Cynthia M. Furse (née Mahoney,[1] born 1963) is an American electrical engineer, the director of graduate studies and a distinguished professor in the University of Utah Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
[2] Her research involves the use of finite-difference time-domain methods in computational simulations of the absorption and reflection of radio waves by other materials,[3] with applications including the use of spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry to diagnose aircraft wiring systems, the design of antennae in medical implants, and the effects of cell phone emissions on the human body.
[9] Her master's work was mentored by Magdy Iskander; Om P. Gandhi became her doctoral supervisor.
[14] She was named Professor of the Year in the Utah State University College of Engineering in 2000.
[8] She was the 2009 recipient of the Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society,[15] and the 2020 recipient of the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, given to her "for motivating, challenging, educating, and inspiring the next generation of EM engineers through innovative teaching, hands-on experiences, current research, and lively participation".