Hall of Fame 2022 Induction Class

Anjan Bose was a Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of Electric Power Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, where he also served as the Dean of the College of Engineering & Architecture from 1998-2005. He served the U.S. Department of Energy as a Senior Advisor on the electric power grid in the Obama administration. He was a leading researcher on the operation and control of the electric power grid and worked in the industry as well as academia for five decades. Bose was named a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (US NAE), a Foreign Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineers. He served on the governing boards of the US NAE and the Washington State Academy of Sciences, of which he was President. He received the IEEE Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award and Third Millennium Medal.

Arend J Sandbulte retired as Chairman, President and CEO of Minnesota Power (now Allete) in 1996 after more than 31 years with the Company. He served on its Board of Directors for over 20 years, before and after retirement. A farm boy from Sioux Center in NW Iowa, he served in the Ordnance Corps of the United States Army from 1954-55, including one year served in France. Upon his return, he earned his BSEE degree
from ISU in 1959 with assistance from the GI Bill and his MBA from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1966. Sandbulte played a leadership role for many organizations, including SM Energy Board-Denver, Duluth-based St Luke’s Hospital and Foundation, Duluth United Way, Iowa State University Foundation, College of St Scholastica Board, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, North Central
Electric Association, and Chairman of the Minnesota Commission on Reform and Efficiency appointed by then Governor Arne Carlson. Sandbulte has received many awards, including the ISU Cardinal and Gold Award, Financial World’s CEO of the year and the St Scholastica Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

David C. Nicholas earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Iowa State. As a graduate student, he developed and patented a filler and synchronization mechanism for Huffman codes, which was later used in FAX machines. Nicholas’ filler and synchronization scheme for digital data is incorporated into the CCITT standard for Group 3 facsimile. His patent was assigned to the Iowa State University
Research Foundation and has been licensed to all but one of the major FAX makers. It remains the top income-producing technology from Iowa State. Nicholas joined the Collins Radio Company (now Collins Aerospace) in 1971, where he held engineering and management positions until his retirement in 2009. He worked on the design of telephone switching systems, mobile satellite communication systems, avionics
systems, and engineering continuing education programs. He holds 16 patents and was inducted into the Iowa Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 1992. The ISU David C. Nicholas Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering was established in 1997.

Edward M. Walsh is the founding president of the University of Limerick, the first new university established by the Republic of Ireland, a post from which he retired in 1998 after a 28-year term. Walsh was founding chairman of the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation; the National Technological Park; the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment; and the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland. He was also chairman of Shannon Development and of the Conference of Heads of Irish Universities. Walsh has played a key role over a 50-year period in helping transform Ireland into one of Europe’s most prosperous countries. He was elected Member of the New York Academy of Science and the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and he holds honorary doctorates from five universities.

After Iowa State, Firouz went on to compete his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California before joining NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he spent more than 36 years in various technical and senior executive positions. While best known for his leadership of the Mars exploration program, he has
contributed to some of the most iconic NASA robotic missions to various corners of the solar system. For his work, he has been recognized with multiple awards, among them NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal as well as NASA’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal. For his career contributions to
space science and exploration, in March 2016, Asteroid 1989 EL1 was renamed Asteroid “Naderi 5515.” He feels that his formative years at Iowa State were the initial rungs in the ladder that allowed him to reach for the stars.

Glynis A Fluhr Hinschberger was the first woman to graduate with a Master’s degree in electrical engineering at ISU. After receiving her degrees, she worked at Northern States Power in transmission and energy resource planning, power system information technology, and broadband communications. She was the coproject engineer of NSP’s first commercial wind installation. As a founding member and first CEO of the integrated communications provider, Seren Innovations, she led the team from start up to the successful commercial launch of two broadband markets in Minnesota and California. Glynis was selected as a Distinguished New Engineer and later a Fellow Life Member by the Society of Women Engineers and served as its President from 1989-1990. She received the Outstanding Young Alumna, Professional Progress in Engineering, and the Professional Achievement Citation from ISU’s College of Engineering.

Greg McCray has been a trailblazer in the field of communication technologies
since building his first computer in high school. McCray was recognized by several
academic honorary societies and earned a master’s degree in Engineering at
Purdue University as well as the Harvard University Executive Business program.
McCray launched his career at IBM, followed by AT&T/Bell Laboratories/
Lucent Technologies, where he held leadership positions and later served as
CEO for PipingHot Networks, Antenova, Aero Communications, Google Fiber,
FDH Infrastructure Services and holds public company board seats. His global
endeavors have delivered new technologies, patents and business models in digital
switching, fiber technology, antennas/RF components and artificial intelligence.
He was the first African American to graduate from ISU’s computer engineering
program and opens doors for a diverse range of people in the fields of engineering
and business. His zest for innovation in technology is matched by his love of
adventure while sailing on the Great Lakes and racing across the Atlantic Ocean.

James Daughton graduated from high school at Grand River, Iowa, in 1954. He attended Grinnell College for two years before transferring to Iowa State College. At ISU he earned a B.S. in 1959, an M.S. in 1961, and a Ph.D. in 1963, all in electrical engineering. Arthur Pohm was his major professor and remained an important advisor throughout Dr. Daughton’s career. Dr. Daughton worked at IBM for ten years in research and development of magnetic and semiconductor devices. In 1973 he joined Honeywell Solid State Electronics Center in Minneapolis. He became Vice President of Honeywell’s Solid State Development Center before leaving Honeywell to found Nonvolatile Electronics, Inc. (NVE) in1989. In 2000 he was president of NVE when the company went public, and Dr. Daughton then became NVE’s Chief Technical Officer. He retired from NVE in 2010. Dr. Daughton was a Fellow of IEEE and in 1994 was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Magnetics Society. He served on the Industrial Advisory Committee for the EE and Computer Science Departments at Iowa State. He was an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota.
He authored or co-authored over 40 U.S. patents and over 60 technical papers.

