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Latest News J. David Irwin has received the 2008 Lifetime Contribution to Factory Automation Award Dr. J. David Irwin, Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, USA, has received the 2008 Lifetime Contribution to Factory Automation Award. The Award, founded and sponsored by the IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation, is presented to individuals in grateful recognition of their lifetime contribution to the factory and industrial automation field; for meritorious technical contribution and technical leadership. The Award presentation ceremony took place at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and factory Automation in Hamburg, on September 17, 2008.
Prof. J. David Irwin and Prof. Kouhei Ohnishi, President, IEEE IES, pose to the traditional photo after the presentation ceremony
Dr. Irwin has served the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society as a member of the Education Committee and as Education Editor of Computer. He has served as Chairman of the Southeastern Association of Electrical Engineering Department Heads and the National Association of Electrical Engineering Department Heads and is past president of both the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the IEEE Education Society. He is a life member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society AdCom and has served as a member of the Oceanic Engineering Society AdCom. He served for two years as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Dr. Irwin served on the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education and was president of the organization in 1983/84. He has served as an IEEE Adhoc Visitor for ABET Accreditation teams and as a member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board. He has been a member of numerous IEEE committees including the Lamme Medal Award Committee, Fellow Committee, the Nominations and Appointments Committee and the Admission and Advancement Committee, also as a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Press. Dr. Irwin was a member of the Secretary of the Army's Advisory Panel for ROTC Affairs, Nominations Chairman for the National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association, and a member of the IEEE Education Society's McGraw Hill/Jacob Millman Award Committee. Currently he is chair of the IEEE Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Award Committee and a member of the Board of Governors and President of Eta Kappa Nu, the ECE Honor Society. Dr. Irwin is author and co-author of numerous publications, papers, patent applications and presentations including sixteen textbooks that span a wide spectrum of engineering subjects, and is Editor-in-Chief of a large handbook published by the CRC Press. Dr. Irwin is a Fellow of the IEEE and received an IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. Among his numerous awards are the Bliss Medal from the Society of American Military Engineers, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society's Anthony J. Hornfeck Outstanding Service Award and a Meritorious Service Citation from the IEEE Educational Activities Board. In 1992 he was named a Distinguished Auburn Engineer; was made a Fellow of the ASEE in 2002, and an Honorary Professor, Institute for Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China in 2004. Dr. Irwin received the B.E.E. degree from Auburn University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a member of the following honor societies: Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Omicron Delta Kappa.
Richard Zurawski
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Prof. J.
David Irwin, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, is Earle C. Williams Eminent
Scholar and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn
University.