Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kansas State University
David L. Soldan is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. He is on sabbatical at the United States Naval Academy serving as the ONR Distinguished Chair for Science and Technology. He served as Head of the KSU EECE Department from 1989 to 2004. As a member of the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities since 1999 he has been active in new program evaluator training and new evaluator mentoring. He currently serves as an IEEE Commissioner on the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission. He has served on the IEEE Education Society Adcom and has been the IEEE Computer Society representative to the Frontiers in Education Conference Steering Committee. He served as FIE Co-Program Chair in 1995 and 1998. Soldan served as President of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association in 2002-03. He chaired the Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee of the Joint IEEE Computer Society/ACM Computing Curriculum Taskforce that published the first model curriculum for computer engineering in 2005. The Computer Society recognized this with an Outstanding Contribution Award.
Dr. Soldan is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Tau, Phi Kappa Phi, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He is the faculty advisor to Eta Kappa Nu and the trustee of the Kansas State University Amateur Radio Club. He received the 2006 Robert M. Janowiak Outstanding Leadership and Service Award from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association.
Dr. Soldan has worked in the areas of digital signal processing and adaptive filtering, computer networking, digital systems testing, computer systems reliability, manufacturing automation, and wireless communications. He has been active in computer engineering curriculum development and teaches introductory and advanced logic design classes and a senior level computer architecture class.
Soldan received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 1969, 1976 and 1980, respectively. Prior to joining Kansas State as Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head in 1989, he had been on the faculty at Oklahoma State University, and worked in industry for the NCR Corporation, Motorola, and Collins Radio Company. He served in the United States Air Force for four years and has served as a consultant to IBM, Frontier Engineering, ETO, Inc., and several universities.