Robert Elliott

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Robert Elliott has been a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA since 1957. He holds bachelor’s degrees in English literature and in electrical engineering from Columbia University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Elliott’s prior experience includes periods at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins and the Hughes Research Laboratories, where he headed the antenna research activities. Elliott has also been on the faculty of the University of Illinois and was a Founder of Rantec Corporation. He has recently completed a two-year stint as a distinguished lecturer for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Testimony to his exceptional teaching abilities is perhaps best found in the achievements of his students: 12 Ph.D. candidates with six now full professors, two department chairs, one dean and one president of a $100 million microwave engineering company. Elliott is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Distinction in Graduate Teaching.