U of S Engineer wins prestigious Fellowship

Posted September 12, 2002


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Thursday, September 12, 2002 2002-09-09-ENG

U of S Engineer wins prestigious Fellowship

University of Saskatchewan Electrical Engineering professor David Dodds has
been named the 2001 Wighton Fellow. The Wighton Fellowship is a national
award recognizing excellence in the development and teaching of
undergraduate laboratory courses in Canadian engineering programs

Fellow faculty members nominated Dodds for the award which is presented by
the National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the
Sandford Fleming Foundation at the University of Waterloo. He will receive a
$3,000 stipend as part of the Fellowship.

Dodds, a professor at the U of S since 1969 is teaching the laboratory class
for fourth year students this fall. In this lab, students explore electronic
circuits, electrical machines and computer systems in a hands-on
environment. Students design, build and test their experiments under his
supervision. The U of S laboratory program is unique in that students spend
six hours a week in a unified lab, which combines material from several
lecture classes. "This is considerably more efficient than the traditional
laboratory for each course" said Dodds. "Graduates are highly effective in
the workplace since our laboratories are operated on the same model followed
by many private businesses,"

Professor Dodds received his training at the U of S. He completed a B.Eng.
in 1966 and his M.Sc. in 1968. He is a registered Consulting Engineer in
Saskatchewan and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers.

In addition to his teaching duties at the U of S, Dodds is a scientist at
Telecommunications Research Laboratories (TRLabs) in Saskatoon. He works
closely with local industries and regularly provides professional
development short-courses. Professor Dodds' research interests include
Internet access across telephone lines and fibre-optic technology.

* Tours of the laboratory are available at 10 a.m. on Sept. 13 in room 2C80
of the Engineering Building (57 Campus Drive).


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For more information, please contact:

David Dodds
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-5397
E-mail: dodds@engr.usask.ca