Marvin White named Distinguished Alumnus
Marvin White was 
From 1961 to 1981, White worked at the Westinghouse Space and Defense Center, rising from associate to advisory engineer. Along with his colleagues, he designed advanced CMOS integrated circuits and developed signal processing techniques such as correlated double sampling for noise suppression in video, and sampled data systems, such as NASA imaging systems. He took a sabbatical from 1966 to 1968 to attend Ohio State as an instructor and pursue his doctorate in electrical engineering under Prof. Marlin Thurston.
From 1981 to 2010, he was the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University, where he was director of the Sherman Fairchild Center and the Nanoelectronics Laboratory. He supervised 34 doctoral students in advanced devices and circuits. During sabbaticals, he was a visiting research scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory (1987-88) and a program director at the National Science Foundation (1995-96) in Solid-State Microstructures.
White has published nearly 300 papers with students and colleagues and acquired 27 U.S. patents. He is an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to solid-state imagers and advances in silicon devices and technology. He has received numerous awards, including the 1997 IEEE Electron Devices Society’s J.J. Ebers Award, the 2000 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, the 2001 IEEE Aldert van der Ziel Award and the 2010 IEEE EDS Distinguished Service Award. He is currently an EDS distinguished national lecturer and vice president of awards.
