Cynthia Furse
{{Short description|American electrical engineer}}
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Cynthia M. Furse (née Mahoney,{{r|orcid}} born 1963) is an American electrical engineer, the director of graduate studies and a distinguished professor in the University of Utah Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.{{r|ece-faculty}} Her research involves the use of finite-difference time-domain methods in computational simulations of the absorption and reflection of radio waves by other materials,{{r|noghanian}} with applications including the use of spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry to diagnose aircraft wiring systems, the design of antennae in medical implants, and the effects of cell phone emissions on the human body.{{r|pcosw}} Her publications also include works on engineering education.
Education and career
Furse was born in 1963{{r|loc}} in Hartford, Maine.{{r|bio}} After her father, food scientist Arthur W. Mahoney,{{r|awm}} took a professorship at Utah State University in 1969,{{r|governor}} she grew up in Logan, Utah.{{r|bio}} After beginning her studies in mechanical engineering,{{r|noghanian}} she became a student of electrical engineering at the University of Utah, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1985, a master's degree in 1988, and a Ph.D. in 1994.{{r|x}} Her master's work was mentored by Magdy Iskander; Om P. Gandhi became her doctoral supervisor.{{r|noghanian}}
Before returning to the University of Utah as a faculty member, she was a professor at Utah State University for five years, beginning in 1997.{{r|governor}}
After moving to the University of Utah in 2002,{{r|orcid}} she co-founded in 2003 and became chief scientist of Livewire Test Labs, a spinoff of the University of Utah that later became LiveWire Innovation.{{r|pcosw|livewire}} From 2009 to 2019, she served as Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah.{{r|pcosw|bio}}
Books
Furse is the author or coauthor of technical books including:
- Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics (with Douglas A. Christensen and Carl H. Durney; 2nd ed., 2009, and 3rd ed., 2018)
- Circuit Analysis and Design (with Fawwaz Tayssir Ulaby and Michel M. Maharbiz, 2018)
She is also a coauthor of a local history book:
- History Of Emigration Canyon: Gateway to Salt Lake Valley (with Jeffrey Carlstrom, 2003; 2nd ed., 2019){{r|hec}}
Recognition
Furse was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008, "for leadership in electromagnetics education".{{r|ieee-fellow}} She was named a Fellow the National Academy of Inventors in 2014.{{r|nai}} She was named a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society in 2023, "for exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions in applied computational electromagnetics".{{r|aces-fellow}}
She was named Professor of the Year in the Utah State University College of Engineering in 2000.{{r|rigas}} At the University of Utah, she was named the 2008 College of Engineering Distinguished Professor.{{r|rigas}} She was a 2016 recipient of the Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology.{{r|governor}}
She was the 2009 recipient of the Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society,{{r|rigas}} and the 2020 recipient of the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, given to her "for motivating, challenging, educating, and inspiring the next generation of EM engineers through innovative teaching, hands-on experiences, current research, and lively participation".{{r|tai}}
References
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| last = Smith | first = Linda H.
| date = July 2004
| doi = 10.2307/45062877
| issue = 3
| journal = Utah Historical Quarterly
| pages = 280–282
| title = The History of Emigration Canyon Gateway to Salt Lake Valley
| type = book review
| volume = 72| jstor = 45062877
}}
| last = Balanis | first = Constantine A.
| date = August 2009
| doi = 10.1109/map.2009.5338719
| issue = 4
| journal = IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
| page = 170
| title = Cynthia Furse to Receive the Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas Award [Report of Awards and Fellow Committee]
| volume = 51| bibcode = 2009IAPM...51d.170B
}}
| date = December 2020
| doi = 10.1109/tap.2020.3039071
| issue = 12
| journal = IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
| page = 7743
| title = 2020 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award
| volume = 68| bibcode = 2020ITAP...68.7743.
}}
}}
Further reading
- {{citation|url=https://history.utah.gov/dr-cynthia-furse-inventor-engineer/|title=Dr. Cynthia Furse: Inventor & Engineer|first=Carla|last=Bagley|publisher=Utah Historical Society|access-date=2024-07-06}}
- {{citation|url=https://aces-society.org/includes/downloadpaper.php?of=ACES_Journal_March_2023_Paper_1&nf=23-3-1|title=Interview with Professor Cynthia Furse |first=Sima|last=Noghanian|publisher=Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)|access-date=2024-11-06}}
External links
- {{Google Scholar id|5L3wRysAAAAJ}}
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