George Mason University engineering professor Harry Van Trees has received one of engineering’s highest honors––being elected to the National Academy of Engineering. His influential work in “detection, estimation, and modulation theory and leadership in defense communications systems” prompted the honor, according to the independent, nonprofit academy.
Van Trees also won the IEEE Kilby Gold Medal for Signal Processing, named after the Nobel Prize winner who invented the transistor. “Being elected to the National Academy of Engineering and receiving the 2015 IEEE Kilby Gold Medal represent the culmination of my professional career,” Van Trees said. “Both citations refer to my contributions to detection, estimation, and modulation theory, which were based on my books first published in 1968. The first volume had 30 printings and was used to educate several generations of engineers. Read More