Charles K. Alexander is Dean and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Fenn College of Engineering at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also the Director of The Center for Research in Electronics and Aerospace Technology (CREATE), and is the Managing Director of the Wright Center for Sensor Systems (WCSSE). From 2002 until 2006, he was Dean of the Fenn College of Engineering. From 2004 until 2007, he was Director of Ohio ICE, a research center in instrumentation, controls, electronics, and sensors (a coalition of CSU, Case, the University of Akron, and a number of Ohio industries). From 1998 until 2002, he was Interim Director (2000 and 2001) of the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technologies and Stocker Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio University. From 1994-96 he was Dean of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Northridge. From 1989-94 he was Acting Dean of the College of Engineering at Temple University, and from 1986-89 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Temple. From 1980-86 he held the same positions at Tennessee Technological University. He was an Associate Professor and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Youngstown State University from 1972-80, where he was named Distinguished Professor in 1977 in recognition of "outstanding teaching and research." He was assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio University in 1971-72. He received the PhD (1971) and MSEE (1967) from Ohio University and the BSEE (1965) from Ohio Northern University.
Dr. Alexander has been a consultant to 23 companies and governmental organizations, including the Air Force and Navy and several law firms. He has received over $85 million in research and development funds for projects ranging from solar energy to software engineering. He has authored 40 publications, including a workbook and a videotape lecture series, and is co-author of Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, Problem Solving Made Almost Easy, and the fifth edition of the Standard Handbook of Electronic Engineering, with McGraw-Hill. He has made more than 500 paper, professional, and technical presentations.
Dr. Alexander is a Fellow of the IEEE and served as its President and CEO in 1997. In 1993 and 1994 he was IEEE Vice President, Professional Activities, and Chair of the United States Activities Board (USAB). In 1991-92 he was Region 2 Director, serving on the Regional Activities Board (RAB) and USAB. He has also been a member of the Educational Activities Board. He served as Chair of the USAB Member Activities Council and Vice Chair of the USAB Professional Activities Council for Engineers, and he chaired the RAB Student Activities Committee and the USAB Student Professional Awareness Committee. In 1998 he received the "Distinguished Engineering Education Achievement Award" from the Engineering Council, and in 1996 he received the "Distinguished Engineering Education Leadership Award" from the same group. When he became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1994, the citation read "for leadership in the field of engineering education and the professional development of engineering students." In 1984 he received the IEEE Centennial Medal, and in 1983 he received the IEEE/RAB Innovation Award, given to the IEEE member who best contributes to RAB's goals and objectives.
Matthew N. O. Sadiku, is presently a professor at Prairie View A & M University. Prior to joining Prairie View, he taught at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL and Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He has also worked for Lucent/Avaya and Boeing Satellite Systems.
Dr. Sadiku is the author of over 170 professional papers and almost 30 books including Elements of Electromagnetics (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2001), Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics (2nd ed., CRC Press,2000), Simulation of Local Area Networks (with
M. IIyas, CRC,1994), Metropolitan Area Networks (CRC Press, 1994), and Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (with C.K. Alexander, McGraw- Hill, 3rd ed., 2007). His books are used worldwide and some of them have been translated into Korean, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish. He was the recipient of the 2000 McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award for outstanding contributions in the field of electrical engineering. He was the IEEE Region 2 Student Activities Committee Chairman and is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Education. He received his Ph.D. from Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN.
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