Rate My Professor Brent Petersen

Brent Petersen is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. He earned a B.Eng. from Carleton University in 1985, an M.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in 1987, and a Ph.D. from Carleton University in 1992. Prior to joining UNB in 1997, Petersen held a postdoctoral fellowship at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he contributed to an EC-funded RACE project on spread spectrum systems for commercial applications. From 1994 to 1997, he was affiliated with the University of Calgary and TR Labs, focusing on interference suppression in wireless applications. His academic background also includes professional experience at Cybernex, Northern Telecom, Bell Northern Research, and the Defense Research Establishment Ottawa during his undergraduate studies.

Petersen’s research interests encompass digital communications, space-time antenna arrays, CubeSats, microwave engineering, electromagnetics, radio propagation, equalization, fibre optics, computer networking, and cellular location techniques. His teaching areas include computer networking and electromagnetics. He has received several honors, including the Communications Networks and Services Conference Best Paper Award in 2006, the First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award from IBM Research Division in 1994, the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement from Carleton University in 1985, and a Certificate of Distinction in the Descartes Mathematics Competition from the University of Waterloo in 1981. Petersen maintains involvement in professional activities such as CubeSat initiatives and amateur radio.