Jeremy Allnutt earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical
engineering from the University of Salford,
UK, in 1966 and 1970, respectively. From 1970 to 1977 he was at the
Appleton Laboratory in Slough,
England, where he ran propagation experiments with the US satellite
ATS-6 and the European satellites
SIRIO and OTS. In 1977 he moved to BNR, now Nortel, in Ottawa, Canada,
and worked on satellite and
rural communications projects before joining the International
Telecommunications Satellite Organization
(INTELSAT) in Washington, DC, in 1979. Jeremy Allnutt spent 15 years at
INTELSAT in various
departments. During this period he ran experimental programs in Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South
America, Australia, and New Zealand, finishing as Chief, Communications
Research Section. Jeremy
Allnutt spent one year as Professor of Telecommunications Systems at
the University of York, England,
and then joined the Northern Virginia Center of Virginia Tech in 1986,
where he later ran the masters
program in ECE as well as being on the team that designed and set up
the Masters in Information
Technology program. In August of 2000 he moved to George Mason
University with dual appointments:
Director of the new Masters in Telecommunications program (http://telecom.gmu.edu/)
and Professor in the ECE department. Jeremy
Allnutt has published 100 papers in conferences and journals and
written one book, most in his special
field: radiowave propagation. He is a Fellow of the UK IEE and a Senior
Member of the US IEEE.