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ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix <p>PREFACE xi</p> <p><b>1 ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS 1</b></p> <p>1.1 He(a)dy Stuff / 1</p> <p>1.2 From Russia without English / 3</p> <p>1.3 On the Shoulders of Giants / 5</p> <p>1.4 Do-it-yourself Execution? / 8</p> <p>1.5 Franklin: Did He or Didn’t He? / 10</p> <p>1.6 De Magnete (“On the Magnet”) / 12</p> <p>1.7 A Eureka Moment / 15</p> <p>1.8 Auld Lang Syne / 17</p> <p>1.9 As Singular as a Delta Function? / 19</p> <p>1.10 Publish or Perish? / 21</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 24</p> <p><b>2 THE EARTH AND BEYOND 27</b></p> <p>2.1 In the Eye of the Beholder / 27</p> <p>2.2 Roses are Red, Violets are Blue… / 30</p> <p>2.3 2003: An Earth Odyssey? / 32</p> <p>2.4 Which Came First: Big Bang or Big Crunch? / 34</p> <p>2.5 Whistling in the Dark? / 36</p> <p>2.6 Going Beyond a Selfie / 38</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 41</p> <p><b>3 SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI) 45</b></p> <p>3.1 Little Green Men: A Phantom Menace? / 45</p> <p>3.2 Waiting for Godot? / 47</p> <p>3.3 Is There Anybody There? / 49</p> <p>3.4 Science or Science Fiction? / 51</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 54</p> <p><b>4 PROFESSIONALISM: ETHICS AND LAW 59</b></p> <p>4.1 Did Maxwell Pull a Fast One? / 59</p> <p>4.2 Cell Phones and Cancer: Anatomy of a Legal Opinion / 61</p> <p>4.3 Happy 200th Anniversary! / 64</p> <p>4.4 Einstein Doesn’t Work Here Anymore / 66</p> <p>4.5 It is a Bird. It is a Plane. It is… / 68</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 71</p> <p><b>5 HEALTH EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS 75</b></p> <p>5.1 Say Au Revoir to Cell Phones? / 75</p> <p>5.2 Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity / 78</p> <p>5.3 From Bell Tower to Cell Tower / 80</p> <p>5.4 Nocebo: Reading This Column may Affect Your Health / 83</p> <p>5.5 Magnetic Pull: Biological Effects or Medical Applications? / 85</p> <p>5.6 Close Encounters With Radiation of the Other Kind / 88</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 91</p> <p><b>6 BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS 95</b></p> <p>6.1 How Many Biologists Does it Take to Fix a Radio? / 95</p> <p>6.2 The Grand Challenges / 97</p> <p>6.3 Biomedical Applications: Taking Stock / 99</p> <p>6.4 Tugging at the Heartstrings / 101</p> <p>6.5 A Jolt from the Blue? / 103</p> <p>6.6 Channeling the Voice Within / 105</p> <p>6.7 Battling Cancer: Microwave Hyperthermia / 107</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 110</p> <p><b>7 DEFENSE APPLICATIONS 113</b></p> <p>7.1 Where is Waldo? / 113</p> <p>7.2 Antimagnet / 115</p> <p>7.3 Cutting to the Chase / 117</p> <p>7.4 Twenty-First Century Warfare / 119</p> <p>7.5 On a Wing and a Prayer / 121</p> <p>7.6 ELF Communication: An Obituary / 122</p> <p>7.7 Catching up with Professor Scarry / 124</p> <p>7.8 Criminal Interference / 126</p> <p>7.9 Wireless Networks: An Electronic Battlefield? / 130</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 133</p> <p><b>8 DOMESTIC AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS 137</b></p> <p>8.1 Blowin’ in the Wind / 137</p> <p>8.2 Sharing the Road / 139</p> <p>8.3 Rare no More? / 141</p> <p>8.4 Local Heating? / 143</p> <p>8.5 Coming Soon to a Wal-Mart Near You / 145</p> <p>8.6 Has Your Cat Gone Phishing? / 148</p> <p>8.7 The Future of Wireless Charging / 150</p> <p>8.8 Electropollution or Sustainable Energy? / 151</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 154</p> <p><b>9 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 157</b></p> <p>9.1 Small is Beautiful / 157</p> <p>9.2 Gigabit Wi-Fi / 159</p> <p>9.3 Open Spectrum: A Tragedy of the Commons? / 161</p> <p>9.4 Near-Field Communication / 163</p> <p>9.5 A New Digital Phone? / 165</p> <p>9.6 Electronic Countermeasures / 167</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW? 170</p> <p><b>10 LIFELONG LEARNING 175</b></p> <p>10.1 Back to Basics / 175</p> <p>10.2 Preaching to the Choir? / 177</p> <p>10.3 The Other Davos? / 180</p> <p>10.4 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; who is the Fairest of Them All? / 182</p> <p>10.5 Equations Redux / 184</p> <p>10.6 New Year’s Resolutions Laws / 185</p> <p>10.7 Through a Glass Darkly / 187</p> <p>10.8 Stranger Than Fiction? / 189</p> <p>10.9 High Frequency Education: What Do You Think? / 191</p> <p>AFTERWORD 195</p> <p>INDEX 197</p>

<p><i><b>Rajeev Bansal, PhD,</b> is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He is a member of IEEE and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy. His editing credits include <i>Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics </i>and  <i>Engineering Electromagnetics: Applications</i>. Dr. Bansal contributes regular columns to <i>IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine and IEEE Microwave Magazine.</i></i></p>

<p><b>This book covers the study of electromagnetic wave theory and describes how electromagnetic technologies affect our daily lives.</b></p> <p><i>From ER to ET: How Electromagnetic Technologies Are Changing Our Lives</i> explores electromagnetic wave theory including its founders, scientific underpinnings, ethical issues, and applications through history. Utilizing a format of short essays, this book explains in a balanced, and direct style how electromagnetic technologies are changing the world we live in and the future they may create for us.  Quizzes at the end of each chapter provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the material. This book is a valuable resource for microwave engineers of varying levels of experience, and for instructors to motivate their students and add depth to their assignments.  In addition, this book:</p> <ul> <li>Presents topics that investigate all aspects of electromagnetic technology throughout history</li> <li>Explores societal and global issues that relate to the field of electrical engineering (emphasized in current ABET accreditation criteria)</li> <li>Includes quizzes relevant to every essay and answers which explain technical perspectives</li> </ul>

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