Paul Douglas Tougaw
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Paul Douglas ("Doug") Tougaw (born July 3, 1969), is a full professor in and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Valparaiso University. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Rose-Hulmann Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1995.[1] In 2005, Tougaw earned an MBA from Valparaiso University's College of Business Administration.[2] His main area of research interest is in the field of Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA).[3] He was awarded the "Best Regional Paper" award at the 2007 Conference of the American Society of Engineering Educators. He was also runner-up for the USA National IEEE Young Engineer award.
Doug Tougaw's contribution to the field has focused on the building of medium-scale integration components such as full-adders from basic QCA gates as well as fault-tolerance studies of QCA wires.
Presently, Doug Tougaw is the Richardson Professor [4] and member of the department of electrical and computer engineering at Valparaiso University.[5]