2023-06-252023-06-25https://tore.tuhh.de/handle/11420/38140Eric W. Gill received the B.Sc. degree (1st class) in physics and B.Ed. (1st class) from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, in 1977, and the M.Eng. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from MUN in 1990 and 1999, respectively. For his M.Eng. thesis, he received the, Dunsiger Award, the Engineering Faculty's highest award for research excellence, and for his PhD research he received the Dunsiger Award a second time and the Governor General's Gold Medal, the highest graduate honour of the University. For over two decades, from July 1977, Eric was a Lecturer in physics, mathematics and electronics in the Engineering Technologies of what is now The College of the North Atlantic (the Provincial College System), and from 1987, on a part-time basis, he began to pursue research interests in rough surface electromagnetic scattering theory at MUN. In September 1996, he took educational leave from his College teaching to complete a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Upon submission of his PhD thesis in August 1998, he returned to the College for two additional academic years. In July 2000, he left his College position to join MUN's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, becoming a Full Professor in 2009. He is currently a lifetime Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, MUN, where he continues to conduct research and supervise graduate and undergraduate students in theoretical and applied electromagnetics. His special interest lies in the scattering of high frequency electromagnetic radiation from time-varying, randomly rough surfaces, with particular application to the use of high frequency surface wave radar in remote sensing of the marine environment. His latest pursuits include ocean remote sensing using both X-band nautical radar and synthetic aperture radar. With collaborators in private industry and government agencies such as the department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Department of National Defence, he has developed algorithms for ocean remote sensing with portable HF and X-band radar systems. Since joining the University, Eric has received the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science awards for both Teaching Excellence (inaugural award) and Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision and also the President's Distinguished Teaching Award (awarded in recognition of a faculty member's continued record of excellence in teaching at Memorial University for a minimum of 10 years based on outstanding achievement in teaching and engagement in educational leadership, and the scholarship of teaching and learning). Eric is a member of the American Geophysical Union, a senior member of the IEEE (Oceanic Engineering and Antennas and Propagation Societies) and an associated editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. Since 2000, he has been intimately involved in various positions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Section Executive of the IEEE, having served two-year terms as Section Vice- Chair, Chair and Past-Chair, and many years as Awards Chair.