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Sophocles J. Orfanidis Electrical and Computer Engineering Scholarship Fund

The Rutgers community proposes a scholarship to honor Professor Sophocles J. Orfanidis, an exemplary educator in the Engineering Department. Renowned for his exceptional teaching methods, widely cited and utilized books freely available online, and significant impact on engineering education at Rutgers and beyond, Professor Orfanidis has left an indelible mark on the field. This scholarship will recognize Rutgers students within the electrical and computer engineering department at the School of Engineering encourage them to pursue educational careers, thus continuing his legacy of academic excellence and commitment to accessible education.

Help us reach our goal of $25,000 to name this scholarship fund in honor of Professor Orfanidis and support our ever-growing community of engineering leaders.

All gifts are 100% tax-deductible contributions to the Rutgers University Foundation.

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Prof. Orfanidis was born in Athens, Greece in 1946. He received a B.S. degree in Physics from Miami University, Oxford, OH, in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Theoretical High-Energy Physics at Yale in 1972 at the age of 26. He held postdoctoral research positions at the Rockefeller University, New York, NY, from 1972 to 1974, and at New York University, New York, from 1974 to 1977, working on group-theoretic methods in field theory, high-energy collisions of hadrons, and inverse scattering methods. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Physics at Rutgers when he decided to go for a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering. After only one semester in the program, the Department Chair at that time (also a DSP expert) recruited Sophocles J. Orfanidis as a faculty in the DSP group. He got his tenure at Rutgers in 1984 and stayed with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department until he retired in 2023. He passed away on March 2, 2024.