Dr. Ernest Franke

This program will be a review and slide show of projects the Life Members have worked on at the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology. Since 2017 Lone Star Section Life Members have volunteered at SAMSAT and during the past 8 years dozens of IEEE members have contributed thousands of man hours working on scores of different projects. Photos taken during work sessions will show the wide variety of tasks that have been done from 2017 up to the past weekend.. 

Biography:

Ernest Franke received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering at Texas A&I University and a PhD in Engineering at Case-Western Reserve University. He was a professor and Dean of Engineering at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M - Kingsville), Vice President for Research at Alpha Electronics Co. and an Institute Engineer at Southwest Research Institute. Dr. Franke was Chair of the Corpus Christi Section and of the Central Texas Section of the IEEE. He is a past chair of the Lone Star Life Members Affinity Group and currently serves as Secretary of the Lone Star Section and Chair of the Robotics and Automation Chapter. He is retired and spends his time maintaining a sailboat and volunteering at SAMSAT.