Awards and Honors
In 1980, Jacobs was the co-recipient, with Andrew J. Viterbi, the 1980 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) biannual award. In 1992, Jacobs was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in High Technology by the Institute of American Entrepreneurs, and in May 1993, he was awarded the American Electronics Association (AEA) "Inventing America's Future" award.
For his development of CDMA, Jacobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1994. That same year, he was awarded the 1994 Cornell University Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 1995, Jacobs won the 1995 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal For outstanding contributions to telecommunications, including leadership, theory, practice and product development.
He was named a Marconi Prize recipient and Marconi Fellow in 2011. Jacobs was awarded the Bower Award for Business Leadership in 2001.
Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs are contributors to public arts and education in San Diego. For this, Jacobs was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship in 2004.
Jacobs delivered the 2005 commencement speech at MIT, and the 2008 commencement speech at the Jacobs School of Engineering.
Jacobs and Andrew J. Viterbi received the 2007 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award, for "fundamental contributions, innovation, and leadership that enabled the growth of wireless telecommunications".
On April 19, 2012, Jacobs was named the W. P. Carey School Dean’s Council of 100 Executive of the Year – an honor reserved for change-making business leaders who serve as models for today’s business students. Recent honorees include Richard Adkerson, president and CEO of Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc. and Alan Mullaly, president and CEO, Ford Motor Company. The first recipient was Andrew S. Grove, CEO of Intel Corporation.
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