Complex sentence: He served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1976 to 1986 and founded and directed the Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory from 1986 to 1998.
Split into simpler sentences: He served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1976 to 1986. He was the founding Director of the Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1986 to 1998.