IEC Presents Fellow Award to Dr. Herwig Kogelnik.

Business Editors

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2002

The International Engineering Consortium recently presented the IEC Fellow Award to Dr. Herwig Kogelnik, current Adjunct Vice President of Photonics Systems Research at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J. The award was made in a ceremony at the IEC's annual Executive ComForum gathering, held this year in Boca Raton, Fla.

The IEC Fellow Award was established in 1994 to recognize individuals who have provided the information industry with a superior level of sustained and significant service. Areas of service considered for the award include education, technology, and industry leadership.

Dr. Kogelnik joined Bell Laboratories in 1961, when the facility was still owned by AT&T. (It has since been purchased by Lucent Technologies.) There he performed research into optics, electronics and communications, working on lasers, holography, optical guided-wave devices and integrated optics.

Dr. Kogelnik served as Head of the Coherent Optics Research Department from 1967 to 1976. In that year, he was made Director of Bell Labs' Electronics Research Laboratory, a post he held until 1983, when he became Director of the company's Photonics Research Laboratory. Dr. Kogelnik served in that capacity until 1997.

Herwig Kogelnik was born in Graz, Austria, and received the Dipl. Ing. and his Doctorate of Technology from the Technische Hochschule Wien in Vienna, Austria. He earned a Ph.D. from Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., in 1960.

Dr. Kogelnik is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical society of America. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 and to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1994, and he chaired the NAS Engineering Sciences section from 1999 to 2002.

Dr. Kogelnik has received numerous professional awards, including the 2001 IEEE Medal of Honor, and the 2001 Marconi International Fellowship Award in Telecommunications. He was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002 and serves as a trustee of the New York Museum of Holography.

In receiving the IEC Fellow Award, Dr. Kogelnik joins some 80 communications and engineering trailblazers, including Gordon Moore, former CEO of Intel; David Packard, founder of Hewlett-Packard; Robert Galvin, former Motorola CEO; Vinton Cerf, senior vice president of MCI; Jack S. Kilby, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer in the development of the integrated circuit; and John Chambers, President and CEO of Cisco Systems.

More information on the IEC Fellow Award may be obtained by calling the International Engineering Consortium at [phone].

The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) is a cooperative public-service organization dedicated to positive change in the information industry and university communities. For more than 50 years, IEC has provided educational opportunities for industry professionals, university professors and promising students. Executives from throughout the industry continue to build strong business and technical foundations for the future through knowledge gained from IEC Forums and publications.