Dan Goebel and Gabor Temes have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. The award recognizes contributions and innovations to engineering research, practice or education.
Goebel, a UCLA adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he oversees the development of high-efficiency electric thrusters, advanced long-life components such as cathodes and grids, and thruster life model validation for deep space missions. Goebel received all three of his degrees from UCLA, including a B.S. in physics, an M.S. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in applid plasma physics/electrical engineering. He is also an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at USC and serves on the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department's alumni advisory board.
Temes is a distinguished professor emeritus of electrical engineering at UCLA. He is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University with research interests in data converters, switched-capacitor circuits, analog and digital signal processing. Temes completed his undergraduate education in Budapest at the Technical University and Eotvos University, before receiving his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa. He was on the UCLA facutly full-time from 1970 to 1990, including a five-year term as electrical engineering department chair.
