Ronald J. Marhefka

Ronald J. Marhefka (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S.E.E. degree from Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA, in 1969, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 1971 and 1976, respectively. From 1969 to 2014, he was with the Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, as a Senior Research Scientist and an Adjunct Professor, where he retired in 2009 and worked part time until 2014. He is currently a consultant for various private and government organizations. He also works part time with Vector Electromagnetics, Vector-Electromagnetics, Beavercreek, OH, USA. He is the author of two user-oriented computer codes, the NEC—Basic Scattering Code and one dealing with radar cross section. The codes are being used in over 300 government, industrial, and university laboratories in the USA and 15 countries. He is the coauthor with John Kraus on the textbook Antennas, Ed. 3 (McGraw-Hill, 2002), 2 book chapters, 30 articles, and 100 conference papers. His research interests are in the areas of developing and applying high-frequency asymptotic solutions, such as the uniform geometrical theory of diffraction, hybrid solutions, other scattering techniques, wideband antennas, and frequency-selective surface applications. He has applied these methods to numerous practical antenna and scattering problems, including airborne, spacecraft and shipboard antenna analysis, and radar cross section prediction. Dr. Marhefka became a fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society in 2016, where he was an Associate Editor of their journal in the past. He has been elected to Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Commission B of URSI. He was a coauthor of papers that won the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Best Application Paper Award in 1976 and the R. W. P. King Paper Award in 1976. He received The Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Award in 1992, the Annual Research Accomplishment Award in 1999, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. He was a recipient of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society’s 1993 Technical Achievement Award. He was elected as a member of ADCOM in 1996, the Vice President in 1997, and the President in 1998. He was the Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the 2003 IEEE APS/URSI Symposium. He has chaired the AP-S Publications Committee from 1996 to 2003, 2009 to 2010, and from 2014 to 2016. He has served as an Officer of the local IEEE Antenna and Propagation and Microwave Theory and Techniques Societies from 1977 to 1980. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 1988 to 1992. He was the Editor-in-Chief from 1992 to 1995. He was the AP-S Awards Coordinator and a member of the AP-S Fellows Evaluation Committee in 2018.