Miles Copeland: Three Decades of Scientific Excellence and Industrial Relevance

We know Miles Copeland well as an academic, having attended his graduate-level courses and then having the pleasure of working alongside him at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, delivering courses on selected topics in IC technology to graduate students. We know him better through a series of intensive collaborations in the industrial setting of Bell-Northern Research (BNR) and Northern Telecom (NT, later just Nortel) that began in the early 1970s. Miles, from the perspective of local industry, was not just seen an international leader in the field of analog/mixed-signal/RF IC design; rather, we were mentored by him personally as a technical expert. We also watched him mentor generations of graduate students as a professor, teacher, and advisor at Carleton. He and his research teams have consistently produced innovative results of the highest quality that have been extensively published and recognized by peers, his academic institution, and industry as an extraordinary body of work.