Alan Mickelson is an Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE) and an affiliate member of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities (MC-EDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Dr. Mickelson has 30 years experience in research in communications hardware. His PhD from California Institute of Technology (1978) is in Electromagnetics. Alan spent six months as a National Academy Visiting Scientist at Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1979-1980 and four years at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway as a staff member of Electronikklaboratoriet.

He has worked with fiber optics, integrated optics, millimeter waves as well as microwaves and RF. He has published more than 130 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Alan has been involved with Engineers without Borders, University of Colorado at Boulder (EWBCU) and the MC-EDC since 2007, in particular, applying Information for Communications Technology (ICT) for Development (ICTD) in eastern Nepal and the Peruvian Amazon.

His NapoNet project, presently in the pilot stage, leverages an existing United Nations Global Fund supported malaria reporting network to bring teleeducation to the small villages along the Napo River near the Peru Ecuador border.

 
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