2001
IEEE ELECTROMAGNETICS AWARD |
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The IEEE Electromagnetics Award was established in 1996, and is presented to an individual for outstanding contributions to electromagnetics in the areas of theory, application or education. The Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and a cash prize. This year’s recipient is Professor Fawwaz T. Ulaby, whose citation reads "For contributions to microwave remote sensing and technology, its geoscientific applications, and related education." |
Professor Ulaby joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in 1968. In 1984, after serving as a distinguished professor and Director of the Remote Sensing Lab, he left Kansas to join the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. There, he has been Director of the Radiation Laboratory and Director of the NASA Center for Space Terahertz Technology. He has supervised over a hundred M.S. and Ph.D. students and is currently the Williams Professor of Engineering and Vice President for Research of the University. Professor Ulaby's research applies theoretical modeling, experimental verification, and numerical simulation to increase understanding of the nature of microwave emission and scattering by terrain. His integrated approach led to the development of a number of radar measurement techniques and created the knowledge base underlying many of today’s radar and radiometric geoscientific applications and retrieval algorithms. A prolific researcher, Professor Ulaby’s work has been chronicled in some 650 scientific papers, symposia proceedings, encyclopedia articles, book chapters, and technical reports. He has authored or co-authored numerous volumes, including Microwave Remote Sensing, Radar Scattering Statistics of Terrain, and Radar Polarimetry. More recently, he developed a widely used undergraduate textbook on Applied Electromagnetics. Professor Ulaby’s extensive service to the IEEE includes being president of the IEEE Geoscience Electronics Society, which he renamed with its current name. He also upgraded the Society’s Transactions and pioneered the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposia. He served the IEEE-AP Transactions as an associate editor, and the MIT Society as chair of its Millimeter-Wave Technical Committee. More recently, he has served in numerous key roles at the Institute, including his current position as Editor-in-Chief of the PROCEEDINGS of the IEEE. Professor Ulaby is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His numerous awards include the Eta Kappa Nu Award, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Distinguished Achievement Award, the IEEE Centennial Medal, The American Society of Photogrammetry’s Presidential Citation for Meritorious Service, the Kuwait Prize in applied science, NASA’s Group Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award and Regents Medal of the University of Michigan. |
Fawwaz Ulaby
was born on 4
February 1943, in Damascus, Syria, and grew up in Beirut, Lebanon.
After receiving a B.S. degree in Physics from the American University of Beirut
in 1964, he completed a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Texas.