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MACELWYN VAN VALKENBURG
Pages 304-309

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... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 304 3/23/10 3:42:42 PM
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... Soon the boys were scripting a radio program based on information from ham radio magazines and their own experiences. The program aired late Saturday night on radio station KSL in Salt Lake City.
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... Upon his retirement in 1988, Illinois Chancellor Thomas Everhart said, "The renaissance in engineering, which has seen an explosion of new endeavors in the past three years, has been due, in no small part, to the supportive atmosphere Dean Van Valkenburg has embodied and the encouragement he has given to new initiatives." Although Ernst Guillemin is rightfully called the father of modern circuit and system theory in engineering education, Mac's books made those concepts understandable to the masses worldwide. In an era of dc/ac analysis, the revolutionary time domain/frequency domain transform methodologies were little Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 306 3/23/10 3:42:43 PM
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... Mac received numerous honors and awards, including Fellow of IEEE, IEEE Education Medal, IEEE Centennial Medal, American Society of Electrical Engineers (ASEE) Lamme Medal, ASEE George Westinghouse Award, Guillemin Prize, and the Halliburton Award.
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... He served on endless policy and advisory committees and wrote numerous articles on engineering education, including a column in the ASEE Prism. Engineering students, educators, and publishers from all over the world sought his advice and counsel.
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