Rate My Professor Mark Fowler

Mark Fowler is the Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He earned a Bachelor of Technology from Binghamton University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1991. Joining the faculty immediately after his doctorate in fall 1991, Fowler has built an exemplary career focused on undergraduate teaching excellence and pedagogical innovation. He pioneered the flipped classroom approach in his Signals and Systems course, where students review video lectures prior to class and spend class time on collaborative problem-solving and hands-on activities. This method has received widespread acclaim from students for its effectiveness. Fowler was also instrumental in developing the Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering online program, the nation's only fully online undergraduate electrical engineering degree. His course forms a key component of this program, and he has published papers on these teaching methods at leading international conferences.

Fowler's research centers on emitter location, estimation theory, data compression, sensor networks, and electronic warfare systems, with contributions to TDOA/FDOA estimation, spatial sparsity for localization, Cramer-Rao bounds, and compression techniques for radar and healthcare applications. Key publications include 'Strategies for Information Injection for Networks Estimating Emitter Location' (2015), 'Accurate tumor localization and tracking in radiation therapy using wireless body sensor networks' (2014), 'Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Frequency Estimation for Coherent Pulse Train With Unknown Pulse' (2014), 'Spatial sparsity based indoor localization in wireless sensor network' (2013), and 'Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of a wideband acoustic source in multipath environment using spatial sparsity' (2017). He has authored 81 publications, accumulating over 900 citations. His achievements have been honored with the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006-2007), Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service (2011-2012), University's Outstanding Graduate Director Award (2012-2013), University Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring (2002-2003), and induction into the SUNY Distinguished Academy of Teaching Scholars as a Distinguished Teaching Professor (2015).