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HAKAN PARTAL

hp4email@yahoo.com
Updated in 2008

Fields of Interests

Designing, simulating, testing, and troubleshooting RF/Microwave circuits. Industrial and academic experience particularly on microwave filters, couplers, power dividers, PIN diode switches, attenuators, RF detector circuits, antennas, frequency synthesizers. Expert on microwave and electromagnetic simulation tools and CAD programs. Strong Mathematics and computer skills. Research and Development ability.

 
Education

Ph.D.  in Electrical Engineering (Minor: Mathematics), Syracuse University, May 2005
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Circular loop antennas radiating in the presence of symmetrically placed scatterers.
- Coursework: Microwave circuits and filters, Computational Electromagnetics, Antennas, Amplifiers, Numerical Analysis, Boundary Element Techniques, and Boundary Value Problems

M.S.E.E., Syracuse University, NY, May 2001.
- MS Thesis: A uniform current loop radiating in the presence of rotationally symmetric objects.
- Coursework:  Microwave Engineering, CAD for Microwave Circuits, and Electromagnetics.

M.S.E.E., Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, January 1995.
- MS Thesis: An exact computational solution approach by integral representation with an application to radiation characteristics of aperture antennas.
- Coursework: Microstrip lines, Bioelectric Phenomena, Electromagnetics, and Mathematics.

B.S.E.E., Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, November 1991

Professional Experience
 
Microwave Inc, Syracuse, NY:  RF Design Engineer      Since January 2005

  • Designing and troubleshooting of a complex wireless base station signal distribution assembly for Motorola.
  • Supporting the production and custom project transfers to China.
  • Designing power combiners/dividers.
  • Designing a novel variable manual attenuator.
  • Designing a high power Pin diode switch for a WIMAX base station.
  • Designing and simulating surface mount microwave couplers.

 
Elcom Technologies, Rockleigh, NJ: RF Design Engineer                      May 2002 – May 2003
• Designed, simulated and tested microwave filters using various techniques, DC to 35 GHz. Introduced usage of miniaturized hairpin and pseudo-interdigital filters.
• Developed a filter library DC-25 GHz with about 130 designed filters.
• Helped testing and troubleshooting frequency synthesizers.
 
Herley Industries, Inc. Woburn, MA:  RF Design Engineer, Intern           May 2000 –April 2002
• Designed, simulated and tested microwave filters using various techniques, DC to 20 GHz.
• Designed, simulated and tested PIN switches and attenuators DC to 20 GHz.
• Worked on testing and troubleshooting an amplifier module.
• Had been an advisor for microwave and electromagnetic simulation tools.
 
Syracuse University, Syrcuse, NY:  Research Assistant,              February 1998- May 2000
• Published and presented scientific papers on antenna radiation and scattering problems, numerical methods, and microwave circuits. Detailed list of the papers can be found further below.

Skills
 
Software :  ADS, Momentum, Ansoft HFSS, Designer, Genesys, Matlab, Mathcad, Autocad, AWR.
Tools      :  Hands on experience with microwave test equipment and basic electronics instruments.
 
Awards
 
• Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2001 academic year.
• Graduate work at Syracuse University was partly supported by the Computer Applications and Software Engineering Center at Syracuse University, Fall 1998 – Summer 2000.
 
Journal and Conference Papers
 
1. Hakan P. Partal, Joseph R. Mautz, and Ercument Arvas, “Radiation From a Circular Loop in the Presence of Spherically Symmetric Conducting or   Dielectric Objects,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagat.,  vol .48, pp.1646-1652, October 2000.

2.  Hakan P. Partal, “The usage of dielectric resonator filters in microwave frequency synthesizers,” 8th Annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), Clearwater, FL, December 4-5, 2006

 

3. H. P. Partal, J. R. Mautz, E. Arvas, “Radiation from a large circular loop around a dielectric coated conducting sphere,” The 22th Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES 2006), pp. 102-107, Miami FL, March 12-16, 2006.

 

4. Hakan P. Partal, Joseph R. Mautz, and Ercument Arvas, “Field of a Large Circular Loop Antenna around a Conducting Sphere,” The 10th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, (ANTEM 2004/URSI), Ottawa, Canada, July 20th - 23rd, 2004.


5. Hakan P. Partal, Joseph R. Mautz, and Ercument Arvas, “Radiation from Loops Next to a Sphere in a Radome”, 2000 Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM 2000), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, July 30th - August 3rd, 2000

6. Hakan P. Partal, Joseph R. Mautz, and Ercument Arvas, “Radiation from Parallel Circular Loops Near Conducting Objects”, 2000 IEEE APS International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 11-15, 2000.

7. Hakan P. Partal and Ercument Arvas,  "Circular Loop Antenna near Symmetrically Placed Conducting and/or Dielectric Bodies",  XXVIth General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, Toronto, Canada, August 13-21, 1999.

8. Hakan P. Partal,  Ercument Arvas, and Joseph R. Mautz, "Radiation from a Circular Loop in the Presence of a Dielectric Sphere and/or a Radome", 1999 IEEE APS International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 11-16, 1999.

9. Mark W. Ingalls and Hakan Partal, "Resonant Lines for Device Measurement, 10MHz-5GHz", 19th Capacitor and Resistor Technology Symposium (CARTS 99), New Orleans, LA, March 15-18 1999.

10. Hakan P. Partal, Joseph R. Mautz, and Ercument Arvas, "Radiation from a Circular Loop near Symmetrically Placed Conducting Caps", URSI National Radio Science Meeting, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO,  January 4-8, 1999.

11. Hakan P. Partal, Joseph R. Mautz, Taner Sengor, and Ercument Arvas, "Field of a Circular Loop near a Symmetrical Spherical Cap", 1998 Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM'98), Ottawa, Canada,  August 9-12, 1998.

12. Taner Sengor and Hakan P. Partal, “Simulating the Radiation Characteristics of Circular Impedance Discs”, 1997 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA-97), Torino, Italy,  September 15-18, 1997.

13. Taner Sengor and Hakan P. Partal, “The Exact Computational Solution Approach by Integral Representation with an Application to Radiation Characteristics of Aperture Antennas”, 1996 IEEE International Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Baltimore, MD, July 21-26, 1996.