Senior Member-at-Large
S. Hossein Mousavinezhad
Idaho State University

Dr. Mousavinezhad is an active member of IEEE and ASEE having chaired sessions in conferences. He is an ABET Program Evaluator (PEV) for Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. He is the Founding General Chair of the IEEE International Electro Information Technology Conferences (www.eit-conference.org), and past ASEE ECE Division Chair. He is IEEE Education Society Membership Development Chair and Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award Chair. He is Region 4 Educational Activities past Chair, and served as West Michigan Section Chair. He was the ECE Program Chair of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, June 16-19. Professor Mousavinezhad is recipient of Michigan State University's 2009 John D. Ryder Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award, received ASEE ECE Division's 2007 Meritorious Service Award, ASEE/NCS Distinguished Service Award, April 6, 2002, for significant and sustained leadership. In 1994 he received ASEE Zone II Outstanding Campus Representative Award. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE, has been a reviewer for IEEE Transactions including the Information Theory and Education. His teaching and research interests include digital signal processing (DSP) and Bioelectromagnetics. He is a panel review member for National Science Foundation, and has been a reviewer for engineering textbooks including "DSP First" by McClellan, Schafer, and Yoder, published by Prentice Hall, 1998 and Signal Processing First, Prentice Hall, 2003. He was co-editor of ECEDHA Newsletter and currently serves on awards committee. Hossein is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the international research journal Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering.

Professor Mousavinezhad organized the First IEEE Electro Information Technology (eIT) Conference, June 8-11, 2000, in Chicago. This international conference, sponsored by IEEE Region IV, is bringing together researchers in the ECE field covering such ECE research topics as Wavelet Transforms, Soft Computing, Power & Energy, Intelligent Control, Wireless Communications, and Fuzzy Logic. Keynote/Invited speakers included Drs. H. Adeli, M. Sloan, M. J. T. Smith, and L. Zadeh. He was part of the group promoting economic development in Michigan, MEDC and was responsible for bringing Innovation Forums to Western Michigan University, January 21, 1999. These forums were a series of meetings and seminars focused on university and industry collaboration initiated by the Michigan Governor. The Forums were sponsored by the Kellogg and Dow Foundations and were designed for finding strategies to create more Hi-Tech jobs in the State.

As part of his responsibilities as Professor and Chair of the ECE Department at Western Michigan University, he prepared ABET reports for the two programs offered by the Department (EE and CpE.) The graduate programs offered by the ECE Department grew and he was responsible for initiating the first MSEE program in 1987. A new ECE Ph.D. program was offered starting Fall 2002. In addition to administrative responsibilities, he has managed to teach undergraduate/graduate courses in his research area of Digital Signal Processing, he is co-PI for a DSP grant funded by NSF. He has received other NSF and government/industry grants in addition to equipment grants from Texas Instruments in support of his teaching/research activities in the DSP field.