John C. Bellamy, II - This years Tau Beta Pi Alumnus Eminent Engineer.

Tau Beta Pi Alumnus Eminent Engineer - John C. Bellamy, II

August 03, 2009 -When John Bellamy received his B.S. in electrical engineering (1963), he was the third generation to receive an engineering degree from the University of Wyoming. John went on to receive his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona in 1965, and 1971, respectively.

John has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications and data communications product development – as an individual contributor and manager. John was responsible for the systems design and development of systems for: digital switching, microwave transmission, cellular telephones, optical fiber networks, digital signal processing, and packet data based networks. John has been awarded over a dozen patents in communications systems technology.

In addition to his industrial experience he has lectured as an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Southern Methodist University where he taught courses in telecommunications and computer programming. In January 2000, the third edition of John’s seminal book on digital telecommunications Digital Telephony was published. Over 50,000 copies of Digital Telephony have been published worldwide and the manuscript has been translated into Japanese and Russian.

John has been active in the Dallas Chapter of the IEEE and received the 1996 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award as the best tutorial paper, “Digital Network Synchronization,” published in 1995 in the IEEE Communications magazine.

Previous Award Winners
Tau Beta Pi Alumnus Eminent Engineer

1995 Anton (Tony) Radman, Jr.
1996 Dwight Senser 1997 Donald R. Lamb
1998 Thomas A. Lockhart
1999 Harold O. Kester
2000 Wayman Wing
2001 William Bellamy
2002 Constantine H. Houpis
2003 John W. Steadman
2004 James R. Goodman
2005 Jerry M. Calkins
2006 Patrick Burns
2007 Jeffrey Daniel Rowe
2008 Terrence Dwan