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Dr. Karl Stephan

  • Professor - Ingram School of Engineering
  • Chen, Yihong (Principal), Percent Contribution: %40, Droopad, Ravindranath (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %15, Stern, Harold P, Percent Contribution: %9, Stephan, Karl, Percent Contribution: %9, Tate, Jitendra S, Percent Contribution: %9, Geerts, Wilhelmus J, Percent Contribution: %9, Shi, Xijun, Percent Contribution: %9. Acquisition of Wide Frequency Band Characterization System for Electronic Devices, Antennas, and Intelligent Materials, DOD, Federal, $548700. (Submitted: August 16, 2021, Funded: August 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024). Grant.
  • Chen, Yihong (Principal), Stephan, Karl (Supporting). Conformal, Peel-and-Stick Ferrite Waveguide Embedded in Road Striping, USDOT SBIR Phase II through Nanohmics, Federal, $125000. (Submitted: June 14, 2020, Funded: September 23, 2020 - September 22, 2022). Grant.
  • Stephan, Karl D (Principal). Investigation of Novel Propagation Modes in Plasma-Enclosed Waveguide, Julian Schwinger Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $50000. (Submitted: April 1, 2016, Funded: December 11, 2017 - December 11, 2019). Grant.
  • Stephan, Karl. Research Enhancement Grant, Development and Test of a Steam Plasma Jet for Biodecontamination, $8000. (Submitted: October 2013, Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Stephan, Karl. Research Enhancement Grant, Production and Analysis of Hydrogen Spectra in Water-Bearing Plasmoids, $8000. (Funded: 2012). Grant.
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  • Bhalla, N., Bucklin, C. J., Devlin, M. B., Lopez, O. S., & Stephan, K. (n.d.). Engineering Fit: Developing a Tool to Identify Skills-Job Mismatch Among Engineering Students. https://doi.org/doi:10.25334/ZQY1-W289
  • Shmatov, M. L., & Stephan, K. D. (2019). Advances in Ball Lightning Research. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 195, 105115. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2019.105115
  • Stephan, K., Sonnenfeld, R., DeGroot, A., Cortez, N., & Toledo-Gonzalez, R. (2024). First measurements of Wind-Turbine Perturbations of Fair-Weather Electric Fields. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 261. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2024.106298
  • Stephan, K. (2024). Window damage as evidence for energy and power content of ball lightning. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 261. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2024.106300
  • Stephan, K. (2023). An economical smoke chamber and light-sheet microscope system for experiments in fluid dynamics and electrostatics. American Journal of Physics, 91(4), 316–323. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0122766.
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  1. Member

    College of Science and Engineering Research Enhancement Program Committee

  2. Other

    College Research Enhancement Grant Committee

  3. Chair

    Ingram School of Engineering Personnel Committee

  4. Other

    Ingram School of Engineering

  5. Member

    Board of Directors of the National Institute for Engineering Ethics

  6. Historian of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

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