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List of Professors
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Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Henry Smith Carhart |
1889 - 1912 | Professor of Physics |
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George Herbert Rowe |
1892 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Carroll Dunham Jones |
1897 - 1901 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Benjamin Franklin Bailey |
1899 - 1945 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Chair of Electrical Engineering |
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Ernst Steck |
1901 - 1907 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Lyman F. Morehouse |
1902 - 1910 |
Instructor in Electrical Engineering Instructor in Physics |
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Henry Harold Higbie |
1905 - 1947 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
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Frederick Abraham De Lay |
1906 - 1907 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Ralzemond Drake Parker |
1906 - 1915 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Loren Wallace McOmber |
1908 - 1910 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Harry Laurence Tanner |
1909 - 1913 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Alfred Henry Lovell |
1910 - 1953 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Carl DeMuralt |
1910 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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John C. Parker |
1910 - 1922 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Chair of Department of Electrical Engineering |
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Joseph Raleigh Nelson |
1910 - 1943 | Professor of Engineering English |
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John Fay Wilson |
1911 - 1915 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Lewis Dow Rowell |
1911 - 1912 | Non-resident Lecturer in Electrical Engineering |
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Theodore Henry Hinchman |
1912 - 1913 | Non-Resident Lecturer in Electrical Engineering |
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Harry Stevenson Sheppard |
1913 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Harold Douglas Wines |
1913 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Thomas J. Mackavanagh |
1915 - 1918 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Porter H. Evans |
1916 - 1918 | Instructor of Engineering Drawing |
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Arthur Dearth (A D) Moore |
1916 - 1965 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Frank Ralph Zumbro |
1916 - 1918 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Ward F. Davidson |
1916 - 1923 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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George Augustus Pomeroy |
1916 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Harold Lyman Ballard |
1917 - 1920 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Lawrence William Brunson |
1917 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Joseph Henderson Cannon |
1918 - 1953 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Edwin Blythe Stason |
1919 - 1960 |
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Law Dean of Law School |
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James Ferdinand Fairman |
1919 | Assistant Profesor of Electrical Engineering |
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Gordon Rowen Anderson |
1920 - 1921 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Stephen Stanley Attwood |
1920 - 1965 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Chair of Department of Electrical Engineering Dean of Engineering |
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Erwin Ernest Dreese |
1920 - 1924 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Andrew L. Miller |
1921 - 1924 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Hemstead Stratton Bull |
1922 - 1967 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Melville Bigham Stout |
1922 - 1965 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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James S. Gault |
1922 - 1951 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Lewis Nelson Holland |
1924 - 1967 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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William Littell Everitt |
1924 - 1926 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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William G. Dow |
1929 - 1965 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Arlen Roosevelt Hellwarth |
1930 - 1974 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Associate Dean Emeritus & Secretary Emeritus of Engineering |
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Henry Jacob Gomberg |
1942 - 1967 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Nuclear Engineering Chair of Nuclear Engineering |
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Jack Fribley Cline |
1942 - 1953 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Theodore H. Berlin |
1943 - 1946 |
Research Associate of Chemistry Research Physicist Engineering Research Institute Navy Theoretical Physicist |
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John Joseph Carey |
1946 - 1972 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Louis F. Kazda |
1946 - 1984 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Arthur W. Burks |
1946 - 1986 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Philosophy |
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Nelson Spencer |
1946 - 1960 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Research Engineer Michigan Research Institute |
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Thomas Edwin Talpey |
1946 - 1953 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Homer William Welch |
1946 - 1956 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Richard K. Brown |
1947 - 1987 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Edwin Richard Martin |
1947 - 1956 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Harold C. Early |
1947 - 1969 |
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Research Engineer Engineering Research Institute |
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Walter Alfred Hedrich |
1947 - 1962 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Lyman Walton Orr |
1947 - 1964 |
Instructor in Electrical Engineering Research Engineer Engineering Research Institute |
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William Kerr |
1948 - 1989 |
Professor of Nuclear Engineering Chair of Nuclear Engineering Director Michigan Memoria Phoenix Project |
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Melvin Burtus Folkert |
1948 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Phil H. Rogers |
1948 - 1955 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Keeve M. Siegel |
1948 - 1967 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Research Engineer Director of Radiation Laboratory |
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Joseph Aubrey Boyd |
1949 - 1962 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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George Raymond Brewer |
1949 - 1952 | Research Associate Engineering Research Institute |
