The Thomas G. Myers Professorship of Electrical Engineering is a chaired professorship position at California Institute of Technology. The Thomas G. Myers Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Caltech was made possible through the generosity of Thomas G. Myers along with his daughter and son-in-law, Barbara Myers Garltnghouse and Albert Garlinghouse. Thomas Myers graduated from Caltech in 1922 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and went on to become president of U.S. Electrical Motors. He remained president of Emerson Electric's Electrical Motors Division even after the company merged with the Emerson Electrical company in 1962. He was a life member of the Caltech Alumni Association and a member of the Caltech Associates. He died on January 25, 1978.
Upon learning that her father had not completed funding of the chair, Barbara Garlinghouse, and her husband Albert, pledged to fulfill that promise with a generous gift of their own. The Garlinghouses are also life members of the Caltech Associates Amnon Yariv was named the inaugural Myers chair holder in 1979, followed by Demetri Psaltis in 1996, and Ali Hajimiri in 2010.