IBM Faculty Development Award in 1984. National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1986, the JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence in 1992. NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 1996. Induction into the US Space Foundation Space Technology Hall of Fame in 1999. Photographic Society of America Progress Medal in 2003. Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal in 2004. IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award in 2009. Inventor of the Year by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association in 2010. Induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011. Elected as a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2012. Elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013. Received the Doctor of Science honoris causa from Trinity College (Connecticut) in 2014. Received 2017 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (shared with 3 people) OSA/IS&T Edwin H. Land Medal in 2020. National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Technology and Engineering Emmy Award in 2020 References External links Profile of Eric R. Fossum Eric R. Fossum at Dartmouth personal site Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni Columbia University faculty 1957 births Living people Dartmouth College faculty Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni Date of birth missing (living people) American electrical engineers Electrical engineering academics