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Kenneth Arnold Stone |
1949 - 1957 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Alan B. Macnee |
1950 - 1989 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Norman R. Scott |
1951 - 1987 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Dean of the Dearborn Campus 1968-1970 |
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Thomas W. Butler |
1951 - 1974 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Har
vey L Garner |
1951 - 1970 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Computer & Communication Sciences |
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Hansford W. Farris |
1952 - 1982 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Jules Sid Needle |
1952 - 1955 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Joseph Galluchat Tarboux |
1952 - 1959 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Edward A. Martin |
1953 - 1954 | Instructor in Electrical Engineering |
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Joseph E. Rowe |
1953 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Chair of Electrical Engineering |
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Gunnar Hok |
1953 - 1970 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Gordon E. Peterson |
1953 - 1967 |
Professor of Speech and Electrical Engineering Chair of Department of Communication Sciences |
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Chiao-Min Chu |
1955 - 1989 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Dale Mills Grimes |
1956 - 1976 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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James R. Black |
1956 - 1961 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Bernard A. Galler |
1956 - 1994 |
Professor of Computer Science Professor of Mathematics |
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Emmett N. Leith |
1956 - 2005 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Charles B. Sharpe |
1956 - 1988 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Chai Yeh |
1956 - 1981 | Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Frederick J Beutler |
1957 - 1989 |
Professor of Aerospace Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Ben F. Barton |
1957 - 1993 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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James Carlisle Mouzon |
1957 - 1971 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Raymond F. Mosher |
1957 - 1975 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Thomas B. A. Senior |
1957 - 1998 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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William M. Brown |
1958 - 1984 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Herschel Weil |
1958 - 1986 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Newbern Smith |
1959 - 1972 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Kuei Chuang |
1959 - 1995 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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John A. Lyon |
1959 - 1983 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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E. Lawrence McMahon |
1959 - 1993 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Andrejs Olte |
1959 - 1995 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Arch W. Naylor |
1960 - 1994 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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George I. Haddad |
1960 - 2005 |
Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Robert J Hiller Professor Chair of Electrical Engineering |
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Charles W. McMullen |
1960 - 1986 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Richard F. Schwartz |
1960 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Richard L. Phillips |
1961 - 1987 |
Professor of Aerospace Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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William L. Root |
1961 - 1987 |
Professor of Aerospace Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Keki B. Irani |
1961 - 1998 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Ronald J. Lomax |
1961 - 2000 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Marlin P. Ristenbatt |
1961 - 1998 | Research Scientist Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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William A. Porter |
1961 - 1977 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Richard F. Arnold |
1962 - 1966 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Ralph E. Hiatt |
1962 - 1980 | Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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William B. Ribbens |
1962 - 1999 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Aerospace Engineering |
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George W. Stoke |
1962 - 1967 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Andrew F. Nagy |
1963 - 2009 |
Professor Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Nino A. Masnari |
1963 - 1979 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Hsung-Cheng Hsieh |
1964 - 1965 | Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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William N. Lawrence |
1964 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Richard A. Volz |
1964 - 1989 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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William J. Williams |
1964 - 2001 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Chen T Tai |
1964 - 1985 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Jack Horvath |
1964 | Research Engineer |
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David Taeusch |
1964 | Associate Research Physicist |
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Robert N. Magnusson |
1965 - 1966 | Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Larry K. Flanigan |
1965 - 1999 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Anthony J. Pennington |
1965 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Daniel G. Green |
1966 - 2002 |
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Ophthalmology |
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Donald A. Calahan |
1966 - 1999 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Larry K. Flanigan |
1966 - 1999 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Ward D. Getty |
1966 - 1999 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Peter J. Khan |
1967 - 1976 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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John F. Meyer |
1967 - 2002 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Theodore G. Birdsall |
1967 - 1996 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Walter R. Curtice |
1967 - 1972 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Richard S. Stolarski |
1967 - 1974 |
Research Associate, Electrical Engineering Lecturer in Meteorology & Oceanography |
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Spencer L. BeMent |
1968 - 2000 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Thomas John Nelson |
1968 - 1971 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Sunil N. Shabde |
1968 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Mark K. Enns |
1969 - 1978 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Leo C. McAfee Jr |
