Tatsuo Itoh

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|name = Tatsuo Itoh

|image = Honoris causa Itoh a2015.jpg

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|birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

|death_date = {{death date|2021|3|4|1940|5|5|df=y}}

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|citizenship = Japan, United States

|nationality = Japanese, American

|field = Electrical engineering

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|known_for = Microwave and millimeter-wave circuits

|prizes = {{plainlist|

Nikola Tesla Award (2001)
IEEE Third Millennium Medal

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| thesis_title = Sub-Optical Resonators With Grating Mirrors

| thesis_url = https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/59899

| thesis_year = 1969

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Eikichi Yamashita
Raj Mittra

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Tatsuo Itoh (5 May 1940 — 4 March 2021) was an electrical engineer who was professor and holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Microwave and Millimeter Wave Electronics in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught and conducted research on microwave and millimeter wave electronics, guided wave structures, low power wireless electronics, and integrated passive components and antennas.

Itoh was born on 5 May 1940 in Tokyo. He received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Yokohama National University in 1964 and 1966, respectively. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1969.{{cite journal |last1=Siegel |first1=Peter H. |last2=Niehenke |first2=Ed |last3=Hausner |first3=Jerry |title=In Memoriam: Tatsuo Itoh |journal=IEEE Microwave Magazine |date=2022 |volume=22 |issue=6 |pages=84–86, 106 |doi=10.1109/MMM.2021.3068650|s2cid=235540726 |doi-access=free }}

Itoh served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (1983–1985), and of the IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters (1991–1994). He served as President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 1990. He has received a number of awards, including the 1998 Shida Award from the Japanese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and the 1998 Japan Microwave Prize.

Itoh died on 4 March 2021.{{cite news |title=In Memoriam |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9423722 |access-date=2 July 2023 |work=IEEE Microwave Magazine |issue=June 2021 |date=2 July 2023 |pages=84–86 |doi=10.1109/MMM.2021.3068650}}

Awards and honors

Japan Microwave Prize (1998)
Shida Rinzaburo Award from the Japan Ministry of Post & Telecommunications (1998)
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1999)
IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)
IEEE Distinguished Microwave Educator Award (2000)
Nikola Tesla Award (2001)
Member of National Academy of Engineering (2003){{cite web|url=https://www.nae.edu/28294/Dr-Tatsuo-Itoh|title=Tatsuo Itoh|publisher=National Academy of Engineering|accessdate=2 January 2020}}
IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (2004–06)
Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2014){{cite news|title=Professor Itoh elected to National Academy of Inventors|url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/bulletin/professor-itoh-elected-to-national-academy-of-inventors|date=14 April 2014|accessdate=2 January 2020}}
IEEE Electromagnetics Award (2018)

Books

T. Itoh, editor, Planar Transmission Line Structures IEEE Press, NY,[http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Planar_Transmission_Line_Structures-ISBN_9780879422325.html?isrc=b-search Planar Transmission Line Structures] {{ISBN|9780879422325}} 1987.
T. Itoh, editor, Numerical Techniques for Microwave and Millimeter-wave Passive Structures Wiley, NY,{{cite book|publisher=Wiley|pages=720|date=May 1989|editor=Tatsuo Itoh|title=Numerical Techniques for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Passive Structures|isbn=978-0-471-62563-6}} 1989.
T. Itoh, G. Pelosi, and P. P. Silvester, editors, Finite Element Software for Microwave Engineering, Wiley, NY,{{cite book|author=Tatsuo Itoh, Giuseppe Pelosi and Peter P. Silvester|title=Finite Element Software for Microwave Engineering|pages=504|date=August 1996|publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-12636-2}} 1996.
T. Itoh and B. Houshmand, Time-Domain Methods for Microwave Structures: Analysis and Design, Wiley NY, 1998{{cite book|date=February 1998|pages=538|isbn=978-0-7803-1109-1|editor=Itoh, Tatsuo|editor2=Houshmand, Benjamin|title=Time-Domain Methods for Microwave Structures: Analysis and Design|publisher=Wiley-IEEE Press}} 1998
T. Itoh, G. Haddad, and J. Harvey, editors, RF Technologies for Low Power Wireless Communications Wiley Inter-Science,{{cite book|date=September 2001|pages=480|editor1=Itoh, Tatsuo|editor2=Haddad, George|editor3=Harvey, James|title=RF Technologies for Low-Power Wireless Communications|publisher=Wiley/IEEE Press|isbn=978-0-471-38267-6}} 2001.
C. Caloz and T. Itoh, Electromagnetic Metamaterials, Wiley-IEEE Press,{{cite book|author=Christophe Caloz and Tatsuo Itoh|title=Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Theory and Microwave Applications|publisher=Wiley/IEEE|pages=376|date=August 2013|isbn=978-0-471-66985-2}} 2005.

Patent(s)

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=in%2Fitoh+and+in%2Ftatsuo+and+an%2Fregent%24&d=PTXT Link to USPTO search for patents having inventor names "itoh" and "tatsuo" and an assignee name including the string "regent"]

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20081209062647/http://www.mwlab.ee.ucla.edu/research.html UCLA Microwave Electronics Laboratory homepage]
[http://www.ee.ucla.edu/ UCLA Electrical Engineering Department homepage]
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