Michael Steer received his B.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland , Brisbane, Australia , in 1976 and 1983 respectively. Currently he is Lampe Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University . Professor Steer is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers cited for contributions to the computer aided engineering of non-linear microwave and millimeter-wave circuits. He is active in the Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society. In 1997 he was Secretary of the Society and from 1998 to 2000, and from 2003 to 2006 was an Member of its Administrative Committee. He was Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques from 2003 to 2006. In 1999 and 2000 he was Professor and Director of the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics at the University of Leeds where he held the Chair in Microwave and Millimeterwave Electronics. He has authored more than 400 publications on topics related to nonlinear RF effects; RF behavioral modeling; RF circuit simulation; microwave and millimeter-wave systems; high-speed digital design; and RF/microwave design methodology. He is an expert on the modeling, theory and experimental investigations of circuit-field interactions. Particular efforts include multi-scale multi-physics modeling, development of electronic manufacturing technologies, and the merging of communication and circuit research. He has authored three books: Foundations of Interconnect and Microstrip Design, by T. C. Edwards and M.B. Steer, John Wiley, 2000; Microwave and RF Design: A Systems Approach, by M. B. Steer, SCITECH, 2010; and Multifunctional Adaptive Microwave Circuits and Systems, edited by M. B. Steer and W. D. Palmer, SCITECH, 2009. He is a 1987 Presidential Young Investigator (USA) and in 1994, and again in 1996, he was awarded the Bronze Medallion by U.S. Army Research for "Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment." He received the Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Research Award from North Carolina State University in 2003.