Former IEEE President Will Talk about the Engineer as Hero this Evening

Bruce E. Eisenstein, former president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), will discuss the engineer as hero 7:30 p.m. today in the Oechsle Hall auditorium.

Titled “The Hero with a Thousand Phases,”the talk is this year’s Judith A. Resnik Memorial Lecture. Eisenstein will participate in afternoon engineering classes before giving the talk, which will be presented to first-year engineering students.

Eisenstein has been a NASA/American Society of Electrical Engineers (ASEE) Fellow at Stanford University and the NASA Ames Research Center, and a Visiting Research Fellow in electrical engineering at Princeton University under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.In 1980, he was appointed professor and head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University and served in that capacity until 1995. He has been Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel since 1996.

Eisenstein has published nearly 50 papers in the areas of digital signal processing, pattern recognition, deconvolution, and biomedical engineering. He was the 1976 recipient of the C. Holmes MacDonald Award of Eta Kappa Nu as the outstanding young electrical engineering educator.A registered professional engineer, he is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi honor societies, as well as ASEE. He was elected Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year for 2000 and served as IEEE president that year. His other IEEE positions have included chairman of the Philadelphia section, treasurer, vice president for technical activities, Board of Directors member, and president of the Education Society.

He earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from MIT, M.S. in electrical engineering from Drexel, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Pennsylvania.