Susan Hagness

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Susan Hagness
Born
Susan Carol Hagness

Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
EducationNorthwestern University
Spouse(s)Timothy Dean
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
ThesisFDTD Computational Electromagnetics Modeling of Microcavity Lasers and Resonant Optical Structures (1998)
Doctoral advisorAllen Taflove
Websiteuwcem.ece.wisc.edu

Susan Carol Hagness is an American electrical engineer and applied electromagnetics researcher. She is the Philip Dunham Reed Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Early life and education[]

Hagness was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana where she was encouraged by mathematics professor Herb Bailey to pursue a career in STEM. He persuaded Hagness to take computer programming during the summer and entered her in Rubik's Cube competitions.[1] Growing up, she attended high school in the Vigo County School Corporation district where she was a finalist for their Most Valuable Student contest.[2] Hagness completed her PhD at Northwestern University after being inspired by Allen Taflove, who later became her doctoral advisor.[1]

Career[]

As a graduate student, Hagness was asked to assist with Northwestern's new first-year course called "Engineering First," inspiring her to pursue a career in teaching. After graduating, Hagness chose to accept a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison). Upon joining the UW–Madison's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998, she was one of only two women in the department out of approximately 40 faculty.[3] As an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university, she began researching the use of microwave radar imaging for breast cancer detection.[4] In recognition of her academic research, Hagness earned a 2000 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineer[5] and was named one of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's magazine, Technology Review.[6] In 2003, she the recipient of the Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[7]

In 2009, Hagness was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for her "contributions to time-domain computational electromagnetics and microwave medical imaging."[8] She remained at UW–Madison where she was honored with the William R. Kellett Mid-Career Award for outstanding mid-career faculty members who are five to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position.[9] She later collaborated with Nader Behdad to seek less invasive therapies for cancer patients after prompting from Joshua Medow. Together, they discovered that high-frequency microwaves offer a comparable ablation area.[10] In recognition of her academic achievements, she received the Sven Berggren prize from the board of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 2015.[11]

As the Philip Dunham Reed Professor at UW-Madison, Hagness and John H. Booske were asked by Ben Tilberg of Ocean Spray Cranberries to develop a more efficient, technologically advanced method to count cranberries. The device they created automated the counting process without having to pick any berries.[12] In the same year, she was also selected by the IEEE to be one of their distinguished lecturers.[13] She was later named treasurer of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association for the 2019–2020 academic year.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Sheppard, Laurel M. (October 2002). "Not Your Mother's Mammography" (PDF). ece.northwestern.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Jerse, Dorothy (March 22, 2014). "LOOKING BACK: 2004: Engineers designing extension of Locust Street from 25th to Brown Dorothy Jerse". Tribune-Star. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Cushman, Will (October 12, 2018). "Hagness' mentorship lifts women colleagues". engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  4. ^ Mattmiller, Brian (September 22, 1999). "Microwave imaging may yield better breast-cancer detection". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  5. ^ Mattmiller, Brian (October 24, 2000). "Two receive presidential honors for research". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  6. ^ "Local Professor honored Susan Hagness". Wisconsin State Journal. May 28, 2002. Retrieved November 30, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Wolff, Barbara (April 3, 2003). "UW-Madison honors eight faculty for outstanding teaching". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  8. ^ Maria a (2009). "AP-S Members of 2009 Class of IEEE Fellows". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 50 (6): 173–174. doi:10.1109/MAP.2008.4768959. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  9. ^ Sakai, Jill (March 29, 2011). "Eleven faculty members named Kellett award winners". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  10. ^ Gordon, Scott (October 15, 2014). "Novel antenna breaks down barrier in tumor ablation technology". engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  11. ^ Brodt, Lexy (November 13, 2015). "ECE professor accepts Sven Berggren prize in Lund, Sweden". preview.engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  12. ^ Miller, Renee (January 16, 2018). "Radar adds technological twist to age-old cranberry counting process". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  13. ^ Million-Weaver, Sam (December 20, 2018). "Susan Hagness and Bulent Sarlioglu appointed as distinguished lecturers". engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  14. ^ Million-Weaver, Sam (June 11, 2019). "Hagness named treasurer of ECE department heads association". engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.

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