Selected Awards and Honors of Edwin K. P. Chong
- Philips Industries Prize in Elements of Electronics, 1985
- E. V. Clark Prize for Electrical Engineering, 1985
- Sir William Goodman Scholarship, 1986
- Gerard Industries Clipsal Prize, 1986
- South Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry - Electrical Engineering Award, 1987
- South Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry - Electronic Engineering Award, 1987
- Texas Instruments Australia Certificate
of Achievement, 1987.
Honors Project "A Token Ring LAN Adaptor for a Speech Node"
selected one of best three in Australia in the 1987 Inaugural Australian
Technology Awards, 1987 (a description of the project appeared in
Electronics Today International, August, 1988, p. 69)
- Electricity Trust Prize in Electrical Power Engineering, 1987
- Philips Industries Prize in Electronics, 1987
- University of Adelaide Scholarship for Postgraduate Research, 1988
- R. W. Parsons Memorial Medal and
Prize (I.E.Aust.), 1988
- Academic Merit Fellowship (Princeton), 1988
- IBM Graduate Fellowship, 1990
- Best Paper Presentation in Session Award, 1990
American Control Conference, 1990
- Outstanding IEEE Branch
Counselor and Advisor Award, 1993
(ten awarded worldwide by IEEE; citation appeared in article
"Outstanding Branch Counselors" by S. L. DeFilippo,
IEEE Potentials, pp. 41--42, December 1993)
- Purdue Student Government Leadership Award:
Citation of Advisor Excellence,
awarded by the Purdue University
Student Government in honor of outstanding leadership and dedication
to Purdue University as Advisor of the Purdue IEEE Student Branch, 1993
(see photo)
- IEEE Section Recognition Award
(IEEE Central Indiana Section), 1994
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Award, 1995
- IEEE Senior Member, 1996
- Tarkington Hall Certificate of
Appreciation, 1996
-
Frederick
Emmons Terman Award, 1998 (awarded by the
American Society for Engineering Education
(ASEE)).
The Terman Award is bestowed annually upon an outstanding
electrical engineering educator below the age of 45
in the United States or Canada, in recognition of
the educator's contributions to the profession.
Certificate,
plaque,
and
medal
(viewed with
box).
(See list of awardees.)
-
Purdue University Faculty Scholar Award, 1999.
- Media exposure: Financial
Times, March 30, 2000;
United Press International (UPI)
(Stories of modern science: Better hands-off keep cell phone
talking - Edwin K.P. Chong), April 3, 2000;
RF Current (April 3 2000, Issue 208);
Le Monde, April 5, 2000
(French daily newspaper);
Microelectronics Technology
Alert, April 10, 2000;
WLFI-TV18 (Channel 18 News, 6pm and 11pm, April 23, 2000);
WASK (April 28, 2000);
Indianapolis Business Journal,
May 29-June 4, June 28-July 4, and July 10-16, 2000.
- IEEE Control Systems Society
Distinguished
Lecturer, 2001--2003.
- Elected to Full Member of Sigma Xi
(The Scientific Research Society), 2002.
- IEEE Communications Society Certificate
of Appreciattion, 2003.
- Elected to Fellow of the IEEE, 2004, "for contributions to
communication networks and discrete event systems."
Certificate and
pin.
Photos from award ceremony: With
IEEE President and CSS President
and
group.
Reports:
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2004
and
IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2004.
List
of active IEEE Control Systems Society Fellows.
- Elsevier Best Paper Award, 2004,
for the paper "A framework for
opportunistic scheduling in wireless networks,"
Computer Networks,
vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 451--474, March 2003 (with X. Liu and N. B.
Shroff).
-
Invited talk
presented at University College Cork, Ireland, July 7, 2004;
("Dynamic resource management," presented at the
3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed
Computing (ISPDC'04), in association with
HeteroPar'04). (Photo with John
Morrison, and other
photos.)
-
Professional
of the Year in Electrical Engineering, 2006, awarded by the
America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals.
Plaque.
-
Professional
of the Year in Education/Computer Engineering, 2007, awarded by the
Strathmore's Who's Who.
Plaque.
-
Professional
of the Year in Electrical Engineering, 2007, awarded by the
America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals.
Plaque.
-
George T. Abell Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Colorado
State University College of Engineering, 2008.
Plaque.
- Media exposure:
Denver Post, 9 April 2008;
CBS Channel 4
(Denver), 11 April 2008 [direct link];
Defense News, 14 April 2008;
Coloradoan, 16 April
2008;
Defense Technology International,
May 2008, p. 44;
National
Defense Magazine,
June 2008.
C4ISR
Journal: The Magazine of Net-Centric Warefare,
June 9, 2008.
- Elected member of the Board of Governors of the
IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006-2008.
Certificate.
- This next award I received during Engineering
Days 2009, College of Engineering, Colorado State University (April
17, 2009). I have worked hard and endured for 18 years in my career
as a professor so far to receive this recognition. Take a look for
yourself at the inscription on the prize.
Professor Edwin K. P. Chong,
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April 21, 2009.