=============== A. Fettweis =============== - Alfred - geboren 27 november 1926 te Eupen, Belgie - 1963 - gewoon hoogleraar - theoretische elektrotechniek - Netwerktheorie. -- Intreerede Eindhoven 10 april 1964 - tot 1967 - 1967-1992: Lehrstuhl fur Nachrichtentechnik, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum - eredoctoraat Universität Paderborn 14 juli 2011 = = = Brief Bio: Alfred Fettweis, Emeritus Professor for communications engineering. Born 27 November 1926 in Eupen, Belgium. Education: Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium: 1946-1951 Student electrical engineering, 1951 Diploma: Ingénieur civil électricien, 1963 Docteur en sciences appliquées. 1954-56: Part-time graduate student, Columbia University and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, both New York, USA. Career: 1951-1963 International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) in Belgium (1951-1954 and 1956-1963) and USA (1954-1956). 1963-1967 Professor of theoretical electricity, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Since 1967 Professor for communications engineering, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; emeritus professor since 1992. 1994-1996 Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. Honorary doctorates: 1986 Linköping University, Sweden; 1988 Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium; 1988 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; 1995 Technical University Budapest, Hungary; 2004 Politechnika Poznanska, Poznan, Poland. Membership in Academies: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften (since 1975); Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg/Vienna (since 1991), Academia Europaea, London (since 1992); acatech - Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (1997 Konvent, 2002 acatech, 2008 DATW). Awards: Belgium: Prix ‘Acta Technica Belgica‘ 1962-63; Prix 1980 de la Fondation Montefiore, Liège. Germany: VDE-Ehrenring 1984; Karl-Küpfmüller-Preis der Informationstechnischen Gsellschaft im VDE 1988; Basic Research Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation. USA: Cettnial Medal 1984, Third Millennium Medal 2000; Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award. IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (USA): Darlington Prize Paper Award 1980; Technical Achievement Award 1988; Golden Jubilee Award 1999; Van Valkenburg Award 2001; Vitold Belevitch Award 2003. England: Peter-Johns Prize, International Journal of Numerical Modelling 1993. Major research activities: Theory of Kirchhoff circuits, electric filters, theory of communications systems, digital signal processing, wave digital filters, multidimensional stability, robust numerical integration of partial differential equations, fundamentals at border communications/physics.