Purdue Prof. Dimitrios Peroulis wins prestigious Rudolph Henning Distinguished Mentoring Award from IEEE
Dimitrios Peroulis, Senior Vice President for Purdue University Online and Reilly Professor at Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is being honored with the 2024 Rudolph Henning Distinguished Mentoring Award. This esteemed recognition celebrates Peroulis's exceptional commitment to guiding students and mentoring young engineers in the fields of RF/Microwave and Wireless Engineering.
The Rudolph Henning Distinguished Mentoring Award is presented to recognize an individual who has performed exemplary service encouraging students and/or mentoring young engineers to advance careers in the areas of RF/Microwave and/or Wireless Engineering. The selected person will be a current or past member of IEEE who has had a strong impact on influencing students, young engineers, or young faculty members to further their professional careers in the areas of RF/Microwave and/or Wireless Engineering. Factors considered are leadership, innovation, dedication, distinguished service, and breadth of participation. The award was presented at the 2024 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), held April 15-16 in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
From 2019-2023, Peroulis served as the Michael and Katherine Birck Head of ECE and special adviser to the Dean of Engineering on online learning. He is an IEEE and IET Fellow and has co-authored over 450 journal and conference papers. Throughout his career, Peroulis has mentored more than 40 graduate students who have won over 23 research and design competition awards as well as 13 student paper awards. Peroulis has received 11 teaching awards including the 2010 HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2010 Charles B. Murphy award, which is Purdue University's highest undergraduate teaching honor.