Carleton Bayless

Carleton A. Bayless

Carleton Bayless

Death date

2003/03/25

President of IEEE

1990

Carleton A. Bayless, IEEE President, 1990, was employed by Bell Systems from 1940 until his retirement in 1981 with positions at Southern California Telephone, AT&T, Western Electric, and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph.

Biography

Bayless earned his B.S. in engineering physics from the University of California, Berkeley.  He studied communications systems engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and engineering economics at Stanford University, California, all in the USA.

He was employed by Bell Systems from 1940 until his retirement in 1981 with positions at Southern California Telephone, AT&T, Western Electric, and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph.

He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and served as Institute president in 1990.