Richard C. Jaeger - Biographical Sketch

Richard C. Jaeger was born in New York, New York, on September 2, 1944. He received the BS and ME degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1966 and the PhD degree in 1969, all from the University of Florida, Gainesville. From 1969 to 1979 he was with the IBM Corporation working on precision analog design, I2L, microprocessor architecture and low temperature MOS device and circuit behavior. He holds three patents and received two Invention Achievement Awards from the IBM Corporation.

In 1979 he joined Auburn University where he is Distinguished University Professor in Electrical Engineering and was Director of the Alabama Microelectronics Science and Technology Center until 2001.  In October of 2001, he became Interim Director of Auburn University's new Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC).
He will guide the establishment of the new Bachelor of Wireless Engineering degree, a joint program between the ECE and CSSE departments, as well as the development of WEREC research activities until a permanent director is appointed.

He has published over 200 technical papers and articles, the Addison Wesley book Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication, the McGraw-Hill text Microelectronic Circuit Design, and co-authored the McGraw-Hill text Computerized Circuit Design Using SPICE Programs with B. M. Wilamowski.  Microelectronic Circuit Design won the IEEE Education Society JacobMillman/McGraw-Hill Award for outstanding textbook development in 1998.

Dr. Jaeger was a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1984-1991, serving the last two years as Council President. He is past Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, a member of the Solid-State Circuits Society Adcom and Chairs the SSCCS Publications and Awards Committees.  He was Program Chairman for the 1993 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and Chairman of the 1990 VLSI Circuits Symposium. From 1980 to 1982 he served as founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MICRO, and subsequently received an Outstanding Contribution Award from the IEEE Computer Society for development of that magazine. He was selected as one of the IEEE Computer Society's "Golden Core" and received an IEEE Third Millenium Medal.

Dr. Jaeger was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1986 and was appointed to the Distinguished University Professorship by Auburn University in 1990. He received the Birdsong Merit Teaching Award from the College of Engineering in 1991. In 1993, he was chosen as the Outstanding EE Faculty Member by the undergraduate students. In 1995, he was selected as the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer. In his spare time, he is an avid amateur radio operator (K4IQJ), enjoying dx and contest operation. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, a Licensed Professional Engineer, and was first listed in Who's Who in America in 1990.

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