Oct 1, 2002 12:00 PM

Theodore S. Rappaport, Ph.D., will receive the 2002 Frederick Emmons Terman Award of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education on Nov. 7 at the Frontiers in Education Conference in Boston.

Rappaport is a professor at the University of Texas and is chairman of Wireless Valley Communications, both in Austin. The Terman award, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, is given to “an outstanding young electrical engineering educator in recognition of the educator's contributions to the profession,” the citation reads.

Rappaport has authored, co-authored or co-edited 15 books in the wireless field, including Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, which is in use at more than 100 universities and many companies. He founded and directed a wireless research and educational group, the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Since moving to Austin this year, Rappaport has founded a new wireless program, the Wireless Networking and Communications Group, at the University of Texas.

“In what has only been a few months, we now have a critical mass of faculty and students, and it's just the beginning,” Rappaport said.

Rappaport is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, New York, and as a college student, he received a scholarship from the club.

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