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Nannapaneni Narayana Rao ..Dedicated teacher and outstanding contributor to electromagnetics
Books Written
1) “BASIC ELECTROMAGNETICS WITH APPLICATIONS”
2) “Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics”
3) “What is Electromagnetics (Telugu Article courtesy TANA Monthly Magazine)”
Nannapaneni Narayana Rao was born in Kakumanu, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh,
India. Prior to coming to the United States in 1958, he attended high schools in
Pedanandipadu and Nidubrolu; the Presidency College, Madras (now known as
Chennai); and the Madras Institute of Technology. He completed high school in
Nidubrolu in 1947, and received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the University
of Madras in 1952 and the Diploma in electronics from the Madras Institute of
Technology in 1955. In the United States, he attended the University of Washington,
receiving the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1960 and
1965, respectively. In 1965, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical
Engineering, now the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, and has been serving as
Associate Head of the Department since 1987.
At the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Professor Rao carried
out research in the general area of ionospheric propagation and authored the
undergraduate textbook Basic Electromagnetics with Applications (Prentice Hall,
1972), prior to the six editions (1977, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2000, and 2004) of this
book. The fifth edition was translated into Bahasa Indonesia, the language of
Indonesia, by a professor of physics at the Bandung Institute of Technology,
Bandung. The Salutation to Lord Ganesha (Om Shri Ganeshaya Namaha) in the
dedication, which first appeared in the fifth edition, was inspired in part by Professor
Rao’s visit in January 1999 to the Bandung Institute of Technology, where
the image of Ganesha adorns the entrance to the Institute on Jalan Ganesha.
Professor Rao has received numerous awards and honors for his teaching
and curricular activities. These include the first Award in Engineering in 1983
from the Telugu Association of North America (TANA), an association of Teluguspeaking
people of origin in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India, with the citation,
“Dedicated teacher and outstanding contributor to electromagnetics;” a plaque of
highest appreciation from the Faculty of Technology, University of Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia, for curriculum development in 1985–1986; the Campus Undergraduate
Instructional Awards in 1982 and 1988, the Everitt Award for Teaching
Excellence from the College of Engineering in 1987, the Campus Award for xxxi
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Teaching Excellence and the first Oakley Award for Innovation in Instruction in
1989, and the Halliburton Award for Engineering Education Leadership from the
College of Engineering in 1991, all at the University of Illinois at Urbana–
Champaign; election to Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers) in 1989 for contributions to electrical engineering education and ionospheric
propagation; the AT&T Foundation Award for Excellence in Instruction of
Engineering Students from the Illinois–Indiana Section of the ASEE (American
Society for Engineering Education) in 1991; the ASEE Centennial Certificate in
1993 for exceptional contribution to the ASEE and the profession of engineering;
the IEEE Technical Field Award in Undergraduate Teaching in 1994 with the
citation, “For inspirational teaching of undergraduate students and the development
of innovative instructional materials for teaching courses in electromagnetics;”
and the Excellence in Education Award from TANA in 1999.
In Fall 2003, Professor Rao was named to be the first recipient of the Edward
C. Jordan Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, created to honor
the memory of Professor Jordan, who served as Department Head for 25 years,
and to be held by a “member of the faculty of the department who has demonstrated
the qualities of Professor Jordan and whose work would best honor the
legacy of Professor Jordan.”
On March 5, 2004, Professor Rao received the Gnana Ratna (Jewel of Knowledge)
Award from His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Viswayogi Viswamjee Maharaj at
Viswanagar near Guntur, on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of the Swamiji,
“for rendering special services in his field.”
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