Stevens Pro Kevin Loo Puts the standards

That boy will be bigger to publish leading work on optical networks, telecommunications will have a long career in R&D, and students will have to teach about emerging Internet of Things.

Lu, senior member of IEEE Life, has also played an important role in IEEE’s Global Standards Development Program. He was honored last year IEEE Standard Board Specific Service Award “Superior IEEE SA Governance Leadership IEEE SA Standards as Chairman of Board Audit Committee and as Chairman of IEEE SA Industry Connection Committee.”

Now getting closer to retirement, Lu reflects its career, which has threaded engineering, teaching and volunteers together with grace, which has no sign of slowing down.

Switching from interest to electronics

Born in the city of Taipei, Lu was the youngest of four brothers. He says that he was influenced by his family and circumstances. His father, a non -technical administrative staff member Chumbhwa telecomThe country’s telephone company, kept a house filled with telecom newsletters. Lu says that his brother demonstrated the experiments of bold chemistry which end up with the eyebrows or small explosions. Kevin turned to mechanical projects, such as eventually created a scale model of the crane before embracing electronics.

“My parents encouraged their career in engineering because they felt it would provide a good life,” they say.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in control engineeringNational Chiao Tung University In 1979 in HSINCHU. They then participated Washington university In St. Louis, earning master and doctoral degrees in System Science and Mathematics in 1981 and 1984.

Kevin Lu (Center) showed the plaque that he has been awarded the 2024 IEEE Standards Board Distilated Service Award. He was the President of the IEEE Standards Association, James E. Mathews and IEEE Standards Association have been enraged by Yatin Trivedi, a member of the Board of Governors.Kevin Lu

A long career with Belcor

A chance meeting at the Campus Placement Office made a job interview with Bell Communications Research, which is known as Belcore (East part of Bell Labs, now Nokia Bell LabsHe was hired and worked in the company’s facility in flea, NJ

Time could not be better. In 1984, the American telecommunications industry was undergoing a large -scale structural change, with new institutions including Belkor with the division of AT&T. His job was “a member of technical staff”, in which he was very proud, he says, “Given” the Nobel Prize winner put the same title in Bell Labs. “

For the next 28 years, he contributed to projects that shaped the modern communication landscape. In 1990, he wrote seminal paper ”Broad-band fiber loop architecture system and cost analysis“Joe was published inIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsAdvocated it Passive optical network-A concept that is now central for global fiber purinogen.

The road from consideration to implementation was long, Lu says.

“It was not till 2009 Verizon Established a unit in my house, “He says, laughing.” Fiber is expensive, so companies first deployed wireless to make adequate revenue. ,

Bellcore eventually became Telquardia, which Ericsson Acquired in 2012Although Lu grew through the rank to become the chief scientist of Tales, he left and joined during Ericsson acquisition BroadcomThere he worked on cellphone chips and contributed to mobile standards Third generation participation project (3gpp), is a global association of telecommunications standards organizations that create and maintain specifications for mobile systems.

Broadcom left the Cellular baseband chip business, leaving Lu for a job in Academia in 2013.

An educational career in Stevens

Joined Lu in 2015 Stevens instituteHobocaine, in NJ, as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He became a full -time professor in 2018.

Now, he says, he sees the educationist as a continuity – not from the work of his life.

He says, “What I spent in the world for decades gives me information to the students who will not get students from the textbooks.”

“When students tell me that they have found their way … this is the most beneficial thing.”

Stevens honored him with it in May 2019 Morton reputed teaching professor award,

He encourages his students to adopt lifelong learning and develop soft skills with technical knowledge. He does not just teach engineering, he says; He “works to help students find out who they are and where they are.”

Although he recently announced his intention to retire, the school has persuaded him to remain with a new role to formally declare him formally before the next semester.

“I will continue for at least three more years,” they say.

Participation with the development of standards

During his career, IEEE remains a stable, they say. He joined as a student member in 1980, which was designed by the ability of outstanding and publication opportunities.

His initial IEEE participation was vested in the power system – a echo of his dissertation. His career inspired him to join the telecom industry IEEE Communications Society And this IEEE Standards AssociationHe served as the director of the development of society standards in 2012 and 2013. In that role, he presided over Standard development boardHe also served in society Standardization program development board For many years.

Lu now presides over the IEEE Standards BoardMating connection committeeWhich ensures that the proposed industry connection activities are within the scope and purpose of IEEE. The committee, he says, “is a well -oil machine.” He has led the group since 2018, and although he has very thought to turn Bagdor towards a successor, he has stopped as a chair to ensure his continuity.

They have also served Audit, Patent, ProceduresAnd New standard Committees.

Even after decades of professional achievement, they say, he focuses on learning, advising and building bridges among the generations of engineers.

He has been most excited about the direction that his career has taken, “When students tell me that he has discovered the way for his career.”

“This is the most rewarding thing,” they say. “When I know I have done my work. I feel proud to see them to embrace my philosophy of learning a daily habit.”