Engineer gets award for contributions to field

Alan C. Bovik, an electrical engineering professor, has received the Signal Processing Society Education Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This award honors educators who have made pioneering and significant contributions to signal processing education. Applicants were judged on their technical achievements, authorship of scholarly books and texts, course materials, and innovation, inspiration and creativity exemplified in teaching and curricula development. Bovik won this award through his series of image processing books and online lectures, making him the first person to receive three of the IEEE group’s four major awards for his service, achievements and teaching.