IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award | IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society

To recognize distinguished service to the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

Prize:

$2,000, Plaque, and travel allowance of up to $1,000 is granted on a need basis for the recipient to attend the awards ceremony.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

Presentation:

Awarded annually at the discretion of the I&M Society Awards Committee at the following year’s I2MTC awards ceremony.

Basis for Judging:

Recognizes an individual who has given outstanding service to the Instrumentation and Measurement Society and to the profession. The nomination must clearly indicate the achievements that define the excellence of the candidate and must reference/provide relevant documentation that is in/or not in/ the public domain. At least 2, but no more than 4, endorsements must be provided by individuals with close knowledge of a candidate’s activities that led to the achievements cited.

Eligibility:

Must be a member of IEEE and the Instrumentation and Measurement Society at the time of nomination and presentation. Voting members of the Society Standing Awards Committee are not eligible. Nominees must exhibit actions that reflect positively on and enhance the reputation of the I&M Society. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4. on Awards Limitations (https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/ieee-policies.pdf). Previous award winners are not eligible.

Nomination Details:

Nomination Deadline: August 1

Note Regarding Endorsements: In addition to the Nominator’s letter, at least one, but no more than three support letters may be submitted.

Nomination Form:

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Recipients

2020

Georg Brasseur

For distinguished service to the IEEE I&M Society for over 25 years, contributions to the society's leading position in worldwide measurements and sensing systems engineering.

2019

Mark Yeary

Biography

Mark Yeary received the B.S. (honors), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, in 1992, 1994 and 1999, respectively. Following his graduation in 1999, he continued his digital signal processing and practical instrumentation based research at Texas A&M and worked collaboratively with a variety of companies, including IBM, Raytheon, Cisco, Texas Instruments and Lockheed-Martin. Since fall 2002, he has been with the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, where he is now a full Professor. He was named the endowed Hudson-Torchmark Presidential Professor in 2011. In addition to his role as a faculty member, beginning in the fall of 2013, he was appointed as the inaugural Distinguished Faculty Fellow in OU’s Office of the Vice-President for Research. Yeary was a founding member of OU’s Advanced Radar Research Center’s (ARRC’s) design facility known as the Radar Innovations Laboratory (RIL), and has served as an ARRC rotating Associate Director.

His research, teaching and consulting interests are in the areas of digital signal processing (DSP) as applied to customized DSP systems and instrumentation, primarily in the area of radar, with an emphasis on hardware prototype development and practical measurements. He has written approximately 180 conference papers, conference abstracts and journal papers in these areas. Yeary also has served as a PI or Co-PI on grants from NASA, NSF-ATM, NSF-DUE, NSF-ECCS, DoD-EPSCoR, NOAA-CSTAR, NOAA-NSSL, Raytheon, AFOSR, DARPA, Tinker AFB and CGI Federal. Since arriving to OU in 2002, he has supervised and supported 42 undergraduate and graduate students in the completion of research towards their degrees. In addition, he has provided support for eight post-doctoral researchers and has served on 32 other graduate student committees.

Yeary has spent twelve summers (2002-2014) at Raytheon near Dallas, where he is a Senior Engineer. He has made a variety of technical contributions which include several fielded systems, invention disclosures and proprietary reports. This work includes phased array radar design, tracking algorithm design, SAR/ISAR algorithm design and detection studies. In the fall of 2012 and Spring of 2013, Yeary joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Lincoln Laboratory on sabbatical to make technical contributions and anechoic chamber measurements (at nearby Hanscom, AFB) related to one of the preliminary radar panels associated with the national Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) effort. In addition, a variety of hard-target detection studies were prepared for the MPAR panels.

Yeary is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) and member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Honor Societies. Yeary received the 2005 Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as given by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He has served on numerous national and international review panels, and several are noted here. He was a Session Chairman of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems. In 2001, he served on the steering committee of the U.S. Department on Energy’s 2001 Future Energy Challenge. He has served as a Session Chairman at the 2003 IEEE-IMTC and as a Technical Committee Member of the 2003 and 2004 IEEE-ICIP. He served as a Technical Committee Member for IMTC in 2006, 2007 and 2008; and I2MTC in 2013 and 2014. He served as a technical co-chair for this meeting in May of 2010 in Austin. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement and serves on the I&M Society’s Administrative Committee (AdCom). He also participates as this society’s Technical Committee chair for TC-26 Radar Cross Section. He is a member of the IEEE AES Radar Systems Panel (RSP) and chairs the RSP’s Civilian Radar Committee. Yeary was a member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, Waltham, MA. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2014 IEEE Radar Conference, Cincinnati, OH.

