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2011 IEEE
Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award

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AWA R D S

2011 IEEE
Eric E. Sumner Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Standards
Association

Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

James W. Moore

H. Vincent Poor

For leadership in support of software and systems
engineering standards development, international
standards harmonization and standards education

For pioneering contributions to multiple-access
communications

James W. Moore has been a driving force in unifying international
standards for consistent software engineering guidelines. He
worked tirelessly at aligning the efforts of IEEE and ISO, the two
principal standards development organizations. He was the head
of the U.S. delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 and led the development of U.S. positions on international standards issues. He
provides strategic planning and guidance for the evolution of the
IEEE Computer Society's collection of standards. As the IEEE
Computer Society liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7, Mr. Moore is responsible for a long-term harmonization program to ensure
consistent standards that has already produced results. Since
1998, he has been one of the executive editors of the IEEE
Computer Society's Guide to Software Engineering Body of
Knowledge. It is recognized by both IEEE and ISO/IEC as the authoritative reference on codified software engineering knowledge.
An IEEE Fellow, Mr. Moore is a senior principal information
systems engineer with The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Va.

H. Vincent Poor's innovative signal processing techniques for
handling interference in multiple-access networks have impacted
some of the most important communications technologies
developed over the past 20 years as well as emerging technologies.
His contributions to multiuser detection and related technologies
address the reception of communications signals in the presence of
interfering signals from other users in a wireless network. This work
is particularly useful for today's wireless communication systems,
which typically involve sharing of the radio spectrum among multiple
users to make optimal use of radio resources. He has contributed
techniques that are applicable across a broad spectrum of wireless
multiple-access systems, including multiple-antenna systems,
systems that can adapt to their interference environments and
systems that exploit the redundancy of error-control coding. An
IEEE Fellow, Dr. Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University
Professor of Electrical Engineering and dean of the School of
Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, NJ.

2011 IEEE
Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate
Teaching Award

2011 IEEE
Undergraduate Teaching Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Education Society

Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer
Memorial Fund

Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar

John D. Cressler

For contributions to inspirational classroom teaching and
development of outstanding text books and e-learning
material for electromagnetic waves and transmission lines

For inspirational teaching and student mentoring in the
field of advanced microelectronic devices and circuits

Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar's inspirational teaching methods have
made electromagnetics understandable and enjoyable for a generation of students. Dr. Shevgaonkar's approach is to present field
phenomenon as a natural extension of circuit theory and to put
physical understanding ahead of mathematical steps. Add in concept-oriented practical problems and you have a course that
students rate as one of their best experiences at the Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT), Bombay. A pioneer of distance education, Dr.
Shevgaonkar established the Centre for Distance Engineering
Education Program at IIT, Bombay. He developed Web-based
video courses covering electromagnetics and fiber optics that
have been viewed by colleges throughout India. His textbook,
Electromagnetic Waves (McGraw Hill Education India, 2005), is
one of the most widely used undergraduate textbooks on electromagnetics in India. An IEEE Senior Member, Dr. Shevgaonkar is a
professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT,
Bombay, and the University of Pune, Mumbai, India.

John D. Cressler believes that today's engineering students
require more than just a strong technical background in the
traditional core courses, so he includes unique design experiences within his courses so that students gain exposure to
real-world challenges. As a result, his graduate students enter
the professional world both technically strong and, importantly, aware of the social implications of the technology they
develop. Dr. Cressler instills his passion for social awareness
within his students, examining both the positive and negative
aspects of the micro- and nanoelectronics revolution and
inspires them to use technology to help build a better world.
He also serves as faculty mentor for Georgia Tech's SURE
program, which incorporates top-notch minority undergraduates into research teams for a taste of what graduate school is
really like. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Cressler is the Ken Byers
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
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