Robert J. Trew is the Lancaster Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU). He has previously served as the ECE Department Head at NCSU, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, as the Director of the ECCS Division of the National Science Foundation, and as the Director of Research for the US Department of Defense. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.