Everard Mott Williams - Accomplishments

Accomplishments

• Recipient of a 1938 General Electric Charles A. Coffin fellowship totalling $5,000 for advanced study and research. The fellowship was used to investigate the properties of short-wave transmitting antennas.
• Eta Kappa Nu recognition award - 1946.
• George Westinghouse professor of the Carnegie Mellon University.
• Member Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, The American Association of University Professors, The American Society of Engineering Education.
• 1952 awarded a $12,600 research grant by the National Science Foundation to support research in the field of Phenomena Accompanying Transient Low Voltage Sparkover in Liquid Dielectrics.
• Pittsburgh Man of the Year in 1959.
• Most Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer in the United States in 1946. The award by the Eta Kappa Nu, national electrical engineering fraternity, goes to persons under 35, and out of college 10 years, who have performed "meritorious service in the interest of mankind.".
• Cited by the President of the United States for "Outstanding fidelity and meritorius conduct in the aid of the war effort" in WWII. Awarded the President's Certificate of merit for WWII work on radar, guided missiles and infr red systems at Wright field in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1971 Western Electric Award for excellent instruction of engineering students.
• Designed the oscillator and deflector for the $2,500,000 synchro-cyclotron at Carnegie Tech.
• Developed a radar device during WWI which was used on US missiles from 1944 through 1960, which increased accuracy of directing the missile to its target.
• Consultant to Firth Sterling, Carbide corp, U.S. Army Ordnance Dept.
• Member of the board of directors of Electronic Associates.
• Served on NASA's research advisory committee on communications and data processing.
• Holds more than 100 patents in radar, guided missiles, photographic equipment, machine tools, electronic organs, and radio receivers, transmitters and jamming devices.