Miles A. Copeland The analog maestro ED BY GRAPHIC STOCK MUSICAL NOTES IMAGE LICENS John R. Long P rof. Miles Copeland's career spans more than three decades and is marked by the strength of his achievements as an inventor, researcher, mentor, and his remarkable legacy of technologies transferred to local industry. His innovative approach to industry-university collaboration supported the rapid development of the telecommunication and microelectronics industries in Canada between 1968 and 1995. He is the 2016 recipient of the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2015.2497638 Date of publication: 21 January 2016 16 W I N T E R 2 0 16 IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE his outstanding contributions to the design and application of switched-capacitor, precision-MOS analog, and RF signal processing circuits. Miles's career path is unusual in many ways. After growing up at the eastern edge of the prairie in Winnipeg, Canada, he graduated with a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1957. During his early 20s, he worked as a flight instructor for the Canadian Air Force and broke the sound barrier in a 1950s era F-86 Sabre fighter. He then entered graduate study at the University of Toronto and earned his M.A.Sc. (1962) and Ph.D. (1965) degrees studying electrical motors and machines, far from the fast-developing world of semiconductor electronics. As a cofounder of the Electronics Department at Carleton 1943-0582/16©2016IEEEhttp://www.B.Sc http://M.A.Sc