“My life has been so positively impacted with the significant opportunity to know such a giant in the engineering world,” says Jim Watson, an IEEE senior life member and one of Alexander’s mentees.After the engineering programs became accredited, Alexander said in the oral history that his job was done there so he left Temple in 1994 to join California State University, Northridge.But after a few years, Alexander said, he missed creating and growing engineering programs at universities, so when an opportunity opened up at Cleveland State University in 2007, he took it.Jon and I decided to include articles that would help students on topics like career development and how to be successful.” Alexander continued to rise through the ranks in IEEE and was elected the 1991–1992 Region 2 director.“He encouraged others to apply Winston Churchill’s famous quote ‘We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.’” To share your condolences or memories of Alexander, use the commenting"