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Robert G. Olsen received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University in 1968 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1970 and 1974 respectively. He presently serves as Boeing Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, WA.
During his service at WSU he has been a visiting scientist at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, MA, at ABB Corporate Research in Västerås, Sweden, and at the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA and a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Prior to WSU he worked for Radio WOR in New York City and the Westinghouse Georesearch Laboratory in Boulder, CO.
Prof. Olsen has published more than 65 refereed journal articles on topics that include electromagnetic interference from power lines, the electromagnetic environment of power lines, low frequency electromagnetic shielding, electromagnetic compatibility, antenna theory and electromagnetic scattering. The National Science Foundation, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Office of Naval Research, Boeing, the Bonneville Power Administration and several utilities have sponsored his work.
In addition to his research, he has served as a consultant on a number of low frequency EMC issues. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and presently serves as chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Corona Effects Fields Working Group, as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, as US National Committee representative to the Conférence Internationale des Grands Réseaux Électriques á Haute Tension (CIGRE) Study Committee 36 (Electromagnetic Compatibility) and a member of the Electric Power Research Institute EMF Science Advisory Committee. Past appointments include chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society AC Fields Working Group, Associate Editor of Radio Science and membership on the National Research Council Committee to evaluate the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program. He also has been on the international steering committee for EMC Roma 96, EMC Roma 98 and EMC Europe 2000. EMC