Anthony N. Michel grew up in Romania as a member of the
Banat Swabian ethnic minority. Prior to emigrating to the United States in 1952, he lived for five years in a
displaced persons camp in Austria. After receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1958 from
Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he spent seven years in the aerospace industry. In 1964, he received a master's degree in mathematics and in 1968 a PhD in electrical engineering from Marquette. In 1973 he received a DSc in applied mathematics from the
Technical University of Graz, Austria. Prior to becoming a member of the faculty of the
University of Notre Dame in 1984, he was for sixteen years a professor of electrical engineering at
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. He joined the faculty at Notre Dame as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and from 1988 until 1998 he was the dean of the College of Engineering at Notre Dame. He has held visiting professorships at the
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, the
Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and the
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. His publications include twelve text books and monographs. Several of his students are distinguished academics and scholars. Anthony N. Michel retired from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 as the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering and the Frank M. Freimann Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He died Saturday, February 1, 2020 at the age of 84. == Awards and recognition ==