J. David Irwin

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J. David Irwin
Born (1939-08-09) August 9, 1939 (age 84)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Alma mater Auburn University
University of Tennessee
Awards IEEE: Centennial Medal (1984); Undergraduate Teaching Award (1998); Third Millennium Medal (2000); Richard M. Emberson Award (2000);

ASEE ECE Distinguished Educator Award, 2001
Society of American Military Engineers: Bliss Medal(1985)
IEEE Educational Activities Board: Meritorious Service Citation (1991); Vice President's Recognition Award (2006)
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: Anthony J. Hornfeck Outstanding Service Award (1986); Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award (1991)
IEEE Education Society: Achievement Award (1991); Hill/Jacob Millman Award (1993), Meritorious Service Award (2005)
Auburn University Distinguished Auburn Engineer, 1992; Presidential Award for Excellence (2007)

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Institute for Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Science: Honorary Professor (2004)
Scientific career
Fields Electrical Networks, Industrial Electronics
Institutions Auburn University

J. David Irwin (born August 9, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American engineering educator and author of popular textbooks in electrical engineering and related areas. He is the Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar and former Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head at Auburn University. Irwin is one of the longest serving Department Heads of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the world, having been appointed to lead the (then Electrical Engineering) Department at Auburn in 1973. [1] He had also served as President of the ECE honor society Eta Kappa Nu; President of the US National Electrical Engineering Department Head Association; and President of two IEEE technical societies, on Industrial Electronics and on Education.

Biography

Irwin received a B.E.E. degree from Auburn University (1961), and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1962 and 1967, respectively. He joined Auburn University in 1969 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Currently he is the Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar and ECE Department Head at Auburn.

He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributing to industrial electronics, control instrumentation, and engineering education,” and Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Among his notable awards is the IEEE’s Richard M. Emberson Award (2000) “for a long and distinguished record of service to the IEEE in the educational, technical and publication areas.” [2]

Authorship

Irwin is widely known in the ECE and engineering education communities for his undergraduate university-level textbooks in electrical engineering and related areas. [3]

Of special significance are his books Electric Circuit Analysis and Introduction to Electrical Engineering, which are being used in hundreds of colleges of engineering worldwide. He has also written on multimedia computer communications, digital logic circuits, microcontrollers, industrial electronics, industrial vibration and control, and learning and career planning for undergraduate engineering students.

Table 1: Selected textbooks by Irwin
TitleCo-authorsPublisherYear
Basic Engineering Circuit AnalysisMark NelmsJohn Wiley and Sons2008
Essentials of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDavid V. Kerns, Jr.Prentice Hall2004
Embedded Microcontroller Interfacing for M-CORE SystemsG. Jack LipovskiAcademic Press2000
Introduction to Electrical EngineeringDavid V. Kerns, Jr.Prentice Hall1995
Digital Logic Circuit Analysis and DesignVictor P. Nelson, Troy H. NagelPrentice Hall1995

Leadership

During his long career, Irwin served in leadership positions in several major engineering and engineering education professional associations. Table 2 provides a list of key positions.

Table 2: Key leadership positions
TitleOrganizationYear
ChairNational Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association1980–1981
President IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 1980–1981
MemberIEEE Educational Activities Board1981,1989
President IEEE Education Society 1989–1990
President Eta Kappa Nu 2007–2008

Entrepreneurship

Irwin was associated with several start-up companies, including Aunigma Network Solutions. [4] Aunigma is an IT company based in Atlanta, Georgia US, addressing new generation Internet Protocol (IP) connections. Aunigma’s products are based on intellectual property (IP) created by the ECE Department at Auburn University.

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