ALGIE LANCE AWARD

Each year, the Measurement Science Conference recognizes the confence's best paper award in honor Algie Lance.

Algie Lance was an instructor in Microwave Measurements. His professional career began in 1951 as an electronics instructor at Western Electric, teaching radar/missile systems and electronic circuit analysis courses. In 1952 he went to General Electric, Utica, N.Y. where he was involved in the design and development of analog/digital coding equipment for radar systems. 

Algie Lance joined Hughes Aircraft in 1955 as a standards engineer in the Primary Standards Lab, where he designed and developed microwave measurements and calibration systems. 

Beginning in 1969 he was employed by TRW Electronics & Defense,
Redondo Beach, California, where he held various positions including Section
Head responsible for the RF & Microwave Standards Lab, Low Frequency & DC Standards Lab and the General Instrumentation Lab. His last assignment was
Senior Scientist of the TRW Metrology Lab. 

Mr. Lance taught Microwave Measurements at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, Santa Monica College and Pierce College. He is the author of Introduction to Microwave Theory & Measurements and Microwave Experiments served as  a contributing editor to three other books.  He was the keynote speaker at the 1982 European Microwave Conference in Germany.  He was invited by DOD to make a special briefing to the Under-Secretary of Defense dealing with National capabilities in the area of millimeter wave measurement.

He received the "IEEE Career Award" in 1984 for his work on automated measurement systems. He passed away due to cancer in December 1987.