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Dr. Stephen Horan is the Department Head of the Klipsch
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Klipsch
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New
Mexico State University. Previously, he held the Frank
Carden Chaired Professorship in Telemetering and Telecommunications
within the Klipsch School. His responsibilities include teaching
in the communications and telemetering areas, research in space
communications, and working with other groups in the department,
university, and industry. The industry connection has strong
ties with the International
Foundation for Telemetering. He is also the faculty advisor
for the NMSU Amateur Radio Club, W5GB.
In April 2003, Stephen Horan received the El Paso Corporation
Foundation Faculty Achievement Award and in August 2005, he received
a NMSU University Research Council Award for Exceptional Achievements
in Creative Scholarly Activity.
Stephen Horan received his A.B. degree in Physics from Franklin
and Marshall College in 1976, an M.S. degree in astronomy in
1979, the M.S.E.E degree in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering in 1984 all from New Mexico State University.
From 1984 through 1986, he was a software engineer and systems
engineer with Space Communications Company at the NASA White
Sands Ground Terminal where he was involved with the software
maintenance and specification for satellite command and telemetry
systems and operator inter-faces. In 1986 he joined the faculty
at New Mexico State University.
Dr. Horan is the author of Introduction to PCM Telemetering
Systems published by CRC Press. He is also a Senior Member of
both the IEEE and AIAA, and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu. Dr.
Horan holds an amateur Extra radio license.
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