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William L. Everitt
Pages 81-86

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From page 81...
... His pioneering efforts were instrumental in expanding from a field dealing almost solely with electric power to one encompassing communication and electronics and all their extensions into the modern aspects of the field. Because of his leaclership in engineering education, this transformation, accomplished successfully at his own institutions, hastened the process of change throughout the nation.
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From page 82...
... The book Communication Engineering brought graduate students from all over the world to the Ohio State University and the University of Illinois. This text, first written in 1932, has gone through three editions, and there have been several foreign translations including an early pirated Japanese edition.
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From page 83...
... His leadership as an educator is evidenced by the fact that he has held nearly every major office in the key professional and engineering education societies. He has been president of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Engineers Council for Professional Development.
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... In 1984, at the centennial celebration of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, he was named one of the top ten electrical engineers of all time and one of an even more select group of top engineering educators.
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