Ting-wei Tang ’61 ScM, ’64 PhD

Ting-wei Tang ’61 ScM, ’64 PhD, of Gainesville, Va.; Apr. 5. He was professor emeritus of electrical engineering at UMass Amherst. Previously, he was an assistant professor at UConn for four years. He published more than 120 articles. In the 1980s he served as director of the minority engineering program and was the recipient of the outstanding senior faculty award in 1989 and the outstanding teaching award from the College of Engineering in 1991. In 2000, UMass Amherst awarded him the chancellor’s medal. He and his wife, Shirley, who predeceased him, endowed the Shirley and Ting-wei Tang endowment lecture series at UMass Amherst. Survivors include daughter Patricia J. Tang ’93 and son Steven J. Tang ’89.