John Pauly was named the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Engineering at Stanford University and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He received an M.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Pauly’s research area is Magnetic Resonance Imaging, including developing dedicated MRI systems for children, who can be difficult to image with current MRI machines. Pauly has been awarded 75 U.S. patents in MRI, which are licensed and used by all of the major MRI system vendors. He authored over 200 refereed journal papers and was the principal research advisor for over 30 Ph.D. students. These students have gone on to jobs in acedemia and industry and founded two start-up companies. Pauly was named a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and received the Gold Medal from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Karen Pedersen has over 35 years in the Utility Industry as a planner and rate research engineer in three large utilities in Iowa and Massachusetts. She led teams of engineers on electric system projects to build transmission and distribution substations costing millions of dollars. Pedersen taught Power Systems Analysis online for the University of Alaska in Anchorage. She was an instructor for Wentworth Technology in Boston, teaching online continuing education courses (Electric Motor Controls and Power System Analysis). Pedersen was 2017 IEEE-USA President and 2019 Chair of the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee; she was the 2021 inaugural chair of the IEEE Conduct Review Committee and 1989-90 President of the Massachusetts Society of Professional Engineers in Boston. Pedersen is a National Society of Professional Engineers Fellow and former NSPE Vice President, and she served on the NSPE Educational Foundation Board. She received an M.B.A. with a concentration in Economics from Bentley College.

Lee (Li) Liu was born in 1933 in Hunan, China, in the turmoil of many years of war. When the Communist Party took control of China, his family migrated to Brazil in 1950 to begin a new life. In 1953, Liu arrived at Ames, Iowa, to attend Iowa State. To support himself, Lee worked numerous jobs around campus, and in 1957, he graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He joined Iowa Electric Light and Power Company as an engineer. Over the years, he rose in the management ranks, and in 1983, he was appointed the company’s Chairman, President and CEO. Liu expanded his company by acquisition, merger and diversified investments. In 1998, the new company, Alliant Energy, had tripled in size, providing energy services to Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Liu was instrumental in attracting U.S. and foreign
industrial investments to Iowa. Liu received the Anson Marston Medal in 1996, and in 1998, he received the Horatio Alger Award for his outstanding accomplishments while overcoming significant adversity through hard work, dedication and integrity.

Lyle D. Feisel is the founding dean of the Watson School of Engineering at SUNY Binghamton, where he created new programs in engineering and modified and integrated legacy programs to develop a progressive engineering school. Dean Feisel has been very active in professional societies, serving as president or chair of various national and international societies. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Iowa State Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering, New York State Engineer of the Year, the national NSPE Award, the IEEE Centennial and Millennium medals and various achievement awards. He was elected Fellow of IEEE, ASEE and NSPE. As an electrical engineer, Feisel has made significant contributions to laboratory teaching through the development of fundamental objectives for laboratories.

When Lynn J. Davis received his engineering degree, he had also been especially active on campus as the Editor of the Iowa Engineer, a member of the Student Union Board, an officer of Triangle fraternity and as a leader in multiple campus initiatives. After working initially for Honeywell, he joined ADC Telecommunications in 1973 and oversaw its growth from a 7M enterprise to a Fortune 500 organization. When he retired in 2000 as its President and Chief Operating Officer, he had hired and developed stellar technical talent. Ever passionate about engineers having good communication and leadership skills, he volunteered his time to ISU, created an endowed ISU leadership scholarship and mentored young talent who were interested in engineering or scientific careers. Ever passionate about engineers having good communication and leadership skills, he volunteered his time as an alum to ISU and to MBA students so they could better understand the power of a strong operations function. He created an endowed ISU leadership scholarship with his wife and mentored young talent who were interested in engineering or scientific careers.

After working a short time in industry, Robert Grover Brown established a lifelong career at ISU as a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His work in integrated navigation systems led to extensive research in applying Kalman Filtering to navigation problems. Brown co-authored several textbooks, with later editions of his Kalman Filtering textbook (1982) still widely used. He was a pioneer in VLF/Omega
navigation, and he made extensive contributions to GPS, particularly in the areas of integrity monitoring and satellite geodesy. Brown served as a navigation specialist for a number of companies and organizations throughout his career. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION), was an Associate Editor for NAVIGATION for decades and co-chaired an RTCA RAIM working group. Brown received the ION Weems and Burka Awards and was also an IEEE Fellow, receiving the IEEE AESS Kershner Award. He took his role as an educator seriously, with many of his Ph.D. students going on to prominent careers.

The Honorable Dr. Winslow L. Sargeant, Ph.D., was a pioneer in semiconductor systems design, business, and in government. He co-founded startup Aanetcom in 1997, which pioneered technology for data communication. Dr. Sargeant worked as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. He later became a venture capitalist for emerging technology companies. In 2009, Dr. Sargeant was nominated by President Obama to serve as the 6th Chief Counsel for Advocacy at the Small Business Administration. After receiving a recess appointment, he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2011. Dr. Sargeant left government to focus his attention on global entrepreneurship and became the Chair of the Board for the International Council for Small Business. He contributed his expertise to many company boards and was a founding board director of the First Women’s Bank. He credits ISU for opportunities to broaden his thinking, and as a man of faith, worked to show how science and engineering could positively affect our common humanity.