Chris Trampel

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Current Position

Research assistant

Iowa State University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

PhD., Iowa State University, Anticipated 2007, Electrical Engineering
M.S., Michigan State University, 2004, Electrical Engineering
B.S., Iowa State University, 2002, Electrical Engineering

Conference papers

A Novel Algorithm for Analysis of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Metallic Thin Films, C. Trampel, G. Kobidze, S. Balasubramaniam, D. Nyquist, 2004 Antennas and Propagation Symposium (Invited Paper)

Work experience

Research assistant, Sep. 2002 – Jun. 2004

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
• Computational electromagnetics research involving the scattering of electromagnetic waves from quasi-planar surfaces.
• Applications of N-body algorithms such as the Method of Moments (MOM) and Fast Multipole Methods (FMM).
• Solution implemented in Fortran 90.

Research Experience for Undergraduates

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Undergraduate researcher. May - August 2001
• Wrote a MATLAB program that simulates the reflection and transmission of light waves in a Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR).
• Fabricated several Distributed Bragg Reflectors.
• Completed a microelectronics fabrication course.

Research assistant

Center for Non-destructive Evaluation
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
May – August 2000
• Wrote a C program that creates a voxelized octree representation from image files.
• Wrote a C program that outputs a CAD model which simulates a defect in metal.
• Helped to create CAD models for a biomedical research project.

Honors

National Merit Scholar
Phi Kappa Phi
H.O. Price Scholarship
Marston Club Scholarship
Highest 2% GPA, College of Engineering, Spring 2000
Highest 2% GPA, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Spring 1999