郑钧

郑钧（1917年1月10日—2012年8月22日），男，江苏人，美籍华人物理学家，专攻电磁学领域。也是该领域教科书作者。1983年其著作《电磁场与波》已经被2000多本出版物引用，2016年全世界共有500多家图书馆有收藏其著作。

生平

1917年出生在江苏省，1938年毕业于上海国立交通大学电机系，毕业后五年在中央广播电台工作，1944年和1946年分别拿到哈佛大学硕士和博士学位。1946年在美国USCF剑桥研究实验室担任电子工程师，1948年担任雪城大学电机与计算机工程教授。2012年在美国逝世。

荣誉

1985年被国立交通大学授予荣誉博士学位。2017年其子美籍华人投资家Eugene A. Cheng设立设立郑钧奖学金基金。

David Keun Cheng (January 10, 1918 – August 22, 2012) was a Chinese-born Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was known for his work in the field of electromagnetics. His 1983 undergraduate textbook Field and Wave Electromagnetics has been cited in more than 4000 publications and in 2016 is in the collections of about 500 libraries around the world.

Early life and education

Cheng obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai in 1938, graduating at the head of his class. For the next five years, he worked as a research engineer with the Central Radio Corporation in China. He then went on to Harvard University, where he received his S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in 1944 and 1946 respectively. While at Harvard, he was a Charles Storrow Scholar and a Gordon McKay Scholar.

Career

Dr. Cheng was a project engineer at the U.S.A.F. Cambridge Research Laboratories for 1946–48. In 1948, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Syracuse University and was appointed a full professor in 1955. Dr. Cheng taught and did research at Syracuse University until his retirement as Centennial Professor Emeritus in 1984. During his years with Syracuse University, he held many positions, including the faculty chairmanship of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as that of the College of Engineering. He established the University's graduate center and served as its first academic chairman at Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, NY (1952–53), at IBM in Endicott, NY (1953–54) and at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY (1954–55). In recognition of his outstanding teaching and research, he was awarded the honor of Centennial Professor by Syracuse University in 1970, and he was the only professor in science and engineering so honored. In 1981, the University honored him again with the Chancellor's Citation for exceptional academic achievement.

Books, awards, and achievements

Cheng has published four books: Analysis of Linear Systems (1959, translated into Chinese; Indian Student Edition, 1988), Field and Wave Electromagnetics (1st. ed. 1983, translated into Chinese, 2nd ed. 1989), Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics (1993, translated into Spanish and Korean).

He has authored or co-authored over 200 journal articles as well as many reports. He has won several best paper awards, an Achievement Award of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, a Distinguished Service Award of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and an annual research award of the Society of Sigma Xi. He was a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). a Fellow and Chartered Engineer of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary).

In 1960–61 He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study and conduct research in London and Munich. He was selected by the National Academy of Sciences to be an Exchange Scientist to Hungary in 1972, to Yugoslavia in 1974, and to Poland and Romania in 1978. In 1975–76 he served as a Liaison Scientist at the London Branch of the Office of Naval Research. The IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society appointed him as the European Lecturer under the Distinguished Lecturer Program for the same period.

Cheng was a member of the IEEE Publications Board for 1968-70. He was the Consulting Editor of an Electrical Engineering Monograph Series for Intext Educational Publishers. From 1961 to 1978 he served as a Consulting Editor for Electrical Science books published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. He was a consultant for GE, IBM, TRW and Syracuse Research Corporation.