Robert J. Weber (1942 in Stout, Iowa – 21 November 2018 in

Des Moines Des Moines () is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small part of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, ...

) was an American engineer and researcher who specialized in microwave engineering, device fabrication,

fiber optics An optical fiber, or optical fibre in Commonwealth English, is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair. Optical fibers are used most often as a means to ...

, and sensor design. He was professor emeritus of

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...

‘s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a life fellow of the

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(IEEE). Weber received his Ph.D. from Iowa State in 1967. He worked for

Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins was a multinational corporation headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, providing avionics and information technology systems and services to government agencies and aircraft manufacturers. It was formed when the Collins Radio Comp ...

for 25 years before becoming a professor in 1988. He retired in 2010.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Robert 1942 births 2018 deaths Engineers from Iowa Iowa State University alumni Iowa State University faculty American electrical engineers