Education Profile

  • ​B.SC. in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  • M.SC. in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Garret McKerricher obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Professor Atif Shamim at Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas & Circuit Technology (IMPACT) Research Group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Currently, Garret is working as a Scientist at Electroninks Incorporated in Austin, Texas.

Research Interests

Garret's research interests included ​Antenna design, Radio frequency and millimeter-wave Circuits, Printed electronics, RFID and sensor design, Wireless localization, navigation and communications techniques.

Selected Publications

​G. McKerricher, J. Wight, “Design of a Shaped Beam RFID Reader Antenna” Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference (ANTEM-AMEREM), Ottawa Canada, July 2010.
G. McKerricher, J. Wight, “Quadrifilar Helix antenna for UHF RFID” Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium(APS URSI), Toronto Canada, July 2010.