Distinguished Engineering Alumnus
Award Recipient
Ross W. Lampe Jr. — 2010
This distinguished graduate earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in 1977 from North Carolina State University. After receiving his PhD in electrical engineering in 1983 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he began his career in the defense industry working with RCA’s Missile and Surface Radar Division, eventually serving as head of the technical effort to construct a large ground-based air defense system in Taiwan. He joined the cellular telephone industry in 1990 and advanced to become Ericsson’s Manager of RF Technology for North America. In 1998 he founded SMD Software, Inc., which has become a successful software business serving the commercial real estate industry.
Lampe and his wife, Ming-Mei, have continued the Lampe family's tradition of philanthropy to NC State, supporting the J. Harold Lampe Engineering Excellence Fund and creating, with Ross Lampe's father and brothers, the Ross W. Lampe Family Distinguished Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Their most recent gift established a distinguished professorship in the Joint NC State-UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering. Ross Lampe is also a member of the NC State Engineering Foundation Board of Directors.
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