C. Sidney Burrus is the Maxfield-Oshman Professor Emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas. ย Over the last 40 years, he has been Dean of Engineering and Chair of the ECE Department. He has authored 5 books and over 250 articles and has received teaching and research awards from the IEEE, Rice, and others. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS, and received the IEEE Kilby Medal. ย The Connexions Project started in 1999 at Rice University to apply modern technology and theory to education. ย It has grown to be one of the most used Open Educational Resources (OER) in the world. ย Burrus has been closely involved with the project since its founding and has lectured and published widely on it. ย Professor Burrus has also been on founding committees for universities in Germany, Vietnam and Pakistan and has held visiting positions at MIT and the University of Erlangen in Germany.
