About Steve E. Watkins

2013                              Inducted into the Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineering


EDUCATION

1989    Ph.D. –           The University of Texas at Austin
1985    MSEE  –         University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR)
1983    BSEE  –          University of Missouri – Rolla / Summa Cum Laude / Honors Scholar


WORK EXPERIENCE

2004 – Present            Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE),
                                          Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly UMR)
1989 – 2004                 Associate & Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, UMR
2020 – 2022                 Interim Chair, ECE, Missouri S&T
2005 – 2016                 Associate Chair of EE Undergraduate Studies, ECE, Missouri S&T
2016 – 2017                 Visiting Distinguished Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO
2005 Summer             Faculty-Member-in-Residence, Washington Internships for
                                          Students of Engineering (WISE) Program, Washington, DC
2004                                IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow / Legislative Staff U.S. Congress, Office of Congressman
                                          Dana Rohrabacher (CA 46th), Washington, DC
2002 – Present            Consultant, Savant LLC/Core Memory Circuits LLC
1989 – 1991                 Visiting Physicist, Phillips Laboratory, USAF, Kirtland AFB, NM
1985 – 1986                 Visiting Scholar, Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratories
                                          Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Tokyo, Japan


OTHER

• 1 Patent, 3 Book Chapters, 59 Archival Papers, & >100 Other Publications
• Coordinator for S&T Smart Composite Bridge Project
• IEEE (Senior Member), SPIE (Fellow and Senior Member), & ASEE
• Member – IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, & Sigma Xi
• IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Distinguished Service Award 2021
• IEEE RAB Achievement Award: Contributions to IEEE Student Ethics Competition 2004
• IEEE-USA Jim Watson Stud. Professional Awareness Achievement Award 2016
• ASEE ECE Division Service Award 2023 & ASEE Midwest Section Service Award 2012
• ASEE Zone III Chair (BoD) 2015-17 & ASEE Midwest Section Chair 2008-09
• IEEE Edu. Soc. VP 2019-21 and BOG 2015-18 & IEEE Intelligent Trans. Sys. Soc. BOG 2005-08
• IEEE Teaching Excellence Hub, Co-Chair 2021-24
• IEEE R5 ExCom 2006-15 & IEEE St. Louis Section Chair 2003
• IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu: President 2018, Director (BoD) 2004-07, & Historian 2022-Present
• IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu: Editor-in-Chief, The Bridge Magazine, 2013-17 & 2020-22
• Eta Kappa Nu: OYEE Award Finalist 1993 & A. B. Zerby Award Recipient 1983
• IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Chapter Advisor 1992-Present and Tau Beta Pi Chapter Advisor 2014-Present
• Toastmasters International: District 8 Governor 1994-95 & S&T Club Advisor 1991-Present
• Toastmasters International: 2003 Presidential Citation for Student Outreach
• Dent-Phelps R3 School Board: 5-term Member Starting 2001 & President 2008-12