August 16, 2001

Hauser Named Interim Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Hauser

Dr. John R. Hauser, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State University, has been named interim head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective August 1, 2001.  He replaces Dr. John J. Grainger, who has served as interim head of the department for the past year.

Hauser has been a faculty member at NC State since 1966.  Along with his research team Hauser is noted for the development of the world's first monolithic cascade solar cell, a more efficient and powerful way to harness solar energy.  For the past five years he has been director of the Center for Advanced Electronic Materials Processing at NC State, a research center for advanced microelectronic and nanoelectronic technologies.

He is a member and fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Physical Society and Sigma Xi.  He has received the Sigma Xi Outstanding Young Researcher Award (1968), the ASEE Western Electric Fund Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (1975), the Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Research Award from NC State (1978) and the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award in North Carolina (1978).  In 1982 he was named the first recipient of the R. J. Reynolds Industries Inc. Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension.

Hauser received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1960 from NC State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in 1962 and 1964, respectively, in electrical engineering from Duke University.

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