Donald R. Wilton

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Donald Robert Wilton
Born (1942-10-25) October 25, 1942 (age 82)
Alma mater University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Known for Rao–Wilton–Glisson basis function
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Thesis A new numerical approach to the calculation of electromagnetic scattering properties of two-dimensional bodies of arbitrary cross-section  (1970)
Doctoral advisor Raj Mittra
Website www.ece.uh.edu/faculty/wilton

Donald Robert Wilton (born October 25, 1942) is an American electrical engineer who is a professor emeritus at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Houston. He is best known for his contributions to the field of computational electromagnetics.

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Biography

Donald Robert Wilton was born on October 25, 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in 1964, 1966, and 1970, respectively. From 1965 to 1968, he was affiliated with Hughes Aircraft Company, where he worked on phased arrays. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Mississippi in 1970. He was a visiting professor at Syracuse University from 1978 to 1979. From 1983 until his retirement in 2012, he has been with University of Houston, where he is a professor of electrical engineering. [1] [2] Wilton is best known for his work in computational electromagnetics: he has introduced the namesake Rao–Wilton–Glisson (RWG) triangular surface basis functions, widely used in method of moments modeling of complex structures, with his doctoral students Sadasiva M. Rao and Allen W. Glisson. [3] [4]

Wilton is a member of Commission B of International Union of Radio Science and is a fellow of the IEEE. [1] In 2015, he received IEEE Electromagnetics Award "for fundamental contributions to integral equation methods in computational electromagnetics." [2] [5] In 2021, He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computational electromagnetics of highly complex structures." [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Capolino, Filippo; Jackson, David R.; Wilton, Donald R. (2005). "Fundamental Properties of the Field at the Interface Between Air and a Periodic Artificial Material Excited by a Line Source". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation . 53 (1): 91–99. doi:10.1109/TAP.2004.840518.
  2. 1 2 Grayson, Audrey (January 28, 2015). "ECE Professor Emeritus Wins IEEE Technical Field Award". uh.edu. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
  3. Rao, S.; Wilton, D.; Glisson, A. (May 1982). "Electromagnetic scattering by surfaces of arbitrary shape". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation . 30 (3): 409–418. doi:10.1109/TAP.1982.1142818.
  4. Davidson, David B. (2005). Computational Electromagnetics for RF and Microwave Engineering. Cambridge University Press. pp. 186–187. ISBN   978-0-521-83859-7.
  5. "IEEE Electromagnetics Award Recipients" (PDF). ieee.org. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
  6. "Professor Donald R. Wilton". nae.org. Retrieved September 14, 2024.