IEEE Awards Booklet - 2013 - 6

2013 IEEE SERVICE AWARDS

2013 IEEE JOINT AWARD

IEEE Haraden Pratt Award

IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk
Maxwell Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation

Funded by Wolfson Microelectronics plc

Richard S. Muller
Richard M. White

Barry L. Shoop

For pioneering innovation and leadership in
micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
technology

For vision and leadership in improving
IEEE operations and governance, and for
building a stronger foundation for IEEE's
strategic future

Barry L. Shoop has made contributions across the breadth of
IEEE that have changed the very fabric of its operations and governance, from local geographic units to the Board of Directors.
His strategic vision has allowed him to lead the way to revolutionary changes within IEEE in the way IEEE thinks about,
supports, and treats its members. One of Dr. Shoop's most impactful accomplishments was his leadership in 2007-2008 as chair
of the Regional Activities Board (RAB) Enterprise Engineering Project Ad Hoc Committee, which transformed RAB into
the Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) group. One of
the largest IEEE transformations in recent history, this change
made the member a priority by focusing on involving members
in all IEEE organizational units through programs and activities.
As the 2010 vice president of MGA, he developed the Regional
Geographic Strategy, which focuses on unique circumstances and
commonality of the local geographic region to improve membership value and drive recruitment and retention. As the 2008-2009
IEEE secretary and chair of the IEEE Governance Committee, he
led the Committee's transformation from being focused solely on
governing documents to being a resource for making IEEE governance more effective. In 2008, as the chair of the Business Management System Ad Hoc Committee, he made recommendations
on how to improve IEEE's IT system that resulted in changes to
the entire IEEE IT enterprise, including structure, governance,
and architecture.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Shoop is professor and deputy head of the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.

The individual and collective contributions of Richard S. Muller
and Richard M. White to the development and advancement
of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) have resulted in
technologies critical to applications ranging from cell phones to
air-bag sensors in automobiles. Dr. White's development in 1965
of a microfabricated surface acoustic wave (SAW) electric filter is
considered an early example of a MEMS device and the first to
receive worldwide commercial attention. Today's mobile phones
rely on SAWs based on Dr. White's work in order to function
properly. Dr. Muller's research in 1965 demonstrating mechanical
coupling into microelectronic devices, and his further work on
fabrication processes during the 1980s, were fundamental to the
growth of MEMS. Dr. Muller and his research group introduced
polysilicon as a structural mechanical material and pioneered
"surface micromachining" for creating MEMS devices. Together,
Drs. Muller and White in 1986 founded the Berkeley Sensor &
Actuator Center (BSAC) with the support of the National Science Foundation at the University of California. Under the pair's
guidance, together with that of a subsequent growing number
of BSAC Directors, this industry/university cooperative research
center has educated generations of students, developing some of
the premier researchers active today in the MEMS field. BSAC
researchers have investigated and contributed in a broad area of
MEMS advances, including those making possible the accelerometers and gyroscopes found in automobile safety systems.
Dr. Muller is an IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S.
National Academy of Engineering. His many honors include the
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (joint with R.T. Howe in 1998) and
Third Millennium Medal (2000). He is a Professor Emeritus and
professor in the Graduate School in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr.White is an IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. His many honors include the
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1996). He is a Professor Emeritus
with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

Scope: For outstanding service to IEEE

Scope: For groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical
engineering or related fields
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