Eichelberger, Ed
From Lehigh Engineering Heritage Initiative
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| Birthplace: | Virginia |
| Degree: | B.S. electrical engineering |
| Graduation: | 1956 |
| Notable Achievement: | National champion wrestler, holder of many patents in the fields of chip, circuit, and test design |
Ed "Ike" Eichelberger was a two-time NCAA Champion, winning the title in 1955 and 1956 in the 147 lb. weight class; both were undefeated seasons for the wrestler. He was also the 1955 Outstanding wrestler at the championships. In his three-year wrestling career at Lehigh, he lost only three matches, winning 94 percent of the time.
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Dr. Eichelberger graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1956. Although he returned to school to graduate with a Ph.D. (also in electrical engineering) from Princeton University in 1973, Dr. Eichelberger took a position at IBM after leaving Lehigh.
At his division in Endicott, NY, Dr. Eichelberger worked in VLSI chip design, circuit design, design automation, and design for testability. He became the manager of the Advanced VLSI Technology and Testing Department at the Kingston facility. While at IBM, he published the first paper on Level-Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) with Thomas Williams and made significant contributions to the area of weighted random patterns. Dr. Eichelberger holds over twenty patents including one of the first made on memory BIST (built-in self test).
For his achievements in his field, Dr. Eichelberger is an IBM Fellow as well as a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellows. He has won numerous awards including the first TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal in 1999, the W. Wallace MacDowell Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Computer Arts in 1989 which he shared with Thomas Williams, three IBM Division Awards, and two IBM Corporate Awards.
Now retired from IBM, Dr. Eichelberger and his wife, Patsy, live in Suffolk, VA.
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[edit] See Also
- Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame Bio
- "Bethlehem's Champ" article in TIME magazine
- Edward B. Eichelberger receives TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal
- IEEE Fellows of 1986
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