2007 IEEE AWARDS

Dr. Alan V. Oppenheim

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal- sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc.

For visionary leadership and exceptional contributions to the field of digital signal processing

Alan V. Oppenheim was born in New York, New York on November 11, 1937. He received S.B. and S.M. degrees in 1961 and an Sc.D. degree in 1964, all in Electrical Engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University. 

In 1964, Dr. Oppenheim joined the faculty at MIT, where he is currently Ford Professor of Engineering and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow.  Since 1967 he has been affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and since 1977 with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications.  He is coauthor of the widely used textbooks Discrete-Time Signal Processing and Signals and Systems.  He is also editor of several advanced books on signal processing.

Dr. Oppenheim is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu.  He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sackler Fellow.  He has also received a number of awards for outstanding research and teaching, including the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Centennial Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Society Award, the Technical Achievement Award and the Senior Award of the IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.  He has also received a number of awards at MIT for excellence in teaching, including the Bose Award and the Everett Moore Baker Award.

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2006 IEEE AWARDS

ELI BROOKNER (F’IEEE) 

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications - sponsored by Raytheon Company

For pioneering contributions to phased array radar system designs, to radar signal processing designs, and to continuing education programs for radar engineers

Dr. Brookner received a BEE from the City College of the City of New York and his Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.  Since 1962 Dr. Brookner has been at Raytheon where he has made major contribution to radar and phased array radar systems.  In addition, he has made significant contributions to design, coding and channel-characterization of microwave and laser communication systems.

Dr. Brookner is known for his dynamic, clear and humorous lectures on radar systems he has given in 22 countries to over 9,000 attendees.  He is the author of four books and three book chapters on radar technology.  He was co-author of a paper that received the 1966 Journal of the Franklin Institute Premium Award. Dr. Brookner has been an invited banquet and keynote speaker at numerous conferences.

Dr Brookner along with his co-authors receives the Antennas and Propagation Society Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award in 1999.  He was awarded the Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society 2003 Warren D. White Award For Excellence in Radar Engineering “for significant advances in development and education of phased array radars.” In 2000, Dr. Brookner received the IEEE Education Activities Board Meritorious Award.  He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for both the Antennas and Propagation Society and the Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society.

Dr. Brookner is a Fellow of the IEEE, the AIAA and the Military Sensing Symposia. He is a member of both Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies.

The IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal is sponsored by the Raytheon Corporation and named in honor of Dennis J. Picard whose lifetime of work at the Raytheon Corporation helped make them a leader in tactical missile systems. Dr. Brookner will receive the award consisting of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate and honorarium at the 2006 IEEE Honors Ceremony in June at the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The nomination form for the 2007 Dennis J. Picard Medal can be found on the IEEE web site at Awards when you click on the About Us tab.  Nominations are due 1 July 2006.

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2005 IEEE AWARDS

Dean Kamen

IEEE Honorary Membership - sponsored by IEEE

"For innovating numerous medical devices, thereby improving the quality of life for many, and for inspiring youth to heightened interest in engineering through imaginative competitions."

As an inventor and physicist, Dean Kamen has dedicated his life to developing technologies that help people lead better lives. As an inventor, he holds more than 200 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. While still a college undergraduate, he invented the first wearable infusion pump, which rapidly gained acceptance from such diverse medical specialties as chemotherapy, neonatology and endocrinology. In 1976 he founded his first medical device company, AutoSyringe, Inc., to manufacture and market the pumps. At age 30, he sold that company to Baxter International Corporation. By then, he had added a number of other infusion devices, including the first insulin pump for diabetics. Following the sale of AutoSyringe, Inc., he founded DEKA Research & Development Corporation to develop internally generated inventions as well as to provide R&D for major corporate clients.

The array of products and technologies invented and developed by Mr. Kamen and the engineering team at DEKA is extremely broad.  Two notable breakthrough medical devices invented and developed by DEKA are the HomeChoice™ portable dialysis machine, marketed by Baxter Healthcare, and the Independence™ iBOT™ 3000 Mobility System, a sophisticated mobility aid developed for Johnson & Johnson. With his latest creation, the Segway™ Human Transporter (HT), Mr. Kamen aspired to improve upon the most basic form of transportation, walking, by allowing people to go farther, move more quickly, and carry more without separating them from their everyday walking environment.

Among Mr. Kamen's proudest accomplishments is founding FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989, an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use, and enjoy science and technology. Mr. Kamen remains the driving force behind FIRST, recruiting titans of American business, government, and education to invest time and resources into the initiative. The FIRST Robotics Competition, an annual event teaming professional engineers with high school students nationwide attracts hundreds of teams, breaks participation records every year and inspires students to pursue careers in science and technology.

Mr. Kamen has received numerous awards and accolades for his innovative inventions that have revolutionized healthcare technology including the National Medal of Technology in 2000; the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2002 for Invention and Innovation; and The New Freedom Award in 2003.