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ACADEMIC STAFF
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Name of Staff: |
Tham Choy Yoong |
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Designation: |
Professor |
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Qualifications: |
BEng(Hons)(Malaya), MSc(Brunel), PhD(Wales), PEng, CEng, MIEM, MIET, MIMechE. |
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Biodata: |
Tham Choy Yoong studied engineering at the University of Malaya, earned a Masters with distinction from Brunel University London and the PhD from the University of Wales Swansea. He spent 10 years working in various capacities in industry including several years in the public sector, and another 14½ years as a founding partner of a consulting engineers’ firm. He worked as a senior research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Swansea, and spent 3½ years doing postdoctoral research in astrophysics with the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.
Tham is a Registered Professional Engineer in two fields (Electrical, Mechanical) and a Chartered Engineer of the UK Engineering Council. He is a certified competent electrical engineer by the Energy Commission of Malaysia and a certified steam engineer by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health.
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Course Development Experience: |
Course Assessor (Internal): TEL303/05 Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques.
Course Writer: TEE209/05 Field Theory Unit 5 (revision), TAI309/10 CIS Project (Course Guide), TEC309/10 EC Project (Course Guide), TSN309/10 (Course Guide), TEL309/10 EL Project (Course Guide), TIC309/10 ICT Project (Course Guide), TCM207/05 Construction Project Case Study (Course Guide).
Course Team Academic Member: TBE101/05 Building Materials, TBE103/05 Environmental Design, TBE105/05 Basic Surveying and Building Construction, TCM203/05 Legal System and Construction Law, TBE203/05 Infrastructures and Structural Elements, TBE205/05 Building Services, TBE207/05 Construction Cost Estimation, TCM303/05 Building Quantities Practice, TCM305/05 Construction Project Management, TCM307/05 Contract Administration, TCM525/03 Sustainability, Health, Safety and Environmental Issues, TMM521/04 Advanced Manufacturing, TMM523/04 Total Quality Techniques. |
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Research Interest: |
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Experimental cosmology; development of optics design for radio telescopes and receiver instruments for detection at terahertz frequency range; cosmic microwave background radiation simulation techniques.
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Terahertz optics; millimetre/submillimetre mixers, superconducting tunnel junction detectors, analysis and computational methods for superconducting mm-wave circuits, waveguides, partially-coherent vector fields in antenna feeds and detector arrays.
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Computational electromagnetics; the method of moment, transient electromagnetics, antennas, wave propagation in waveguides and other wave structures.
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Selected Publications: |
1. Kim Ho Yeap, Choy Yoong Tham, Kee Choon Yeong, and Haw Jiunn Woo, "Wave Propagation in Lossy and Superconducting Circular Waveguides," Radioengineering Journal, Proceedings of Czech and Slovak Technical Universities, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 320 - 325, June 2010.
2. Kim Ho Yeap, Choy Yoong Tham, Kee Choon Yeong, and Eng Hock Lim, “Full wave analysis of normal and superconducting microstrip transmission lines”, Frequenz Journal of RF-Engineering and Telecommunications, Vol. 64, April 2010, pp. 59 – 66.
3. Kim Ho Yeap, Choy Yoong Tham, Kee Choon Yeong, and Kim Huat Yeap, “A simple method for calculating attenuation in waveguides”, Frequenz Journal of RF-Engineering and Telecommunications, Vol. 63, 2009, pp. 236 – 240.
4. C Y Tham, G Yassin, and M Carter, “Analysis techniques for the optics in millimetre/submillimetre wave radio telescope receivers”, Jurnal Fizik Malaysia Vol 28 No.1&2, March & June 2007, pp. 49 – 53.
5. Carter, M C, A Baryshev, M Harman, B Lazareff, J Lamb, S Navarro, D John, A-L Fontana, G Ediss, C Y Tham, S Withington, F Tercero, R Nesti, G-H Tan, Y Sekimoto, M Matsunaga, H Ogawa, and S Claude, "ALMA front-end optics," Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, vol.5489, 2004, pp.1074-1084.
6. C Y Tham, D Poljak, A McCowen, and M S Towers, “Energy in transient electromagnetic field of wire array antennas”, 12th Int. Conf. on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2004), October 11 - 13, 2004, Split, Croatia – Venice, Italy, pp. 87 - 91.
7. D Poljak, C Y Tham, V Roje, and A McCowen, “Transient response of nonlinearly loaded thin wires in a two media configuration”, IEEE Trans. Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 46, No. 1, Feb. 2004, pp. 121 – 125.
8. S Withington, C Y Tham, and G Yassin, “Theoretical analysis of planar bolometric arrays for THz imaging systems”, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers Int. Conf. on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 22 – 28 Aug. 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii, paper 4855-05 session 2 Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy (Invited paper), Proc. SPIE 4855, 49-62 (2003).
9. S Withington, E Campbell, G Yassin, C Y Tham, S Wolfe, and K Jacobs, “Beam-combining superconducting detector for submillimetre-wave astronomical interferometry”, Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 7, 3 Apr. 2003, pp. 605 – 606.
10. C Y Tham, A McCowen, and M S Towers, “Modelling of PCB transients with boundary elements/method of moments in the frequency domain”, International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 27, Issue 4, Elsevier Science, Apr. 2003, pp. 315 - 323.
11. D Poljak, C Y Tham, O Gandhi, and A Sarolic, “Human equivalent antenna model for transient electromagnetic radiation exposure”, IEEE Trans. Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 45, No. 1, Feb. 2003, pp. 141 – 145.
12. C Y Tham, A McCowen, M S Towers, and D Poljak, “A dynamic adaptive sampling technique in frequency domain transient analysis”, IEEE Trans. Electromagnetic Compatibility Vol. 44, No. 4, Nov. 2002, pp. 522 - 528.
13. D Poljak, E K Miller, and C Y Tham, “Time domain energy measures for the thin wire antennas and scatterers”, IEEE Antennas & Propagation Mag. Vol. 44, No. 1, Feb. 2002, pp. 87 - 95.
14. C Y Tham, A McCowen, and M S Towers, “Efficient modeling of PCB transients via a full-wave 3D frequency domain integral equation”, IEEE Trans. Magnetics, Vol. 37, No. 5, Sept. 2001, pp. 3676 – 3679.
15. C Y Tham, S Withington, and G Yassin, “Computational method for partially-coherent fields in waveguide-horn bolometers”, 9th Int. Conf. on TeraHertz Electronics, 15 – 16 Oct., 2001, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. |
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Official Correspondence Address: |
School of Science and Technology
Wawasan Open University
54 Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah
10050 Penang |
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Email Address: |
cytham@wou.ed.my |
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