April 16, 2003

Trew Named Lancaster Distinguished Professor

Dr. Trew (Photo: courtesy of VPI)

Dr. Robert J. Trew has been named the Alton and Mildred Lancaster Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, effective April 1, 2003. He has served as head of electrical and computer engineering at NC State since January 1, 2003.

The Alton and Mildred Lancaster Distinguished Professorship has been established to provide a professorship in the College of Engineering at NC State. The late Alton Lancaster established the professorship in appreciation for a $100 loan he received to help him graduate from NC State in electrical engineering in 1933.

Trew is a member and fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and serves on the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Administration Committee (ADCOM), where he is vice-president for 2003. He was editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques from 1995 to 1997 and was inaugural co-editor of the IEEE Microwave Magazine from 1999 to 2002. He is also a member of the editorial board of IEEE Proceedings. From 1997 to 2001 Trew was director of basic research for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with management oversight of the $1.3 billion annual basic research budget of the DOD services and agencies. He was also vice-chair of the U.S. Government Interagency Committee that planned and implemented the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI).

Trew is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Materials Research Society, the Electromagnetics Academy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. He received the 2001 IEEE-USA Harry Diamond Memorial Award and the 1998 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society Distinguished Educator Award. He has produced more than 140 publications, 14 book chapters and has given 300 technical presentations. He has six patents.

Trew received his bachelor’s from Kettering University in 1968, his master’s from the University of Michigan in 1969 and his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1975, all in electrical engineering. Previously he was a faculty member in the College of Engineering at NC State from 1976 to 1993.

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