Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 1990.

• M.S.E.E., University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 1986.

• B.S.E.E., University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 1984.

Professional Associations

• Senior Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)

• Member, WEPAN (Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network)

• Counselor, SIUC Student Branch of the IEEE

• Advisor, SIUC Student Chapter of Engineering Honor Society Tau Beta Pi

Research Interests

• Numerical electromagnetics

• Microstrip Antennas

• Microwaves in Anisotropic Media

Patents

1. Inventors: Peter J. Rainville and Frances J. Harackiewicz, Patch Antenna with Magnetically Controllable Radiation Polarization, U.S. Patent No. 5,502,451, issued: March 26, 1996.

Refereed Publications

1. F. J. Harackiewicz and D. M. Pozar, "Optimum shape synthesis of maximum gain omnidirectional antennas," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-34, no. 2, pp. 254-258, Feb. 1986.

2. H. How, P. J. Rainville, F. J. Harackiewicz, and C. Vittoria, "Radiation frequencies of ferrite patch antennas," Electronics Letters, vol. 28, no. 15, pp. 1405-1406, July 1992.

3. P. J. Rainville and F. J. Harackiewicz, "Magnetic tuning of a microstrip patch antenna fabricated on a ferrite film," IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, vol. 2, no. 12, pp. 483-485, Dec. 1992.

4. H. How, P. J. Rainville, F. J. Harackiewicz, and C. Vittoria, "Radiation frequencies for magnetically nonsaturated ferrite patch antennas," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 73, no. 10, pt. 2B, p. 6469, May 1993.

5. B. Lee and F. J. Harackiewicz, "RCS of a microstrip antenna on an in-plane biased ferrite substrate," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 208-211, Feb. 1996.

6. E. Rozan, C. Collado, A. Garcia, J. M. O'Callaghan, R. Pous, L. Fabrega, J. Rius, R. Rubi, J. Fontcuberta, and F. J. Harackiewicz, "Design and fabrication of coplanar YBCO structures on lithium niobate substrates," IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 9, no. 2, pt. 3, pp. 2866-2869, June 1999.

7. B. Lee, F. J. Harackiewicz, J. Lee, J. Kim, and N. Kim, "Measured equation of invariance based on wavelet transform technique," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 47-49, April 2002.

8. B. Lee and F. J. Harackiewicz, "Miniature microstrip antenna with a partially filled high-permittivity substrate," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 1160-1162, Aug. 2002.

9. B. Lee and F. J. Harackiewicz, Gi-Cho Kang, Uiseok Hong, Jong-Chui Lee, and Bok-Ki Kim, "Enhanced Impedance Bandwidth of Microstrip Antennas Using Coupling," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 79-81, Oct. 20. 2003.