{"652572":{"#nid":"652572","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In Loving Memory of Kendall Su","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKendall Su, our treasured friend and colleague in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), passed away on October 26 after a brief hospitalization. He was 95 years old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSu was a much admired and beloved educator and mentor in ECE\u0026nbsp;and in the Georgia Tech community. He joined the electrical engineering\u0026nbsp;faculty in 1954 and taught for 40 years until his retirement in 1994. He\u0026nbsp;then taught for another 10 years as a \u0026ldquo;retired but working\u0026rdquo; faculty member.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESu received his bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in electrical and mechanical\u0026nbsp;engineering from Xiamen University, China, in 1947 and then went to\u0026nbsp;work as a junior engineer with the Taiwan Power Company in Taiwan,\u0026nbsp;China. He then emigrated to the United States in 1948. Shortly after his\u0026nbsp;arrival, Su began his graduate studies at Georgia Tech, earning his\u0026nbsp;M.S.E.E. in 1949. He then entered the newly formed Ph.D. program in\u0026nbsp;electrical engineering and became the School\u0026rsquo;s third Ph.D. graduate in\u0026nbsp;1954. While serving as a graduate teaching assistant, Su was\u0026nbsp;offered a position as an assistant professor, which he started in the\u0026nbsp;fall of 1954.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESu\u0026rsquo;s contributions to Georgia Tech were considerable, and without a\u0026nbsp;doubt, he was the School\u0026rsquo;s first \u0026ldquo;homegrown scholar.\u0026rdquo; Su eventually\u0026nbsp;achieved the highest academic rank of Regents Professor and was the\u0026nbsp;first electrical engineering faculty member to be recognized with that\u0026nbsp;title.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSu set the standard in teaching and scholarly publications and was\u0026nbsp;the mainstay of the required undergraduate circuits courses. ECE alumni\u0026nbsp;have described his courses as tough but fair. They credit Su\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;toughness in the beginning electrical engineering courses for preparing\u0026nbsp;them for the rigor that would follow, and eventually, for long,\u0026nbsp;productive, and successful careers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSu conducted research in active network synthesis, active filters,\u0026nbsp;distributed-parameter networks, and electromagnetic compatibility. A\u0026nbsp;Fellow of the IEEE, he was well-known for his pioneering work in active\u0026nbsp;networks. Su was the author of four major textbooks that were\u0026nbsp;widely admired by his colleagues at universities throughout the country.\u0026nbsp;The texts included\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EActive Network Synthesis\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(McGraw-Hill Book Company,\u0026nbsp;1965);\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETime-Domain Synthesis of Linear Networks\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Prentice-Hall Inc.,\u0026nbsp;1971);\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFundamentals of Circuits, Electronics, and Signal Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978); and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHandbook of Tables for\u0026nbsp;Elliptic-Function Filters\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Kluwer Publishing Co., 1990).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nECE Professors Emeriti Roger Webb and David Hertling wrote a story entitled \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/news\/645971\/kendall-su-standard-educator-excellence\u0022\u003EKendall Su: The Standard for Excellence\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;which was a tribute to him and his family. Su is survived by his wife, Jennifer; his daughter, Adrienne; and\u0026nbsp;his son, Jonathan, who graduated with his Ph.D. in ECE from Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;in 1997.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAn online memorial service for Su is scheduled for Saturday, November 20 at 3 pm EST. For specific details, please contact Jackie Nemeth at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. To honor Su\u0026rsquo;s memory, contributions may be made to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/act.alz.org\/site\/Donation2?df_id=32112\u0026amp;32112.donation=form1\u0022\u003EAlzheimer\u0026rsquo;s Association\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/greatnonprofits.org\/org\/park-springs-foundation\u0022\u003EPark Springs Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E. Please join all of us in the ECE community in remembering the Su family in your thoughts and prayers in the days to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Regents Professor Emeritus Kendall Su, our treasured friend and colleague, passed away on October 26\u0026nbsp;after a brief hospitalization.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Regents Professor Emeritus Kendall Su, our treasured friend and colleague, passed away on October 26\u00a0after a brief hospitalization.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-11-08 20:24:01","changed_gmt":"2021-11-12 14:42:10","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"645967":{"id":"645967","type":"image","title":"Kendall and Jonathan Su","body":null,"created":"1617217289","gmt_created":"2021-03-31 19:01:29","changed":"1617217289","gmt_changed":"2021-03-31 19:01:29","alt":"ECE Professor Kendal Su with his son Jonathan at his Georgia Tech Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony.","file":{"fid":"245245","name":"KendallJonathanSu3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KendallJonathanSu3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KendallJonathanSu3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":53422,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KendallJonathanSu3.jpg?itok=26JvkW_i"}}},"media_ids":["645967"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"189305","name":"Kendall Su"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404.894.2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}