First-Hand:History of an ASEE Fellow - James R. Rowland

Biography for ASEE Academy of Fellows: James R. Rowland (2018)

James R. Rowland is a Life Fellow of ASEE (elected Fellow in 2017, approved as a Life Member in 2014, continuous ASEE membership since 1968).

His professional career spanned over 50 years as an electrical engineering professor at three universities. He retired and became Professor Emeritus in June 2017 after 32 years as a professor at the University of Kansas and had held previous faculty positions at Georgia Tech and Oklahoma State University. He had earned the PhD in electrical engineering at Purdue University in 1966.

A Life Fellow of the IEEE (elected Fellow in 1995), he had served as Education Society president, as Admissions and Advancement Committee chair, and as a member of three IEEE major boards on educational, technical, and regional activities. He had chaired the Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association in the late 1980s. He recently chaired the Education Society Fellows Evaluation Committee. He had received an IEEE Centennial medal and Education Society awards for achievement and meritorious service and was recognized among the Founders of the IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference begun in 1971.

Since 1985, he has served as an ABET program evaluator (PEV) with over 40 campus visits for IEEE and ASEE, including three international visits, and is a current member of the ASEE Accreditation Committee. He was the recipient of the 2015 ECE Division meritorious service award.