Greensboro, N.C. - Dr. Derrek Butler Dunn,
an associate
professor at North Carolina Agricultural
and Technical State University,
has
been promoted to
chair of
the department
of electronics and computer technology.
He
will assume his new position in August.
Dunn has been a faculty member in the
School of
Technology since 1998. He
received B.S. degrees
in mathematics and electrical
engineering from N.C. A&T, M.S. degrees
His current research interests
include global positioning systems, wireless communication system design,
real-time optical image processing and remote sensing of the lower
atmosphere. He has obtained over $1.6 million
in research and in-kind
contributions to A&T.