Schlesinger Named IEEE Fellow
November 29, 2010
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head and former DSSC Director Ed Schlesinger has been named an IEEE fellow, a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation.
Schlesinger, the David Edward Schramm Professor of Engineering, was cited by IEEE for "contributions to electro-optic devices and heat-assisted magnetic recording." Since joining Carnegie Mellon in 1985, Schlesinger's research interests have included broad areas of technology in semiconductor and electro-optic materials, information storage and nanotechnology. He was founding co-director of the GM Collaborative Research Lab at CMU, served as associate department head from 1996 to 2004, head of the DSSC from 2004 to 2005, and took the helm as department head in 2005. In addition to overseeing tremendous growth in the department as an administrator, his excellence as an educator earned him the College of Engineering's Benjamin Richard Teare Award in 2001. His other honors include the Carnegie Science Center Scientist Award in 1998 and two R&D 100 awards for his work on nuclear detectors and electro-optic device technology. He holds 11 patents, has published more than 200 articles in research and academic journals, and is the current president of the ECE Department Heads Association (ECEDHA), the association of ECE department heads in the U.S. and Canada.
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