1969 - 2011 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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David J. Anderson |
1970 - 2005 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professor of Otorhinolaryngology |
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Kan Chen |
1971 - 1995 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning Research Scientist, UMTRI |
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Sami Erol Gelenbe |
1973 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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William C. Rounds |
1973 - 2008 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Francisco D. Galiana |
1974 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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David L. Neuhoff |
1974 - 2019 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Sundaram Ganapathy |
1976 - 1977 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Dean F. Peterson |
1976 - 1983 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Jack R. East |
1977 - 2006 | Research Scientist Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Nozari Farhad |
1977 - 1979 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Breton L. Mattes |
1977 |
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering |
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Aaron Finerman |
1978 - 1989 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Chun-Sing George Lee |
1979 - 1985 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Nourani Farshid |
1979 - 1980 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Peter A. Blakey |
1980 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Edward John Delp III |
1980 - 1984 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Janice M. Jenkins |
1980 - 2002 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
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Uwe F. Pleban |
1980 - 1984 |
Assistant Professor of Computer and Communication Science Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences |
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Gideon Frieder |
1981 - 1989 |
Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Chair of Computer and Communication Sciences |
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Yuri Gurevich |
1982 - 2000 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Gregory L. Hansell |
1982 - 1984 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Ramesh C. Jain |
1982 - 1994 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Satish R. Thatte |
1982 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Jerome Ross Breitenbac |
1983 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Marian L. Majewski |
1983 - 1985 | Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Yung-Chia Lee |
1984 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Doreen A. Weinberger |
1984 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Linda Pisti B. Katehi |
1984 - 2003 | Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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John L. Volakis |
1984 - 2003 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Doreen A. Weinberger |
1984 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Chaitanya Baru |
1985 - 1992 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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April S. Brown |
1985 - 1986 | Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Richard B. Brown |
1985 - 2004 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Arthur F. Thurnau Professor |
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Niraj Kumar Jha |
1985 - 1987 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Umesh K. Mishra |
1985 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Lynn A. Conway |
1985 - 1998 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Steven L. Lytinen |
1986 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Brian G. Schunck |
1986 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Michael W. Walker |
1986 - 1992 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Dimitris Pavlidis |
1986 - 2004 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Andrew L. Robinson |
1986 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Glen A. B. Feak |
1987 - 1991 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Deepack Sherlekar |
1987 - 1991 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Santosh G. Abraham |
1987 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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William P. Birmingham |
1988 - 2003 |
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor of Music Associate Professor of Information |
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Timothy J. Drummond |
1988 - 1990 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Todd B. Knoblock |
1988 - 1992 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Yasuo Kuga |
1988 - 1991 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Gerard A. Mourou |
1988 - 2004 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Edward S. Davidson |
1988 - 2000 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Timothy J. Drummond |
1988 - 1990 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Cordelia V. Hall |
1988 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Gabriel Michael Rebeiz |
1988 - 2004 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Pramod P. Khargonekar |
1989 - 2002 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Arthur F Thurnau Professor Claude Shannon Professor of Engineering Science |
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Stuart Sechrest |
1989 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Peter M. Banks |
1990 - 1997 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Dean of Engineering |
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Martin D. Giles |
1990 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Elke A. Rundensteiner |
1992 - 1998 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Carlos H. Mastrangelo |
1993 - 2002 |
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
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Daniel E. Koditscheck |
1993 - 2004 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Sang Wook Lee |
1994 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Nandit R. Soparkar |
1994 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Kimberly M. Wasserman |
1995 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Clark T. Nguyen |
1995 - 2006 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Stephen W. Director |
1996 - 2005 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean of Engineering |
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Steven K. Reinhardt |
1997 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Christopher R. Monroe |
2000 - 2007 |
Associate Professor of Physics Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Satyanarayana Lokam |
2001 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Lee Markosian |
2003 - 2007 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Ranjit Gharpurey |
2003 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Serap Savari |
2004 - 2007 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Andrew M. Ladd |
2006 - 2007 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Domitilla Del Vecchio |
2006 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |