He is the Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar and former Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head at Auburn University.
Among his notable awards is the IEEE’s Richard M. Emberson Award (2000) “for a long and distinguished record of service to the IEEE in the educational, technical and publication areas.”[2] Irwin is widely known in the ECE and engineering education communities for his undergraduate university-level textbooks in electrical engineering and related areas.
Irwin was associated with several start-up companies, including Aunigma Network Solutions.
[4] Aunigma is an IT company based in Atlanta, Georgia US, addressing new generation Internet Protocol (IP) connections.
Aunigma’s products are based on intellectual property (IP) created by the ECE Department at Auburn University.