
Awards and Numbers
Faculty Honors 2009
USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Highlights:
- Over 30 Fellows of the IEEE.
- Three National Academy of Sciences Members (Sol Golomb, Andrew Viterbi, Robert Hellwarth)
- Fourteen members of the National Academy of Engineering (34 members in the Viterbi School)
- Eight recipients of the Okawa Research Grant (Alan Willner, Robert Scholtz, Urbashi Mitra, Antonio Ortega, Melvin Breuer, Viktor Prasanna, Giuseppe Caire, Shrikanth Narayanan)
- Four Shannon Awardees (Solomon Golomb, Irving Reed, Lloyd Welch, Andrew Viterbi)
- Over seventeen recipients of NSF Career Awards or equivalent (Young Investigator Award) and Presidential Faculty Fellows
- Four recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (8 for the Viterbi School)
- Twelve chaired Electrical Engineering professorships in the school are held by Electrical Engineering faculty
- Eight IEEE Gold Medals
- More than 50 Patents from faculty within the department
- One Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (Daniel Lidar)
- One David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Engineering and Science (Alan Willner)
Electrical Engineering is among the most prolific departments at USC:
- Total faculty size of approximately: 70
- Typical Enrollment approximately: 300 undergraduate students, 950 masters students, 350 Ph.D. students