Trew named AAAS Fellow

Dr. Robert J. Trew, Alton and Mildred Lancaster Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Trew was recognized for his distinguished contributions to the science and engineering of millimeter and microwave devices, and leadership in advancing research and education in communication and radar systems.

Trew will be presented with a certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin, representing science and engineering, respectively, on Feb. 19 during the 2011 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. AAAS will honor 503 of its members at the meeting.

A former department head of electrical and computer engineering at NC State, Trew has received the Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award, the IEEE-USA Harry Diamond Memorial Award, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Educator Award. He is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Proceedings, and is a past editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He was also the founding co-editor-in-chief of IEEE Microwave Magazine. Trew has twice been named an IEEE MTT Society Microwave Distinguished Lecturer. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 1991 and is a member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.

From 1997 to 2001 Trew served as director of research in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the US Department of Defense. He is currently on leave from NC State serving as director of the Electrical, Communications, and Cyber-Systems Division in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation.

Trew received his bachelor’s degree from Kettering University in 1968, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan in 1969 and 1975, respectively, all in electrical engineering.

Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science as well as Science Translational Medicine and Science Signaling. AAAS, which began awarding the distinction of Fellow in 1874, includes 262 affiliated societies and academies of science serving 10 million people.