Mac Van Valkenburg

Mac Van Valkenburg

Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg (b. October 51921, Utah - d. Orem, Utah, March 19 1997) was an electrical engineer ("EE").

He graduated from the University of Utah in 1943 with a Bachelors degree in "EE", received a Masters degree in "EE" from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946, and a PhD in "EE" from Stanford University in 1952.

Van Valkenburg was a professor at the University of Illinois from 1955-1966, then joined Princeton University as professor and head of electrical engineering until 1974. He then returned to UIUC. Named to the W. W. Grainger Professorship endowed chair in 1982, and became Dean of the College of Engineering in 1984.

Van Valkenburg was author of seven textbooks and numerous scientific publications.

The IEEE Education Society offers an annual Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award. UIUC established the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award in 1990.

Awards:
* Member of the National Academy of Engineering
* The Lamme Medal, the highest honor of the American Society for Engineering Education
* The Westinghouse Award
* The IEEE Education Medal
* Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.

His Ph.D students include:
* Prof. VGK Murthi (Prof. and Dean at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
* Franklin Kuo ('58; Prof. at the University of Hawaii), who was instrumental in the development of the "Aloha protocol"
* Steven B. Sample ('65; President of University of Southern California).

External links

* [http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/ingenuity/1002/mac.html Article] from UIUC.
* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=641766 Article:] "In Memoriam-Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg (October 5, 1921-March 19, 1997)" by T.N. Trick, Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on [see also Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on] Volume 44, Issue 11, Nov. 1997 Page(s):1041 - 1044. (DOI: doi-inline|10.1109/TCSI.1997.641766|10.1109/TCSI.1997.641766)


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