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Dr. James F. Corum
Dr. James F. Corum: Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University (1974), MSEE from
Ohio State (1967), and BSEE from Lowell Technological Institute (1965).
Dr. Corum taught and conducted research in electromagnetics, antennas, RF
telecommunications, astrophysics (radio astronomy), mathematics (tensors
and differential geometry) and relativistic electrodynamics for 17 years
in academia before turning to private industry. He was an Electronic
Engineer for the National Security Agency and a Researcher at the Ohio
State Radio Observatory. He was a tenured Associate Professor on the
faculty at West Virginia University (where he was the principal thesis
advisor to a dozen Masters and Ph.D. candidates), a Professor at The Ohio
Institute of Technology, and a Senior Scientist at the Battelle Institute
in Columbus, Ohio. He served as Chief Scientist at Scientific
Applications and Research Associates, Inc., in Huntington Beach, CA, and
as the Chief Scientist for the Institute for Software Research, in
Fairmont, WV. Currently, he is Chief Technical Officer for CPG
Technologies. Collectively, he has received over a dozen awards for
excellence in teaching and outstanding research from these institutions.
Dr. Corum is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (belonging to the Antennas and Propagation Society, the
Professional Group on Microwave Theory and Techniques, the Broadcast
Engineering Society, the Professional Group on Engineering Education, and
the Plasma Science Society). He was Chairman of the Upper Monongahelia
Subsection of the IEEE and Board Member of the Pittsburgh Section of the
IEEE. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American
Association of Physics Teachers, the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, the American Society for Engineering Education, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Research Society of
North America (Sigma Xi). He is a Life Member of both the American Radio
Relay League and the Quarter-Century Wireless Association. He is listed
in Who's Who in Engineering, Who's Who in American Education,
Leading Consultants in High Technology, Who's Who of American
Inventors, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, American
Men and Women of Science, and more than a dozen other professional and
biographical dictionaries.
Dr. Corum has published over 100 notes and technical papers (in such
prestigious magazines as the Journal of Mathematical Physics, the
Proceedings of the IEEE, Soviet Physics Uspekhi, IEEE Spectrum, Microwave
Systems News, Transactions of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, etc.), several
monographs, 5 patents (he invented the contra-wound toroidal helix antenna
technology), and has contributed chapters to seven books. His primary
publications concern relativistic rotation and nonsymmetric affine
connections in nonholonomic space geometries. Additionally, he is
internationally recognized as a science historian (serving as an advisor
and board member for several scientific historical societies), and he has
recently completed a compendium of translations of 100 papers on
differentiable manifolds and the early asymmetric unified field theories
of Einstein, Schouten, Cartan and Schrödinger.
Dr. Corum was invited as a guest of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the
Institute of High Temperatures in Moscow, and his work on Ball Lightning
and High Voltage Pulsed RF Sources has appeared in the Soviet literature.
He has lectured at Berkeley, Imperial College (London), The Ohio State
University, and Belgrade University. He has consulted for private
industry and for DARPA, DoD, DIA, IDA, NRO, CIA, AFOSR, NEODTC, ARO, NASA,
NIOSH, DOE and other governmental agencies.
He was cited as a "National Treasure" by The Office of the US
Secretary of Defense for his work on the DARPA National Panel of Radar
Experts on Ultra-WideBand Radar and Phenomenology. His engineering
practice has taken him around the globe, from Moscow, Russia to Kwajelein
Atoll. The recipient of many research and teaching awards, his
electromagnetic research has been recognized by prestigious scientific
organizations and professional societies around the world.
Kenneth L. Corum
Kenneth L. Corum: B.A. in Physics from Gordon College (1976)
and graduate work in Electrical Engineering at the University of
Massachusetts.
After graduating from Gordon, Mr. Corum taught Physics and General Science
at Franklin High School, Franklin, MA. Subsequently, he entered private
industry and has taught computer electronics, digital techniques, and
software engineering, for Compugraphic Corporation, ATEX, Inc., and Sun
Microsystems, in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands,
Russia, and across the US. He was also employed by the Microwave
Semiconductor Division of Varian Associates in Beverly, MA where he
developed RF semiconductor devices. Mr. Corum was Director of the
Commercial TV Satellite Division of Pinzone Communications, he was a
software consultant with Hewlett-Packard, and he is now a Staff Consultant
for Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA.
He is the recipient of many industrial and teaching awards. His
fundamental work on the electromagnetic generation of ball lightning has
been published in Russian by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He spoke by
invitation in Novi Sad and in Belgrade as a guest of the Serbian Academy
of Sciences and Arts in 1993. Mr. Corum has co-authored six books and
published more than sixty technical papers, and he is listed in
Outstanding Young Men of America and in American Men and Women of
Science.