engineering

Kate Remley

Kate Remley is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kate Remley rather than just read about it. In short: Catherine A. Remley is an American radio metrologist in the Communications Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she heads the Metrology for Wireless Systems Group.

Key takeaways

Kate Remley belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Kate Remley to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Kate Remley from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Catherine A. Remley is an American radio metrologist in the Communications Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she heads the Metrology for Wireless Systems Group.

Education and career Remley is originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She became a radio broadcast engineer in Eugene, Oregon from 1983 to 1992. Returning to graduate study, she completed a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Oregon State University in 1999. Her dissertation, Time domain modeling of electromagnetic radiation with application to ultrafast electronic and wireless communication, was supervised by Andreas Weisshaar. In the same year she joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. She became leader of Metrology for Wireless Systems at NIST in 2003. She was editor-in-chief of IEEE Microwave Magazine from 2009 to 2011.

Recognition Remley was named to the Academy of Distinguished Engineers of the Oregon State University College of Engineering in 2011. In 2013, she was elected as an IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to calibration and measurement of wireless communication systems". She was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society for 2016 to 2018. She is a recipient of the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal and Department of Commerce Silver Medal. In 2019, she and Nada Golmie were given NIST's William P. Schlichter Award, "for their leadership of the NIST 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance". Throughout her career, she has made over 60 publications. One that she did by herself is called "Let's Keep Women in Microwaves (But Let's Turn Down the Heat)"

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kate Remley

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kate Remley claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kate Remley before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kate Remley ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kate Remley

In research: Kate Remley appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kate Remley in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kate Remley is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century American engineers, 21st-century American women engineers, American electrical engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kate Remley outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Kate Remley in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Kate Remley means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Kate Remley out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Kate Remley in simple terms?

Why does Kate Remley matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Kate Remley?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Kate Remley.