Dr. Richard K. Martin, Professor of Electrical Engineering within the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, is the winner of the 2014 Air Force Outstanding Science and Engineering Educator Award!

During 2013, Dr. Martin taught four sections of two graduate courses, and achieved near-perfect student evaluations.  He contributed to the Cyber 300 professional development course, developed activities for K-12 outreach, and submitted a journal paper on game-centric curriculum design.  He was also on three curriculum-related committees, including chairing the academic resources committee, and organized the ongoing assessment of the graduate electrical engineering curriculum.

Dr. Martin has been at AFIT since August 2004. AFIT students have voted him";Instructor of the Quarter" three times for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Eta Kappa Nu “Instructor of the Year” twice.  One of his students commented; “Dr. Martin is one of the best instructors I’ve ever had. He makes difficult material just make sense so that it’s hard to forget.”  According to Dr. Martin, “there is no winning formula for good teaching, but if the students know you really care about them, they will do their best for you.  That helps more than the most eloquently delivered lecture.”

His research interests include: source localization; navigation via signals of opportunity; equalization for multicarrier communication systems; blind, adaptive algorithms; sparse adaptive filters; and laser radar image enhancement. He has authored 33 journal papers, 60 conference papers, 1 book chapter, and has 5 patents to his credit. Google scholar lists over 1000 citations of his papers.