William Ratcliffe
former IEEE 3 area exit
A great member of life, 80; June 20 died
Ratcliffe was the director of 2008-2009 IEEE 3 area (Southeast US).
active IEEE volunteerHe led efforts to change the IEEE Regional Activities Council to IEEE activities and geographical activities blackboard.
It also helped develop and release IEEE movement ((mobile Awareness using volunteer participation). Three vehicles in IEEE-Alusa The initiative is provided with our societies. Communications The capabilities in widespread areas Interruption because of Natural disasters.
Ratcliffe started his career in 1965 as an electrical engineer in Indiana public serviceAnd Electrical benefit Its headquarters in Indianapolis. There he helped design the largest part Energy systems And the development of engineering programming. He left in 1985 to join the manufacturer GULFSTREAM AerospaceIn Savana, Georgia, where it was Engineering Director Until 1994.
He got a bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering from Bordeaux UniversityIn West Lafayette, Indy.
Lembit Salasoo
GEA great research world
Life Member, 68; August 17 died
Salasu was a 36 -year -old world in General Electric Research CenterIn niskayuna, New York
He got a Bachelor’s degree, one in Computer science In 1976 and the other in electrical engineering in 1978, both Sydney University.
Join New South Wales Electricity CommitteeAustralian benefit, as a file Energy engineer.
In 1982 he moved to the United States after accepting RNSSELAER Polytechnic InstituteIn New York. He obtained a master’s degree in engineering in 1983 and a doctorate in Electrical power Engineering in 1986.
After graduation, join Gese Research’s Super delivery magnet The group, as it initially focused on the cooled research by delivery MRI Magnet.
Later on the computer Country imaging Equipment, including twin The tube used in CT Scots.
He and his team developed a tool for high school analysis Electron Emission Heat transfer in Tubes. For their work, they received the 1998 Dushman Award from GE, which recognizes the company’s contributions.
In the early first decade of the twentieth century, Salasu turned his focus to develop technology Clean energy Transfer-i.e. electric hybrid BusesThe locomotives, and Nn Trucks. It was part of the research team that conducted a concept from the hybrid locomice in Union Station in Los Angeles As part of GE Ecomagination Initiative, clean energy Research and development program.
His research changed again in 2010 to development Financial systems For the Gee statistics laboratory. His work involves making Ge CapitalThe subsidiary of the company’s financial services, is compatible with a Simifially important financial institution. If SIFI fails, it can lead to a The financial crisisTherefore, you must abide by strict regulations. For his work, he won the 2015 Doshman Award.
From 2015 to 2020 developed forms of defect detection in the GE used in the metal Added manufacturing. In 2023 he led GE Climate Research Team In the development of technology that expects and reduce the formation of long -term Tsers CloudsKnown as ContrailsThe plane is produced Emissions. Under his leadership, the team won a grant from Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy.
Karl Kai Wumak
Computer engineer
Life colleague, 90; July 10 died
Womack spent his career on early computers in IBM in New York City. He obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering from University of SirkiosIn New York.
Thirsty Science fiction And the reader of imagination, according to it Obedient.
Thomas M. Koreahara
chair IEEE Standards Association Working groups
Life Member, 89; May 24 died
Koreahara was an active volunteer IEEE Standards Association. He was the head of the working group that developed IEEE 1512 A series of Standards For incidents management letters used by emergency Management centers. Also head IEEE 1609 The working group, which has developed standards for the next generation V2X (Hold to everything) Communications.
Member IEEE Vehicle Technology AssociationHe presided over it Smart Transportation Systems Committee From 2017 to 2022.
After graduation with a Bachelor’s degree in 1957 from StanfordJoin the United States Naval. By the time when the active service ended in 1969, he achieved Rank Lieutenant leader.
Then he worked as an engineer for the United States government and in the private industry before he became a consultant.
Koreahara and his family were sent to Japanese -American detention camps during World War II. after war End, they were resettled in St. Paul. He was life supporter The twinning chapter in the Japanese American Citizens LeagueA national organization calls for civil rights and seeks to preserve the heritage of Asian Americans. He was a member of The city’s Saint -Paul Committee, the city’s sisterWhich enhances the useful relationships between the citizens of the two Cities It encourages peace between the United States and Japan.
In honor of his parents, in 2010, he established Corihara Airl K. Roth n. Tanbara A box of American Japanese history in Minnesota Historical Association. the money It is used to document and preserve the history of the group, especially in Minnesota.
Robert A. Riley
The former IEEE Department Director of the Sixth
Big Member, 76; May 21 died
Riley served as director of 2015-2016 IEEE Division VI. He was a former head of IEEE Education Association And a member of many IEEE panels and committees.
Soldiers in the United States army In 1965 he worked as a doctor in Japan for five years. After returning to the United States in 1970 as a pioneer in Army reservesJoin in Massachusetts University In Ammest. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education In 1974, two years later he obtained a master’s degree in education from Springfield Collegein Massachusetts. He later returned to the University of Massachusetts, and in 1996 he obtained a doctorate. In education.
Riley started his career in 1972 as a teacher of physical education in St. Matthew School In the Indian Orchard, Massachusetts two years after, he left to teach social studies, mathematicsScience in the lady of the Holy Heart School in Springfield. He worked at school, which was closed in 2006, for a period of three years.
From 1979 to 1982, he was a coach at North Adams Government College (now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts), Training teachers.
In 1985 he joined Landoro Primary School As a computer teacher, he knew there until he retired in 2011.
In 1992 he founded and worked as director of K12 NetworkOnline network for teachers who preceded Internet. From 1995 to 2001 was a manager Ednet@UMASSOn the Internet Professional development Network at the University of Massachusetts College of Education.
Riley was a visiting scientist in the early first decade of the twentieth century in Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhere he searched on computer -based applications and cognitive learning theories.
He was a member of American Engineering Education Association He worked as President 2009-2010 Electricity and Computer engineering to divide. He was National Association for EducationLanesBorough three times.
Recite IEEE Awards Including 2010 IEEE Sayle Award for achievement in education from IEEE Education Association And 2006 Wilson Via National Award from IEEE activities and geographical activities.
Ron B. Chil
outer space engineer
A great member of life, 92; May 9 died
Schroer was a space engineer Martin Marietta (Now part of Lockheed MartinIn Denver for more than 30 years.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physical sciences from Wisconsin University At La Crosse in 1953, he recruited in the United States Air Force. After the actual service ended in 1957, he obtained a master’s degree in devices engineering from Michigan University in Detroit and Master of Business Administration from Colorado University In Denver.
During his career in Martin Marietta, he worked on Titan missile programthe NASA space shuttleAnd a number of Federal Aviation Administration Air traffic control Systems.
IEEE volunteer was active, and he was editor -in -chief IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems He served in the Council of Governors of the Aviation and Electronic Space Association.
