Penn State Harrisburg Faculty Details
Areas of Concentration and Expertise
- Fiber Optics
- Communications Systems Design
- Wireless Systems Design
- Electro-optic System Design
- Optical Sensors
Education
- Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996 - Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1989 - Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1986
Research Experience
- Electro-optic System Design
- Optical modulators & sensors
- RF & Microwave Systems
- Lightwave propagation in optical fibers
- Direct electro-optic modulation of lightwaves in glass and plastic fibers
Teaching Experience
2001 - present Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering , Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, PA
Major Subjects:
- Communications
- Optical Fiber Communications
- Electronic Devices and Circuits
- Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics
1998 - 2001 Electrical Engineering Technology Progran Chair, ITT Technical Institute, Greenfield, WI
Major Subjects:
- Electronic Communications
- Electronic Communications Laboratory
- Advanced Communications Systems
- Network Analysis
- Process Control
1996- 2001 Lecturer of Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering , Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Major Subjects:
- Electric Circuits
- Digital Electronics Design
- Electric Circuits and Machinery
- Electronics Devices & Applications
- Fiber Optics Communication
Industrial Experience
May 1993 - February 1994 System Engineer Astronautic Corporation of America, Milwaukee, WI
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating optical projection and Heads-up-Display systems.
Publications
- Sedig S. Agili and T.K. Ishii, "Theory of Direct Modulation of Lightwaves in Optical Fibers." Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 323-328, 8/5/1998.
- S.S. Agili and T.K. Ishii, "Spectral-Domain Observations of Direct Modulation of Lightwaves in Optical Fibers." Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 296-300, 12/1997.
- S.S.Agili and T.K. Ishii, "Time-Domain Observations of Direct Modulation of Lightwaves in Optical Fibers." Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.216-319, 11/1997.
- Sedig S. Agili, "Direct Electro-Optic Modulation of Lightwaves in Optical Fibers."Ph.D.Dissertation, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, August 1996.
- S.S. Agili and T.K. Ishii, "Direct Modulation of Guided Lightwaves in Optical Fibers." Sigma Xi Poster Session, Marquette University Chapter, Milwaukee, WI, April 3, 1996.
- S.S. Agili and T.K. Ishii, "Self Electro-Optic Effect on an Optical Fiber." Optical Engineering Midwest '95, SPIE Proceeding, Vol. 2622, PP. 328-335.
- Sedig S. Agili, "Electro-Optic Modulation of Guided Lightwaves in Optical Fibers." Sigma Xi poster Session, Marquette University Chapter, Milwaukee, WI, April 12, 1995.
- Sedig S. Agili and T.K. Ishii, "Direct Electro-optic Modulation of Lightwaves in Fibers." Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 7, No. 14, PP. 670-673, Oct 5, 1994.
- Sedig S. Agili, "Electro-Optic Effect in Acrylic Plastics." Sigma Xi Poster Session, Marquette University Chapter, Milwaukee, WI, April 21, 1993.
- Sedig S. Agili, "An Electro-Optic Modulator Using Acrylic Plastics." M.S. Thesis, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, December 1989.
Affiliations
- Member of IEEE
- Member of SPIE, The International Society of Optical Engineering
- Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
College News
Research, innovation partnerships profiled at ’EnerG‘ symposium
Penn State Harrisburg recently hosted a “Research Symposium on EnerG,” an overview of the Innovation Transfer Network effort pairing area business with regional faculty and students on energy-related initiatives aimed at accelerating commercialization.
The symposium brought together all parties involved for an update on the partnerships progress.
Web site profiles American emigration to Liberia
Building on years of research and two published books, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has created a web site dedicated to profiling the historic African American emigration to Liberia.
Associate Professor of Communications and Humanities C. Patrick Burrowes unveiled his interactive web site entitled “Like a Motherless Child: African American Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1904” as part of a presentation to faculty, staff, and students recently in the Gallery Lounge. Taken from the title of the well-known spiritual, “Like a motherless child expresses the overriding feeling of dispossession and alienation felt by the emigrants,” Burrowes says. Many of them former slaves, “they had no mother and they had no homeland,” he adds.
Heard on campus – Franklin and the Junto
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member and Benjamin Franklin scholar George Boudreau terms his recent discovery of a long-lost poem written in 1732 as “one of the greatest finds of my career.”
An associate professor of humanities and history, Boudreau’s research interests focus on Franklin and his philosophical organization called the Junto and the role it played in the cultural transformation of Philadelphia in the 1700s. Boudreau recently related his research findings during a Gallery Lounge presentation hosted by the offices of Academic Affairs and Research and Graduate Studies.