Qualcomm Inc. CEO Irwin Jacobs will chair the National Academy of Engineering as part of a new slate of elected officials.

Jacobs, co-founder and board chairman of San Diego-based Qualcomm, was recently elected to a two-year term as NAE chairman. The chairman works closely with the federal advisory organization's president and governing council to pursue NAE's mission of supporting national technology innovation.

Jacobs was elected to the NAE in 1982 and founded Qualcomm in 1985. He gave up the title of Qualcomm CEO in 2005.

Jacobs succeeds Intel Corp. board chairman Craig Barrett, who is retiring from the position due to term limits.

The NAE also elected Thomas Budinger, a University of California at Berkeley bioengineering professor and senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to a four-year term as home secretary. He was elected to the NAE in 1996.

Three new members of the NAE's governing council were elected to three-year terms: Alice Agogino, UC-Berkeley mechanical engineering professor; Paul Gray, UC-Berkeley executive vice chancellor and provost emeritus; and Julia Phillips, director of the Physical, Chemical and Nano Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories.

Bradford Parkinson, a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University and co-inventor of the Global Positioning System, was re-elected to a three-year term.

G. Wayne Clough, secretary-designate of the Smithsonian Institute and president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, was appointed to a one-year term to fill the council seat vacated by Budinger.

All new terms begin July 1.