Steve Watkins

Steve E. Watkins is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla.  He was the 2018 President of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN), a prior editor-in-chief for the IEEE-HKN The Bridge Magazine,  and is a faculty advisor for his campus chapter of HKN.  He is active in IEEE (Senior Member), SPIE (Fellow Member), and ASEE including service as an 2019-2022 IEEE Education Society Vice-President, the 2019-2020 ASEE ECE Division Chair, the 2015-2017 ASEE Zone III Chair, and the 2009 ASEE Midwest Section Chair.  He currently serves as the Co-Chair for the editorial board of the IEEE Teaching Excellence Hub.  He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the US Air Force Academy, an IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow, a visiting physicist at the Phillips Laboratory (USAF), and a visiting scholar at NTT in Japan.  His Ph.D. is from the University of Texas at Austin (1989).