Shawn Carpenter received his BEE degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology in 1988, and an MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University in 1991 concurrently with the General Electric Thomas Edison Advanced Course in Engineering program. He has served as a Senior Microwave Engineer in Module Design and Array Technology for the GE Aerospace Electronics Laboratory (Syracuse, NY), VP Sales and Marketing for Sonnet Software Inc., and Director, Sales & Marketing for Delcross Technologies.
Shawn joined Ansys Inc. during the 2015 acquisition of Delcross Technologies and is currently a Program Director for 5G and Space applications. His current interests include phased-array modeling techniques for MIMO and adaptive beamforming, installed antenna-host interactions, mmWave radar sensor modeling, and wireless physical channel modeling for electrically large environments. He’s also an active amateur radio (ham) operator with the callsign N2JET, embracing a hobby he adopted at age 11.