This volume contains the proceedings of the first ICASE/LaRC Work- shop
on Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications conducted by the
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering and NASA
Langley Research Center. We had several goals in mind when we decided,
jointly with the Elec- tromagnetics Research Branch, to organize this
workshop on Computa- tional Electromagnetics ( CEM). Among our goals
were a desire to obtain an overview of the current state of CEM,
covering both algorithms and ap- plications and their effect on NASA's
activities in this area. In addition, we wanted to provide an attractive
setting for computational scientists with expertise in other fields,
especially computational fluid dynamics (CFD), to observe the algorithms
and tools of CEM at work. Our expectation was that scientists from both
fields would discover mutually beneficial inter- connections and
relationships. Another goal was to learn of progress in solution
algorithms for electromagnetic optimization and design problems; such
problems make extensive use of field solvers and computational effi-
ciency is at a premium. To achieve these goals we assembled the renowned
group of speakers from academia and industry whose talks are contained
in this volume. The papers are printed in the same order in which the
talks were pre- sented at the meeting. The first paper is an overview of
work currently being performed in the Electromagnetic Research Branch at
the Langley Research Center.