Rate My Professor Daniel Noneaker

Daniel Noneaker is a Professor in the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University and currently holds the position of Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Faculty Affairs in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences. Noneaker joined Clemson University in August 1993 as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He advanced through the academic ranks and served as Chair of the department from 2014 to spring 2020. Under his leadership, the department's annual research expenditures grew significantly from $5.5 million to $9.7 million, and he facilitated the recruitment of 15 new faculty members, including appointments to named professorships and endowed chairs. Following his tenure as department chair, Noneaker served as Associate Dean for Research in CECAS for five years prior to his current administrative role.

Noneaker holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics (with high honors) from Auburn University (1977), an M.S. in Mathematics from Emory University (1979), an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1984), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1993). Before entering academia full-time, he gained industry experience designing hardware and software for communication systems at Sperry-Univac (1979-1982) in Salt Lake City, Utah, and at the Motorola Government Electronics Group (1984-1988) in Scottsdale, Arizona. From 1988 to 1993, he was a Research Assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC. His research specializes in wireless communication systems for both military and commercial applications, with particular emphasis on spread-spectrum communications, error-control coding for fading channels, protocols for mobile radio networks, and the design and analysis of multiple-access systems for cellular communications and ad hoc packet radio networks. Noneaker has authored numerous papers on these topics. He received the 2008 Fred W. Ellersick Military Communications Award from the IEEE Military Communications Conference. Additionally, he contributes to the profession through roles such as technical program chair for conferences and service on conference boards.