - Restricted Access (ITA-TS-RA)

≪ Previous: Alyssa Daya

Full Name

James Skala

James Skala, Research Scientist in the Electromagnetic and Antennas Division (EAD) of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He has more than 12 years of experience in electromagnetics, with a primary focus in electromagnetic analysis and modeling. Mr. Skala has extensively used a wide variety of computational methods throughout his career: FEM (AC and DC), MoM (3D and 2D), FDTD/FIT, transmission line modeling, and equivalent circuit models. His electromagnetic applications experience includes antenna analysis, antenna design, antenna measurement, lightning, and electromagnetic compatibility. Mr. Skala's work in GTRI includes radar and electronic warfare applications, and prior to joining GTRI he worked in the aerospace industry. He has an MS Physics from the University of Washington-Seattle and BSEE from the University of Nebraska.

First Name

James

Last Name

Skala

Email

james.skala@gtri.gatech.edu

Programs