UA Professor Receives IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.–Dr. Lloyd “Pete” Morley, professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama, is the recipient of the 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Richard M. Emberson Award.

Morley is being honored for his visionary leadership of the Institute’s technical and publication activities, as well as his contributions to the effectiveness of operations. The prize consists of a bronze medal, certificate, $5,000 and travel expenses to attend the award ceremony in Chantilly, Va. IEEE honors one recipient each year for this award, which recognizes distinguished service to the development, viability, advancement and pursuit of the technical objectives of IEEE.

Morley, an IEEE Fellow, has been a leader in the reorganization and growth of the IEEE during the past decade, serving as the volunteer chairman of two key operations, the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board and the IEEE Technical Activities Board. He spearheaded the evolution of the IEEE Publications Activities Board into the broader IEEE PSPB and fostered improved cooperation between the publication and technical groups, including the committee on electronic products. Morley also foresaw the need to modernize the IEEE definition of plagiarism and led efforts to establish a finite definition and guidelines for adjudicating different levels of plagiarism misconduct.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society with approximately 365,000 members in more than 150 countries. Through its members, IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The organization publishes 30 percent of the world’s literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields and has developed more than 900 active industry standards.

In 1837, The University of Alabama became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering has about 1,800 students and more than 95 faculty. All of the College’s undergraduate programs have been accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.