| George W. Swenson, Jr., P.E., Class of 1944
Dr. Swenson held faculty positions at Washington University,
the University of Alaska, and Michigan State University
before joining the University of Illinois in 1956. George
served as Director of the Vermilion River Observatory and
Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
before retiring from the Illinois faculty in 1988. He is
a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and, in 1984, was awarded the Distinguished Service
Citation by the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering.
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