Henry R. Irons (BS'43 and MS'47) established the Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Endowed Lectureship to provide financial assistance to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for annual lectures for students, faculty, and the general university community at no charge to the participants. Speakers present on technical topics in the areas of electrical/wireless communications, computer hardware/software engineering, digital signal processing, systems and electronic controls, and solid-state electronics.

About Henry Raymond Irons

Henry Raymond Irons, age 92, of Emlenton, PA passed away on October 17, 2013. He was born in Lakewood, New Jersey on January 19, 1921. Mr. Irons received a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. During his 30 year career at the Naval Research Laboratory in Silver Spring, MD he patented several inventions.

Mr. Irons worked on radar for the US Navy at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, as a civilian electrical engineer after graduating from Rutgers. As World War II progressed, Mr. Irons and his colleagues were inducted into the US Navy, but continued to serve in the same capacity. After the war, Mr. Irons spent much of his career as an engineer with the Naval Surface Weapons Center. His achievements there include co-inventing a magnetometer used to map the Earth's electromagnetic fields (now part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's collection) and designing circuits for the IMP and Explorer VI and XII satellites.

Rutgers Oral History Sessions: Irons, Henry Raymond (May 16, 2008)

The ECE Irons lectures are supported by the Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Endowed Lectureship Fund.