IEEE Awards Booklet - 2011 - 5

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2011 IEEE
James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal

2011 IEEE
Founders Medal

Sponsored by Mathworks, Pearson Education, Inc.,
National Instruments Foundation, and the IEEE Life
Members Committee

Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation

Raj Mittra

James F. Gibbons

For contributions to graduate education, engineering
research and research training in electromagnetic
communication

For leadership in engineering research, education
and administration, and for building bridges between
academia and industry

Raj Mittra's technical expertise and dedication to teaching have
helped set the trends in electromagnetics research for over five
decades. Dr. Mittra specializes in the design of electromagnetic
systems such as radars, satellite antennas, communication
systems, microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits and
instruments for remote sensing and geophysical prospecting.
His role in the design of these systems is primarily in the development of special-purpose computer programs and algorithms
that are capable of solving problems that are well beyond the
reach of commercially available computer codes. He has transferred his expertise to graduate and postdoctoral students
through innovative classroom instruction at the University of
Illinois and Pennsylvania State University and with important
publications and popular short courses. Dr. Mittra has graduated
over 100 Ph.D. students and has mentored over 60 postdoctorates and visiting scholars who have specialized in the areas of
computational electromagnetics, antennas, sensing, metamaterials, integrated circuits and electronic packaging. He has
published over 1,000 technical papers and more than 30 books
or book chapters related to electromagnetics. Dr. Mittra has
directed short courses on pioneering electromagnetics topics
held at universities around the world and in-house at many
companies, extending the reach of his knowledge beyond his
classroom. He has attracted the best and brightest to study
under him, and his students' thesis work has often transferred to
industry with lasting impact, providing more efficient and costeffective design solutions.

For over 50 years, James F. Gibbons' commitment to building
relationships between academia and industry has been a key to
the success of Stanford University's School of Engineering and
has also helped fuel innovations developed by Silicon Valley. He
built Stanford's first semiconductor processing laboratory in 1957,
creating a major new direction for Stanford's Electrical Engineering
Department. Later, he was instrumental in creating Stanford's
Center for Integrated Systems (CIS, 1980), providing a first-class
facility for faculty and students to prototype state-of-the-art chips
and explore research questions. Dr. Gibbons and his colleagues
created a new model for the Center that allows corporate partners
to provide support for and actively participate in its ongoing
research. The CIS continues to serve as an important industry
source for precompetitive research. As dean of Stanford's School
of Engineering from 1984 to 1996, he brought the Department of
Computer Science into the School and initiated integration of
that discipline into its teaching and research. He was instrumental
in fundraising efforts that led to construction of the Gates
Computer Science Building, the Paul Allen Wing for CIS, the
Packard Electrical Engineering Building and the Hewlett Teaching
Center. With the participation of venture capitalists, he created
the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund to build the School's
endowment, and he initiated education in entrepreneurship
through the widely respected Stanford Technology Ventures
program. Dr. Gibbons' research contributions include pioneering
work on implantation and rapid thermal processing for semiconductor chips, both of which are foundational technologies in
today's semiconductor industry. He also developed in 1972 a video-based learning process called Tutored Video Instruction (TVI),
combining video instruction with an on-site tutor to provide graduate-level education to engineers in the field, a program especially
valuable for companies with global engineering teams. An IEEE
Life Fellow, Dr. Gibbons is currently a research professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, Calif.

An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Mittra is currently director of the
Electromagnetic Communication Lab at Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, and has a part-time appointment as a
Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department
at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dammam,
Saudi Arabia.

Scope: For outstanding contributions in the leadership,
planning, and administration of affairs of great value to the electrical and electronics engineering profession.

Scope: For a career of outstanding contributions to education in
the fields of interest of IEEE.

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