Steven Weisbrod, Ph.D.
Education:
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Ionosphere Research Lab, 1964.
- M.S., Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1959.
- B.S., Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1949.
Work Experience:
1996 - Present: Consultant on electromagnetic wave interactions with material media. Dr. Weisbrod authored several widely used computer programs with extensive graphic and tabular capabilities. VBROP, the user interactive program for the analysis and optimization of multilayered RAM, RAS and radomes. VBEPS for computing electric permittivity from network analyzer transmission data, and VBMUE for computing electric permittivity and magnetic permeability from scatter coefficients measured by a network analyzer. Both VBEPS and VBMUE can analyze an embedded layer, handle normal and off normal geometries, compute complex ohms/square, complex propagation constants, and generate least square fits of electrical properties to Debye and/or Lorentzian oscillators.
1982 - 1996: Senior Scientist at McDonnell Douglas Technologies Incorporated (MDTI) in San Diego, CA. Dr. Weisbrod was involved in programs in the design of advanced systems for both industry and the Government with special emphasis on electromagnetic interaction with material media and material characterization.
1969 - 1982: Chief Scientist at Teledyne Micronetics, in San Diego, CA. Dr. Weisbrod conducted research and development in the areas of antennas, radio propagation, communications, dielectric measurements and radar properties of targets and clutter in terms of polarization, frequency dependence and orientation. He directed development of special instrumentation for the studies of low angle tracking, satellite communications, direction finding, multipath analysis, radio meteorology, tropospheric scatter, ionospheric propagation, and artificial dielectrics.
1955 - 1969: Director of Research for Smyth Research Associates in San Diego, CA. Dr. Weisbrod was engaged in system studies on the influence of ionospheric propagation effects on early warning radars; theoretical studies on phase errors in LF range navigation systems; experimental research on reflection of VHF transmission from meteor trails and ionization aligned with the Earth's atmosphere; and studies of the lower ionosphere by means of phase and amplitude perturbations produced by ionospheric wave interaction.
1949 - 1955: Research physicist with the U.S. Naval Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, CA. Dr. Weisbrod was engaged in research and development on HF diversity techniques for communication systems, ionospheric transmission, and VLF propagation. Dr. Weisbrod was awarded the Superior Accomplishments Award by the Navy Department in 1953.
Dr. Weisbrod is the author of numerous scientific and technical publications. |
