IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
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The IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, which was initially called the IEEE Graduate Teaching Award, is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that has been presented annually since 1992 to an individual by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) "for inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest". The award was established in 1990 by the Board of Directors of the IEEE and was renamed in 2002 to honor Leon K. Kirchmayer for his dedication to "student
s and education
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Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
(IEEE) "for inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest". The award was established in 1990 by the Board of Directors of the IEEE and was renamed in 2002 to honor Leon K. Kirchmayer for his dedication to "student
Student
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
s and education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
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Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.
Recipients
The following people received the IEEE (Leon K. Kirchmayer) Graduate Teaching Award:- 1992: James H. Mulligan, Jr.
- 1993: Rudolf Saal
- 1994: Thomas K. Gaylord
- 1995: Alberto Sangiovanni-VincentelliAlberto Sangiovanni-VincentelliAlberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is an academic researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, technical advisor and business man. He is a co-founder of the two largest EDA companies: Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys, Inc....
- 1996: Sung Mo KangSung Mo KangSung-Mo “Steve” Kang is an electrical engineering scientist, professor, author, inventor and entrepreneur. Kang was appointed as the second chancellor of the University of California, Merced in 2007. He was the first department head of foreign origin at the electrical and computer engineering...
- 1997: Ronold W. P. KingRonold W. P. KingRonold Wyeth Percival King was an American applied physicist, known forhis contributions to the theory and application of microwave antennas....
- 1998: Gabor C. Temes
- 1999: Lester Fuess Eastman
- 2000: Weng Cho Chew
- 2001: Harold Vincent Poor
- 2002: Vijay K. Bhargava
- 2003: Robert G. Meyer
- 2004: Simon HaykinSimon HaykinSimon Haykin received theB.Sc. , Ph.D., and D.Sc. degreesfrom the University of Birmingham, Birmingham,U.K., all in electrical engineering.On the completion of his Ph.D. studies, he spent...
- 2005: Jagdishkumar Aggarwal
- 2006: Toby BergerToby BergerDr. Toby Berger is a noted American information theorist.Berger was born in New York City, received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1962, and doctoral degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1968. From 1962-1968 he was also a senior scientist...
- 2007: Michael ShurMichael ShurMichael Shur is the Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 professor of solid state electronics and an electrical engineering professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.-Background:...
- 2008: Supriyo DattaSupriyo DattaSupriyo Datta is an Indian born American researcher and author. He is currently the Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor at the School of Electrical Engineeirng at Purdue University...
- 2009: Roger W. BrockettRoger W. BrockettRoger Ware Brockett is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.-Biography:...
- 2010: Alan N. Willson, Jr.
- 2011: John D. Cressler
- 2012: Anthony G. Constantinides