Martha Sloan
Martha Sloan, IEEE President, 1993, worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. She is currently an electrical and computer engineering professor at Michigan Technological University.
Biography
IEEE Life Fellow, Martha Sloan, received a B.S.E.E. with great distinction, an M.S.E.E., and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. After two years of working at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Palo Alto, California, she joined Michigan Technological University where she is now a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
She is the author of three textbooks and more than sixty papers. She is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and SWE and has received numerous awards, including the SWE Distinguished Engineering Educator Award, an IEEE Centennial Medal, the Richard E. Merwin Award, and the ASEE Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Educator Award.
Sloan was elevated to a IEEE Fellow in 1991 “For contributions to engineering education, leadership in the development of computer engineering education as a discipline, and leadership in extending engineering education to women.”
Sloan was IEEE president in 1993. She was the first woman to lead the Institute. She also served as President of the IEEE Computer Society in 1984.
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