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Edward Conrad Jordan
Pages 96-101

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From page 97...
... The following year he enrolled in the University of Alberta in the electrical engineering department and obtained a position as control operator in the university's radio broadcasting station, CKUA. He served in that position until 1935, supporting himself while he earned BSEE and MSEE degrees in 1934 and 1936.
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From page 98...
... As part of Everitt's mandate to develop the department into a leading teaching and research institution, Jordan founded the Raclio Direction Finding Research Laboratory. He later assumed leadership of the Antenna Research Laboratory, and he continued with a regular load of classroom teaching and thesis supervision until 1954, when he became head of the electrical engineering department.
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From page 99...
... Over the years, he served on advisory boards and panels of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale, Pennsylvania State University, University of California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Houston, Purdue University, and, of course, the National Academy of Engineering.
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From page 100...
... The state government of Illinois budgeted few resources for research and graduate study. At the same time, the nation demanded of its universities much greater emphasis on advanced technical education and research, mainly in response to the perceived imperatives of the cold war and the challenge posed by the Soviet Union's launching of the first artificial Earth satellites.
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... He was greatly admired and respected throughout radio and electronic engineering circles of the world. To the younger faculty members of his department, he was a father figure; to senior colleagues and fellow Rotarians, a friend and confidant and golfing partner.
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