Michael Braasch is elevated to Fellow in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Michael Braasch, Thomas Professor of Engineering within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science (EECS), joins the 2023 class of Fellows within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

IEEE is the world’s largest technical skilled group and is devoted to advancing expertise for the good thing about humanity. Whereas there are 409,000 members in additional than 160 nations throughout the globe, lower than 0.1 p.c of the whole variety of voting members are elevated to Fellow annually. Braasch joins an elite group of choose IEEE members who trailblazed of their particular discipline of examine.

Turning into a Fellow requires {that a} member undergo a rigorous analysis course of. First, the nominee have to be evaluated by their residence society — one of many 39 societies inside IEEE — and Braasch is a member of the Aerospace and Digital Programs Society. After being evaluated on the first degree, profitable nominees are then evaluated on the second degree, which assesses nominees throughout everything of IEEE. 

“Being elevated implies that not solely has the nominee made important and sustained technical contributions of their particular discipline of examine, but in addition that the contributions have been deemed to be within the high tier of your entire group,” stated Braasch.

A lifelong Bobcat, Braasch has led a storied profession in navigation programs analysis. He has earned his BS, MS and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Ohio College and has been performing analysis with the Ohio College Avionics Engineering Middle since 1985. He’s internationally acknowledged for his work in characterizing GPS multipath and is among the originators of the built-in multipath-limiting antenna for GPS. He has given invited lectures in Australia, Canada, China, France, New Zealand, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.

“I had a beautiful alternative to carry out basic, ground-breaking analysis in GPS when the system was being initially developed and fielded. Multipath is a significant supply of error within the system and my work has helped to grasp it and cut back its affect,” stated Braasch. “Once I began this work over 30 years in the past, solely two satellite-based navigation programs existed: GPS and the Russian Glonass system. Now there are additionally satellite tv for pc programs fielded by Europe, China and India. All of them should take care of multipath error and my work has helped many researchers around the globe as they proceed to develop strategies to cut back this error supply.”

“Dr. Braasch’s analysis has been essential to the widespread use of GPS-based navigation in civil aviation making his elevation to the IEEE Fellow grade very effectively deserved. As a three-time Ohio College alumnus and a college member within the Russ Faculty of Engineering and Expertise, Dr. Braasch’s exemplary affect has introduced extraordinary visibility to each the Russ Faculty and Ohio College,” stated Maj Mirmirani, interim dean of the Russ Faculty of Engineering and Expertise. 

IEEE publishes practically one-third of the world’s technical literature within the areas {of electrical} engineering, electronics and pc science. It’s well known to be the premier technical group for electrical engineers. As a Fellow, Braasch joins an unique group together with the world’s high researchers in electrical engineering and pc science.

“It’s troublesome to convey in phrases how gratified I’m to be acknowledged by IEEE on this elevation to Fellow.  It’s a recognition of the significance of a profession’s value of analysis and improvement. It’s an honor not just for me but in addition for the numerous college students and colleagues who collaborated with me over the a long time, in addition to the Faculty of EECS, the Russ Faculty and Ohio College. With out the large help of those organizations and the proficient people who I labored with, this honor wouldn’t have been attainable,” stated Braasch.