Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsNannapaneni Narayana RaoNannapaneni Narayana Rao was born in Kakumanu, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Prior to going to United States in 1958, he attended high schools in Pedanandipadu and Nidubrolu; the Presidency College, Madras (now known as Chennai); and the Madras Institute of Technology. He completed high school from Nidubrolu in 1947, received the BSc. Degree in Physics from the University of Madras in 1952, and the Diploma in Electronics from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1955. In the United States, he attended the University of Washington, receiving the MS and PhD Degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1960 and 1965, respectively. In 1965, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, now Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, serving as Associate Head of the Department since 1987.At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he carried out research in the general area of radiowave propagation in the ionosphere and authored the undergraduate textbook Basic Electromagnetics with Applications (Prentice Hall, 1972), and six editions of Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics (Prentice Hall, 1977, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2000 and 2004). The fifth edition of Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics was translated into Bahasa Indonesia, the language of Indonesia, by a professor of Physics at the Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung.Professor Rao has received numerous awards and honours for his teaching and curricular activities, and contributions to engineering education in India, USA and Indonesia. He received the IEEE Technical Field Award in Undergraduate Teaching in 1994 with the citation, “For inspirational teaching of undergraduate students and the development of innovative instructional materials for teaching courses in electromagnetics.”In Fall 2003, Professor Rao was named to be the first recipient of the the Edward C. Jordan Professorship in Electrical and Engineering, created to honor the memory of Professor Jordon, who served as department head for 25 years, and to be held by a “member of the faculty of the department who has demonstrated the qualities of Professor Jordan and whose work would best honor the legacy of Professor Jordan.”On March 5,2004, Prof Rao received the Gnana Ratna (Jewel of Knowledge) Award from His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Viswayogi Viswamjee Maharaj at Viswanagar, Guntur, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the Swamiji, “for rendering special services in his field”.