• Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Robert D. Nevels

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky

Research Interests

    • Analytical and numerical electromagnetics
    • Nanophotonics
    • Electromagnetic scattering
    • Antennas

Certifications & Memberships

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Fellow, Electromagnetics Academy (EM)

Awards & Honors

  • President, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) – 2010
  • Eugene E.Webb'43 Faculty Fellow
  • Administrative Committee member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) – 1998-2001, 2011-2014
  • Region 5 Outstanding Educator Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Technical Educator of the Year, the Clear Lake Council of Technical Societies
  • Technical Educator Award, The Clear Lake Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Outstanding Professor Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Texas A&M Student Chapter (twice)
  • University-level Distinguished Teaching Award, The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M University
  • College-level Distinguished Teaching Award, The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M University (twice)
  • The Amoco Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching

Selected Publications

  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “General vector auxiliary differential equation finite-difference time-domain method for rotationally symmetric vector wave…,” arXiv, abs, 2504.21201v1, 2025.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “Extending the FDTD GVADE method nonlinear polarization vector to include anisotropy," Opt. Express 33, 3601-3619, 2025.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “The Coulomb Gauge in Electromagnetics,” Chapter in Encyclopedia of Microwave and RF Engineering, Vol. 1, 2nd Ed: C.T. Rodenbeck, John Wiley & Sons, 849-863, Oct. 2024.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “Propagator Methods in Electromagnetics,” Chapter in Applied Electromagnetics, 2nd Ed., A. Lakhtakia and C. Furse, Springer Nature, 2023, April 2024.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “Rotationally symmetric transverse magnetic vector wave propagation for nonlinear optics,” Opt. Express 32, 17853-17868, 2024.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. 2024. “The Resonance Condition for Slow Wave Antennas: a Lagrangian Approach.” 10.48550/arXiv.2410.01662.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “Optical Pulse Propagation in a Nonlinear Dispersive Medium,” TAMU/Princeton Physics of Quantum Optics Symposium, Casper, Wyoming, July 2021.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “High Power Short Pulse Optical Frequency Propagation in the Atmosphere,” IEEE AP-S and URSI International Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Montreal, July 2020.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “Identifying the limits of geometric optics ray tracing by numerically solving the vector Kirchhoff integral,’ Opt. Express 28, 10670-10682, 2020.
  • Nevels, R.D., et al. “Electromagnetic Scattering in Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems,” IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/Access.2019.2932506, 2019.