Lifford McLauchlan

Dr. Lifford McLauchlan is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Texas A&M University - Kingsville, and has also worked for Raytheon, Microvision, AT&T Bell Labs, and as an ONR Distinguished Summer Faculty at SPAWAR San Diego, CA. He has over 85 publications covering areas such as IoT, adaptive and intelligent controls, robotics, an ocean wave energy converter, green technology, education, wireless sensor networks and image processing. He is a co-inventor on 3 US patents related to control systems. Dr. McLauchlan is a member of ASEE, IEEE (senior member), SPIE, Eta Kappa Nu, ACES and Tau Beta Pi, and has served as an officer in both ASEE and IEEE in various capacities. Dr. McLauchlan has received the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award twice and the Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award once for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. In 2013, he also has received the Outstanding Student Branch Counselor 2012 award from IEEE Region 5.