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March marks Women's History Month, and March 8th is celebrated as International Women's Day. In this Special Article, Sima Noghanian interviews Mahta Mogaddam, renowned scholar in applied and computational electromagnetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The month of March is Women’s History Month. We all have heard and know that only a small percentage of electrical engineers are female. This percentage is even smaller for those that are experts in the field of applied computational electromagnetics. In this article, we are focusing on Dr. Ozlem Kilic, one of the well-known and established intellectuals in the field of computational electromagnetics. Dr. Kilic not only has been a role model for young students as an excellent researcher, a technical leader, and a prolific writer in this field, but also she has extensive experience in teaching and has taken many academic administration roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The robustness of the microwave tomography method based on frequency dependent finite difference time domain numerical method and hybrid genetic algorithm for breast cancer imaging for different levels of noise are investigated in this paper. These results indicate the algorithm performs well in the case of data contaminated by various levels of additive white Gaussian noise (up to 15 % of signal strength). Noise levels above this value inhibit the efficacy of the method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The performance of wearable and flexible antennas can be greatly affected by bending and crumpling. While these effects have been studied in the literature, the accuracy of simulation in these conditions should be considered. In this paper, the effects of accurate modeling of the excitation, and the supporting structures are investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the design of a miniature wideband antenna for biotelemetry applications is presented. We propose a biocompatible antenna to be printed on the outer surface of a capsule. The size of the antenna in planar form is 2.52 mm³. The antenna shows a wide impedance bandwidth of 7.31 GHz (0.78 GHz – 8 GHz, for -10dB reflection coefficient) when implanted inside a simple three layer body model. The antenna gain values at 915 MHz and 2.45 GHz are -25.23 dBi and -27.51 dBi, respectively. The antenna resonance frequency is shown to be robust when implanted in a realistic anatomical body model. The performance of the communication link between the implanted antenna and an external half-wavelength dipole at 915 MHz and 2.45 GHz is also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]