Dr. Theodore S. Rappaport

William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas-Austin
 

Theodore S. Rappaport
Academia is one of the few places where you can change the world quickly. I consider myself fortunate to have experienced this as a student during the formation of Purdue’s NSF Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems in the mid-1980s, and am still using those lessons to build research programs and companies and to teach students.
 
Theodore S. Rappaport, who received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Purdue University, is the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas and is founding director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT’s Austin campus. In 1990, he founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) while on the faculty of Virginia Tech. He has over 100 U.S. or international patents issued or pending; has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous books in the wireless field; and founded Wireless Valley Communications, a leading software company for wireless network deployment and control.

Rappaport serves on the Technological Advisory Council for the FCC and is the Technical Program Chairman for the 2004 IEEE Communications Conference. He is series editor for the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies book series and serves on the editorial board of numerous journals. He is also a registered professional engineer in the states of Virginia and Texas, and is a Fellow and past member of the board of directors of the Radio Club of America.

Rappaport is a Fellow of the IEEE, was recipient of the 1999 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society, and received the Marconi Young Scientist Award in 1990. He also received an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992, the Sarnoff Citation from the Radio Club of America in 2000, and the James R. Evans Avant Garde Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2002. He received the Frederick Emmons Terman Outstanding Electrical Engineering Educator Award from the American Society of Engineering Education in 2002.
 
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“Academia is one of the few places where you can change the world quickly. I consider myself fortunate to have experienced this as a student during the formation of Purdue’s NSF Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems in the mid-1980s, and am still using those lessons to build research programs and companies and to teach students.”

 

 

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Theodore S. Rappaport, who received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Purdue University, is the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas and is founding director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT’s Austin campus. In 1990, he founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) while on the faculty of Virginia Tech. He has over 100 U.S. or international patents issued or pending; has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous books in the wireless field; and founded Wireless Valley Communications, a leading software company for wireless network deployment and control.

Rappaport serves on the Technological Advisory Council for the FCC and is the Technical Program Chairman for the 2004 IEEE Communications Conference. He is series editor for the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies book series and serves on the editorial board of numerous journals. He is also a registered professional engineer in the states of Virginia and Texas, and is a Fellow and past member of the board of directors of the Radio Club of America.

Rappaport is a Fellow of the IEEE, was recipient of the 1999 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society, and received the Marconi Young Scientist Award in 1990. He also received an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992, the Sarnoff Citation from the Radio Club of America in 2000, and the James R. Evans Avant Garde Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2002. He received the Frederick Emmons Terman Outstanding Electrical Engineering Educator Award from the American Society of Engineering Education in 2002.