Jay Weitzen

Expertise

Signal Processing, Wireless Communication, Position, Timing and Navigation Systems

Research Interests

Meteor Scatter Communication, Wireless Communication, Channel Measurements, Signal processing, Software Defined Radio, Position, Navigation and Timing Systems

Education

• Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983
• MS: Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
• BS: Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1978

Biosketch

Professor Jay Weitzen is in his 40th year at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he is currently professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He received the Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In his 40 years at UML, he has mentored a generation of wireless communication and RF/Microwave engineers using his applied, hands-on approach to explaining complex concepts. He recently completed a sabbatical semester at Analog Devices, where he was embedded on a team that helped develop an evaluation board for a 256-element Ka-band phase array chipset. He helped the university pioneer the use of personal learning devices during the pandemic shutdown, allowing students to complete hands-on laboratory exercises at home.

As chair, he worked with Analog Devices, Raytheon and Skyworks to bring online a new RF and microwave instructional laboratory to provide students in many microwave and RF engineering courses with hands-on laboratory work to complement classroom theory.

Working with Dohn Bowden and Brooks Automation, ECE established the e-Make ECE makerspace as a place where students can study, work on electronics projects and hang out.

His research interests are in wireless communication and radio-based navigation systems, and software-defined radio signal processing. He currently teaches graduate courses in communication theory, information theory and wireless communication. He has published over 110 papers in the open literature, holds two patents and is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and a former associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. When not working, he is an avid international folk dancer, amateur radio operator and bicyclist.

Selected Awards and Honors

IEEE Life Senior Member
Amateur Extra Class Licensee (AC1SN)