Marek Andrzej Perkowski
Electrical engineering educator
Born Oct. 6, 1946, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1981; son of Adam and Hanna (Zielinska); married Ewa Kaja (Wilkowska); child: Mateusz.
Education: Department of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, 1969-73; Master of Science (M.S.) (in electronics) (with distinction), 1970, Ph.D. (in automatics) (with distinction), 1980, Technical University of Warsaw.
Career: senior assistant, 1973-80, assistant prof., 1980-81, Technical University of Warsaw; visiting assistant prof., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1981-83; associate prof., 1983-94, prof., 1994 -, Department of Electrical Engineering, Portland State University (OR).
Author: co-author, Theory of Automata, 3 editions, last 1976, Theory of Logic Circuits - Selected Problems, 3 editions, last 1984, Theory of Logic Circuits, 4 editions, last 1986; 10 book chapters; over 130 conference papers and scientific articles in professional journals.
Member of: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Association for Computing Machinery; Special Interest Group on Design Automation; American Society for Engineering Education; Polish National Alliance (P.N.A.); Polish Librarian Association, Portland.
Honors: grants, Commission for Families of Roman Cathotic Church, Vatican, 1981, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1991, 1994; Best Paper award, VHDL (Very Hardware Description Language) International User's Forum, Scottsdale (AZ), 1992; design automation award, Special Interest Group on Design Automation, Association for Computing Machinery / Design Automation Technology Committee Institute of Electrical and Electronics ngineers (IEEE), 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic.
Hobbies: travel, philosophy, computer animation.
Home: 15720 North West Perimeter Drive, Beaverton, OR 97006.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996.