Jerry Crain
Professor Crain came to the University of Oklahoma in January 1994 under the Texas Instruments’ TI-Professor Program. He served as Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Enginering from 1998 thru July 2005 after serving a 30-month term as Interim Director. His research intrests are in phased array antennas andradar, Radomes and microwave antennas, and electro-magnetic systems. Professor Crain received his bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University in 1964, his master of science and doctor of philosophy, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Colorado in 1966 and 1970 respectively.
Crain has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels for eleven years. He introduced a graduate course in electromagnetic compatibility in 1995, and will introduce an antenna design course in the spring of 2006. His undergraduate classroom instruction includes Field Theory, Electronics Laboratory, Freshman Design, and Senior Project (an EE Capstone program). Senior Project (Capstone Design Lab) has been under his direction since fall 1994: these team-based projects are sponsored by and pereformed in partnership with Industry/Government Mentors. Dr Crain has played an instrumental role in the multi-agency development of the worlds first phased array radar to be fully dedicated to weather observation, now in operation at the National Weather Radar Testbed in Norman, OK.
Crain had twenty-eight years experience with Texas Instruments in engineering, marketing and management: with a strong technical basis array antennas, radomes and radar. At TI, he was responsible for definition and management of active electronically scanned array radar related internal research and development programs ranging in value from $3 million to $10 million annually from 1985 through 1993. Crain has been involved with such programs as the Solid State Phased Array, AESA Radar Research and development of annual IR&D reports.
Dr Crain is a Life member of the IEEE; is a member of American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), American Meteorological Society (AMS) and Frontiers in Engineering (FIE). He currently serves on the IEEE/AESS Radar Panel and is a Fellow of the Center for Meteorology and Mesoscale Storms (CIMMS).
Research Interests
- Solid State Phased Arrays
- Phased Array Radar (PAR) Research
- Radome Design and Analysis