In tandem with technical contributions, Yeary is interested in training the next generation of students – principally through hands-on experiments and deep theoretical understandings. He has many years of experience as a teaching assistant, lecturer and faculty member. Since January of 1993, he has taught many students in various laboratories and lecture courses, culminating in approximately 20 years of instructional experience. He was awarded as a 1998 NSF/FIE New Faculty Fellow. By invitation, he was selected to participate in the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Foundations of Engineering Education Symposium in 2010. While at OU, he has taught Digital Signals & Filters, Digital Radar Systems, Adaptive Digital Signal & Array Processing and Electronics II. I&M AdCom (2017-2020); (2013-2016); Fellows Coordination Committee Chair|| I2MTC Board of Directors (2016-2019)|| VP Publications (2018-2019); Publications Committee Chair (2018-2019)|| VP Conferences (2016)|| Conference Committee Chair (2016)|| VP Publications (2014-2015)|| Publications Committee Chair (2014-2015)|| I&M Magazine Editorial Board (2014, 2015, 2016)

Affiliation(s)

University of Oklahoma

United States

For distinguished service to the I&M Society as TC Chair, VP Publications, VP Conferences, and Chair of the Fellows Coordination Committee. His leadership within and outside our society has been crucial to our success.

2018

George Xiao

For outstanding and valuable services to many aspects of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

2017

Dario Petri

Biography

Dario Petri received the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 to 1992 he was an assistant professor at the Department of “Electronics and Information Engineering” of the same University. In 1992 he joined the University of Perugia, Italy, as an associate professor. Then he has been elevated to full professorship of Measurement and Electronic Instrumentationin 1999. In 2002 he joined the Department of “Information Engineering and Computer Science” at the University of Trento, Italy, where he was the chair of the International Ph.D. School in “Information and Communication Technology” from 2004 to 2007 and the chair of Information Engineering study programs from 2007 to 2010. At present he is the head of the Department.

He has chaired the Italy Chapter of the IEEE I&M Society from 2006 to 2010. Currently he is the Vice Chair of the IEEE Italy Section. Also, he has been a Co-founder and General Chair of the Ph.D Schol “International Measurement University” (IMU) of the IEEE I&M Society from 2008.

Dr. Petri is an author of over two hundred papers published in international journals or in proceedings of peer reviewed international conferences.

Dario Petri is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on I&M and a Fellow member of the IEEE.

Areas of expertise Dario Petri as an Associate Editor are: Analog-digital conversion, Acquisition systems, Computer architecture and information, Design for testability, Digital signal processors, Digital signal processing, Digital-analog conversion, Embedded systems, Error analysis, FPGA, Measurement precision, Measurement theory, Measurement and estimation uncertainty, Sigma delta converters, Sigma delta modulators, Signal processing, Telecommunication measurements, Testing equipment, Time and frequency signal analysis.

TIM Associate Editor-in-Chief|| I&M AdCom (2015-2018, 2011-2014); VP Finance (2014-2018); Finance Committee Chair (2014-2018); Fellows Coordination Committee Chair (2016-2018)|| Graduate Fellowship Award Chair (2015-2016)

Affiliation(s)

University of Trento

Italy

For 12 years of outstanding service in several positions, including Chair of the Italy Chapter, Associate Editor of the Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Chair of the IMS Fellow Coordination Committee, IMS Vice President for Conferences and IMS Vice President for Finances.

2016

Serge Demidenko

For the outstanding enduring contributions to the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, the IEEE at large and the Profession.

