His focus for many years was the undergraduate electromagnetic curriculum. Staelin was a dedicated teacher who helped educate generations of electrical engineers. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2005. From 1990 to 2001, he was assistant director of MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he focused on enhancing the Laboratory’s long-range focus while strengthening its ties to the main MIT campus. Staelin was an active member of the MIT community, serving on numerous committees and in many leadership roles. These included the development of practical image- and video-compression technology, advanced methodologies for data-rich manufacturing problems (which he pursued under the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program), heterogeneous and wireless communication architectures, and, most recently, neuronal computation models. In recent years, Staelin turned his attention to diverse emerging problems requiring sophisticated signal processing and estimation theory. Starting in 1998, he co-developed techniques using operational millimeter-wave sounding satellites for more frequent and complete mapping of global precipitation. He was also a co-investigator on the 1977 NASA Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft missions, studying nonthermal radio emission from the outer planets. Among many examples of his leadership in this field, he was principal investigator in the development of the first two Earth-orbiting microwave imaging spectrometers launched in 1975 for mapping global temperature and humidity through clouds. Over time, Staelin’s interests expanded to include remote sensing for climate monitoring, a field to which he brought a strong command of electromagnetics, signal-processing methodology and computation trends.
Among his first accomplishments, in 1968 he developed a computationally efficient algorithm that enabled him to co-discover the Crab Nebula Pulsar, helping confirm the existence of neutron stars predicted by theoretical physics. Staelin joined the MIT faculty in 1965, conducting research in radio astronomy. His career, colleagues said, was distinguished by abundant accomplishments and widespread impact.īorn and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Staelin came to MIT at age 18 as a freshman, in 1956, and remained at the Institute as a student and faculty member for the rest of his life. He was 73.ĭriven by a deeply felt sense of responsibility to MIT, the nation and society as a whole, Staelin dedicated his long career to basic science, technology development, service, education and entrepreneurship. Staelin ’60, SM ’61, ScD ’65, a professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Research Laboratory of Electronics, died Nov.
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