Faculty Record

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Name: José Colom Ustariz
Title: Associate Professor
Field of interest: Microwave Circuits and Systems, Computational Electromagnetics, Wireless Communication
Office: SA-610
Extension: 2448/5831
Email: Jose.Colom@ieee.org
Bio: Dr. José G. Colom is currently an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UPRM where he teaches courses in Microwave Engineering, Electromagnetics Theory, Microwave Circuit Design using CAD, and Circuit Analysis. He is currently the coordinator of the COOP program at the ECE Department which provides the students with opportunities to collaborate with the industry. He was the director of the Industrial Affiliates Program for two years and is currently member of the IAP board. Dr. Colom obtained his Ph.D. degree from Penn State University, Magna Cum Laude and a MSEE from University of Massachussetts at Amherst. In graduate school he was involved in the development of microwave sensors for remote sensing applications and development of microwave circuits. He was also trained in the use of microwave measurement equipment up to 110 GHz. He is currently co-director of the Radiation Laboratory, established with an NSF MRI grant where he was also the Co-PI. He has 12 conference and journal papers in the areas of education, microwave remote sensing, and tunable microwave circuits using ferroelectric materials. Dr. Colom has several projects (MS Students) in collaboration with UMass and Raytheon. He has developed graduate level courses in the Microwave Active Circuits and Microwave Systems area. He also is participating in the educational component of CenSSIS (NSF ERC) where he developed an introductory course and laboratory for freshmen students in the Electrical Engineering Department. He has work with electromagnetic simulations and modeling of MMIC passive structures and simulated several tunable microwave components using ferroelectric materials. He is also involved in the establishment of a proposed radar network to improve weather forecasting. His current research interests are microwave systems for remote sensing application, microwave circuits, and numerical techniques for Electromagnetics. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques society.