2015

Max Cortner

Biography

J. Max Cortner earned a BSEE from Iowa State University and an MSEE from the University of Minnesota. After eighteen years as a Test Engineer in defense division of Sperry Corporation, Max moved to the Cardiac Rhythm Management division of Guidant, now the CRM Division of Boston Scientific. Boston Scientific CRM manufactures medical electronics including pacemakers and defibrillators. Max is currently a Senior Fellow Engineer in Test Engineering, a group responsible for automated electronic testing of components, subassemblies and final product in manufacturing. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, a Certified Project Management Professional, and a Senior Member of IEEE. As an active member of the IEEE Twin Cities Section since 1972, Max has held offices in the Computer Society including local chapter chair and area chair. He worked with a group of activists who organized and successfully ran a five-year series of multi-week technical symposia covering hot topics such as computer graphics and artificial intelligence. Max was among the founders of the Twin Cities Chapter of the Instrument and Measurement Society. He helped organize numerous local test conferences and served as General Chair for the IMTC 1998. In 1999, he served on the committee of the IEEE Sections Congress that was held in the Twin Cities. Max was Co-Chair of I2MTC held in Minneapolis in 2013. He now serves on the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administration Committee in the role of Education Committee Chair, I2MTC Board Chair, and Industrial Relations Subcommittee Chair.

Affiliation(s)

Boston Scientific Corporation

United States

For outstanding contributions to the Society as IMTC 1998 General Chair, I2MTC 2013 General Co-Chair, I2MTC Board of Directors Chair, Administrative Committee VP of Education, as well as his Society leadership over many years at the local section level.

2014

Alessandro Ferrero

Biography

Alessandro Ferrero (M’88–SM’96–F’99) was born in Milan, Italy, in 1954. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1978. In 1983, he joined the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Politecnico di Milano, as an Assistant Professor of electrical measurements. From 1987 to 1991, he was with the University of Catania, Italy, as an Associate Professor of measurements on electrical machines and systems. From 1991 to 1994, he was with the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Politecnico di Milano, as an Associate Professor of electrical measurements, where he has been a Full Professor since 1994.

His current research interests include uncertainty evaluation, the application of digital methods to electrical measurements and measurements on electric power systems under nonsinusoidal conditions.

Prof. Ferrero has chaired the Italian Association for Electrical and Electronic Measurements for the three-year term 2004–2007 and he has been the President of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurements Society for the 2008 – 2009 term. He is the recipient of the 2006 Joseph F. Keithley IEEE Field Award for Instrumentation and Measurement.
As an AE for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement he covers the areas of Digital Signal Processing and Measurement on Power Systems. IEEE I&M Society President 2008-2009; TIM Associate Editor|| Fellows Evaluation Chair (2017)|| Associate Editor-in-Chief, TIM (2017)|| I&M AdCom (2017)|| Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2012-2016)|| I&M Magazine Editorial Board (2014, 2015, 2016)|| VP Publications (2007)

Affiliation(s)

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

For eighteen years of outstanding leadership on the Society’s AdCom, including service on the IMS Fellow Review Committee, as Chair of the I2MTC Board, Vice President for Publications, President, Junior Past President, Senior Past President, and Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions for Instrumentation and Measurement.

2012

Frank Reyes

For tirelessly providing outstanding, extremely valuable and critical service to the I&M Society, in a sustained manner as I&M Administrative Committee Member-at-Large.

2011

Ruth A. Dyer

Biography

Ruth Dyer earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentucky, and her bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemistry are from Kansas State University. She joined K-State in 1983 as an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and was promoted to full professor in 1997. From 1998 up to her recent retirement, Dr. Dyer served in various administrative roles in the Office of the Provost. In her final, role she served as the senior vice provost for academic affairs.

She has served in a number of leadership roles in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), including Sr. Past President (2020-2021); Awards Chair (2020-2021), Jr. Past President (2018-2019), Nominations & Appointments Chair (2018-2019), President (2016-2017), Vice President for Membership, Vice President for Publications, Vice President for Finance, and Executive Vice President. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2011 she received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Distinguished Service Award. She served as the General Program Co-Chair for the 2010 I2MTC and as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2011 I2MTC. She also served for a number of years as a member of the I2MTC Board of Directors. She served three four-year terms — 1999-2002, 2003-2006, and 2008-2011— as an elected member of the IMS Administrative Committee.

Dr. Dyer also was one of seven individuals from across the United States to be named a Fellow of the Association of Women in Sciences in 2006. She was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow in 2003-2004 and served during that time at Ohio State University. In 2013, she was selected for induction into the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering Hall of Distinction, and she currently serves on the UK Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council.

Affiliation(s)

Kansas State University

United States

For outstanding service of thirteen consecutive years on the Society’s AdCom, including serving at various times as Vice President of Membership Development, Publications, and Finance, and for fifteen years in leadership roles in I2MTC.

2010

Robert C. Rassa

For many years of invaluable dedication to the Instrumentation and Measurement Society.