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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS Honor |
June 11, 2001
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Markus Zahn to the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professorship of Electrical Engineering. (Tom Perkins graduated from the MIT electrical engineering department. After attending Harvard Business School he worked at Sperry and HP. In 1972 he founded the highly successful venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.)
Mark Zahn received the BSEE and MSEE degrees in 1968, the Electrical Engineers degree in 1969, and the Sc.D. degree in 1970, all from the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT. From 1970-1980 he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He joined the MIT faculty in 1980 and is now Professor of Electrical Engineering working in the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems and in the MIT High Voltage Research Laboratory. He is also the Director of VI-A, our cooperative work/study program.
Mark is the author of ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY: A Problem Solving Approach (Wiley, 1979; Krieger, 1987; including translations in Spanish and Polish) and has co-developed a set of educational videotapes on Demonstrations of Electromagnetic Fields and Energy, now also viewable on the web site for MIT course 6.013.
Mark's fields of research include electro-optical field and charge mapping measurements; high-voltage charge transport and breakdown phenomena in dielectrics; flow electrification phenomena in electric power apparatus; development of capacitive and inductive sensors of dielectric, conduction, and magnetic properties of media as well as related physical properties; electrohydrodynamic and electrokinetic interactions with charged and polarizable fluids; ferrohydrodynamic interactions with magnetizable fluids; continuum electromechanics of electrofluidized and magnetically stabilized beds; magnetic diffusion phenomena and forces in MAGLEV systems; and magnetic field devices for micro and nanoelectromechanical system (MEMS/NEMS) applications.
Mark has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, including the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award in 1989 and the MIT Frank E. Perkins award for excellence in graduate student advising in 1999. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to the understanding of the effects of space charge and flow electrification on the conduction and breakdown properties of dielectrics.
Please join me in extending your congratulations to Mark.