JOSEPH R. SROUR
2003 NPSS Merit Award

Joe Srour is presently employed in a senior engineering position at the Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to joining Aerospace in 2003, he worked for TRW (now Northrop Grumman Space Technology) where he managed the Radiation and Survivability Engineering organization. Before TRW, he worked for the Northrop Corporation in Los Angeles for many years where he held various technical and managerial positions, including Senior Research Engineer, Project Manager, and Department Manager. Much of his technical work has focused on nuclear and space radiation effects on materials, devices, circuits, and systems. He has also made technical contributions in the areas of optical detectors, semiconductor device physics, and microelectronics.

Joe was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1987, and is a member of Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. He is the author of one technical book and 49 articles published in refereed technical journals. He received the Outstanding Paper Award six times for papers presented at the annual IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, and received the Meritorious Paper Award twice for papers presented at that same conference. Joe has held various conference management positions in the radiation effects field within the IEEE NPSS. He also organized and taught several short courses on radiation effects, and developed a graduate course in semiconductor device physics. He holds two U.S. patents. Joe received bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Joe Srour can be reached at The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M4/994, P. O. Box 92957, Los Angeles, CA 90009-2957; Phone: +1 310 336-2565; E-mail: joe.srour@aero.org.