Dr. Bruce Eisenstein '65 receiving the 2003 College
of Engineering
Medal for Outstanding Leadership
Dr. Bruce Eisenstein ‘65, Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, was invited to give the 2003 Judith A. Resnick Memorial
Lecture at Lafayette College on October 27. Entitled "The Hero with
1,000 Phases: The Engineer as a Hero," the lecture was attended by
250 people including the president and provost of Lafayette College. Eisenstein
participated in engineering classes before he gave his lecture, the main
audience for which was first-year engineering students.
The second American female astronaut, Judith Resnick was killed when the Challenger exploded in 1986. The Judith A. Resnick Memorial Lecture series was founded when a Lafayette alumnus endowed a lecture in memory of the astronaut after her untimely death. Other lecturers in this prestigious series have included leaders from business, government, and academe.
Eisenstein has published nearly fifty papers in the areas of digital signal processing, pattern recognition, deconvolution and biomedical engineering. A 1976 recipient of the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Award for Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Educators, Eisenstein was recently elected to serve on the honor society’s Board of Directors. A registered professional engineer, he is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and ASEE. For his many achievements and years of service, he was elected Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year in 2000, the same year he served as president of the IEEE. He’s held many leadership positions in the IEEE, including chairman of the Philadelphia Section and president of the Education Society.
Eisenstein is also working with Dr. Agami Reddy (civil) to research the security aspects of integrated building systems controlled via intra-nets or internets. Eisenstein also serves as a corporate consultant on patent, intellectual property and product liability issues and advises municipalities in selecting sites for cellular phone antennas. A member of the Gateway Coalition, he is very involved in engineering education initiatives including Drexel’s Engineering Entrepreneurial Program.
Before joining Drexel’s faculty, Eisenstein received a B.S. from MIT, an M.S. from Drexel and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, all in electrical engineering. Eisenstein was also a NASA/ASEE Fellow at Stanford University and a fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in addition to receiving an NSF Fellowship to be a Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University.
For more information on the lecture, please visit http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/4722-deptnews/.