David Keun Cheng (January 10, 1918 – August 22, 2012) was a Chinese-born Professor of Electrical Engineering.
[1][2] His 1983 undergraduate textbook Field and Wave Electromagnetics has been cited in more than 4000 publications[3] and in 2016 is in the collections of about 500 libraries around the world.
degree in Electrical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai in 1938, graduating at the head of his class.
In 1948, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Syracuse University and was appointed a full professor in 1955.
Cheng has published four books: Analysis of Linear Systems (1959, translated into Chinese; Indian Student Edition, 1988), Field and Wave Electromagnetics (1st.
He was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary).
He was selected by the National Academy of Sciences to be an Exchange Scientist to Hungary in 1972, to Yugoslavia in 1974, and to Poland and Romania in 1978.
In 1996, the centennial year of SJTU, Dr. Cheng established and funded an Award for Teaching and Research Excellence at the School of Electronics and Information Technology.