Harley R. Myler
Professor & Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering
Mitchell Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
Lamar University
BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
HARLEY R. MYLER, Ph.D., P.E.
Harley Myler is Professor and Chair
of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lamar University in Beaumont
Texas. He is also the inaugural holder of the William B. and Mary G. Mitchell
Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering. The Mitchell Chair in the College of
Engineering was made possible by a gift of $1.2 million by the alumni couple to
the Lamar University Foundation. Mr. Mitchell is a former Vice-Chairman of
Texas Instruments, Inc. Dr. Myler's research interests are in digital video
processing with an emphasis on broadband and broadcast distribution. This
includes source and destination display and presentation technologies, channel
efficiency considerations, compression and coding, Internet and intranet
issues, multimedia formats and video quality analysis and
investigation.
Dr. Myler came to Lamar from the University of Central Florida,
Orlando, where he was a professor of electrical engineering. He began his
college education at Virginia Military Institute and received a double-major
bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and chemistry in 1975. After
serving as a missile systems officer in the Army, he began studies at NMSU in
1979 and earned the MSEE in 1981 and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in
1985. He began his academic career as an instructor at NMSU before joining the
faculty at the University of Central Florida in 1986. He is a registered
professional engineer in electrical engineering.
Dr. Myler has received several awards for teaching excellence from
honor societies and other entities, including Computer Engineering Educator of
the Year at UCF. He has published numerous books and articles and has obtained
patents and copyrights for his work, in addition to securing more than $2
million in research grants.
Dr. Myler and his wife, Nancy, have two children.
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