The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has
selected Vincent Poor to receive its 2005 James Mulligan Jr. Education
Medal in honor of his leadership in engineering education.
Poor, who is Princeton's George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in
Engineering, will receive the award at the IEEE annual honors ceremony
on June 18 in Chantilly, Va. IEEE cited Poor for his "inspired
teaching, a classic textbook, innovative curricular development and
research."
Poor's undergraduate course, "The Wireless Revolution," is one of the
most popular classes at Princeton and has become a model for connecting
political, economic and social dimensions to the technical subject of
wireless engineering. In 2002, Poor received the National Science
Foundation's Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars.
Poor, who earned a Ph.D. from Princeton in electrical engineering in
1977, also has made major research contributions in signal processing
and wireless communications. He has been a member of the Princeton
faculty since 1990.