I'm George Hanson I'm a professor and chair of Electrical Engineering here at UWM. 
I do research on eletromagnetics. The most common example would be antennas.
For the last 50 years circuits and transistors have gotten smaller every year
There's been more transistors packed into IC chips every year.
So everything is getting smaller. The transistors are getting down to 
the size of a few atoms and everyone wants smaller, lighter, faster, and more powerful. 
We've been doing a lot of research work on
nano eletromagentics which is electromagnetic interactions - antennas and things like that at the nanoscale
One thing we've looked at are things carbon nanotubes.
These carbon nanotubes are about a thousand times smaller than a human hair. 
And so we study how waves interact with these small systems.
So you can have an entire electronic system 
in an area that's probably a million times smaller than a grain of sand. 
And so you have to communicate with that
system, get energy in and out, get signals in and out
and so we look at how electromagnetic radiation
interacts with those small structures
and how we can communicate with them.
We've had more and more students, undergraduate
students participating in faculty research
and undergraduates are getting more and more involved
and it's really a great thing for the graduate students that work with them,
for the faculty that work with them and for the students themselves.
So it kind of really rounds out their educational experience. 
My name is George Hanson and I'm a Milwaukee Engineer.
