Dr.  William H. Cantrell

Office:
Tel. No: 805-355-6232
Email: whc@uta.edu
Web: http://omega.uta.edu/~cantrell/

Adjunct Faculty

Ph.D. The University of Texas at Arlington, 2002
M.S.  Texas A&M University, 1981
B.S.   Texas A&M University, 1978

 
Areas of Expertise
Analog, RF & microwave circuit design, radar & radio communications hardware, systems design, electromagnetic compatibility.

Background
W. H. Cantrell received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He was chosen by the faculty as the 1978 Bolton Scholar, an award given to the outstanding electrical engineering student. In 2000 he was designated a University Scholar by the UTA President's Convocation for Academic Excellence. In 2002 Dr. Cantrell earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington.

Dr. Cantrell presently works at the ARPA Long-range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar (ALTAIR) installation, located on Roi-Namur Island at the Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. He and wife Melinda live on the beautiful tropical island of Kwajalein in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In prior work, Dr. Cantrell was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at the Motorola R&D Center in Fort Worth, Texas. He designed two-way radios, cellular base stations and WiMAX communications products from 1981 to 2006.

Dr. Cantrell is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has published several technical journal and conference papers. He has given invited lectures and served as the 2006 AdCom Secretary for the Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S). He also served on the IMS2004 Technical Program and Steering Committees. Dr. Cantrell is currently a member of Technical Subcommittee MTT-17: HF, VHF & UHF Techniques. His research interests include analog & RF circuit design, high-power radar transmitters, low-frequency communications and Galilean-based electrodynamics. He has three patents.