AIEE-ire branch honors dr. honnell

Student Members of the Joint AIEE-Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Branch at Washington University recently honored Prof. P. M. Honnell, with a banquet and the presentation of a plaque. While the occasion was initiated by the fact that Prof. Honnell has recently received triple honors-the Marconi Premium prize from The British Institution of Radio Engineers for the “… most outstanding paper of an engineering nature published in Journal (British IRE) during 1956,” a fellowship in the AIEE for “… his contributions to electrical engineering in the fields of research and education,” and a fellowship in IRE for “… distinguished teaching and research in applied electronics”-it was also to recognize his contributions to education in the electrical engineering department at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., and his important fundamental researches which, as yet, have not received specific recognition generally. (For a biographical sketch of Prof. Honnell, see Electrical Engineering, February 1958, p. 177.)