Sentences with phrase «engineering dean»

After a brief stint in the aerospace industry, she taught at Pratt Institute, becoming dean of its engineering school in 1985 — the nation's first female engineering dean.

but @dailyorange, what about all the stuff that the NYS AG says the ENGINEERING DEAN did?

She was the nation's first female engineering dean.

Education watchers say the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering dean Subra Suresh to lead the National Science Foundation may lead to greater action on an interagency strategy for science, technology, engineering, and math — or STEM — education research, which has been in the works for a while now.

Several initiatives emphasize interdisciplinary science, an approach that reflects the preferences of the new NSF Director Subra Suresh, who championed such research in his previous position as engineering dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The U.S. Senate voted to approve the Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering dean by unanimous consent late last night before adjourning until 15 November.

Twenty years later, I'm a scientist (with a job — take that, engineering dean), but I still have no idea where to draw the line between science and engineering.

The same is true for the White House's choice to lead NSF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering dean Subra Suresh.

«That's never happened before» in the program's 25 - year history, says engineering dean Joseph Helble.

Not exact matches

«I don't think when Harvey Mudd hired me they really understood how committed I was to diversity,» said Klawe, who had previously been the dean of engineering at Princeton University.

A few days later, the dean of the engineering school brought them a paper bag containing a fifth of whiskey.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

When Vancouver civil engineer James Dean started his greentech company, dPoint Technologies, in the early 2000s, he figured he could hitch his wagon to the promise of the hydrogen fuel cell sector.

Dean of Engineering Pearl Sullivan said she's not sure the movement of engineers can be called a «brain drain» any more, as the tech marketplace is global in reach.

He was dean of Stanford's engineering school when students Sergey Brin and Larry Page...

Google engineer Jeff Dean, who leads the Google Brain project, went further:» «StarCraft» is our likely next target.»

According to the U of A's dean of engineering, Fraser Forbes, the Suzuki flap is «the worst crisis we've faced in more than three decades.»

«I am deeply sorry (ashamed, in fact) for the hurt that we at the university have caused Albertans,» Fraser Forbes, the dean of engineering, wrote.

Jim Dewald, dean of the Haskayne School of Business, and himself an engineer with business degrees, says the new program will help future engineers better understand the business side of the projects they will work on.

Along the way, Pell published in national and international mathematics journals and managed to persuade the university's trustees in 1905 to start an engineering department, of which he became the first dean.

Tom Voice, an associate dean of engineering, is vice chair of the board of directors at Consumer Reports and has served on the board for 10 years.

Tom Kenny, interim dean at the School of Engineering, said that as the school developed the programming, one of its priorities was to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of engineering.

Peña - Mora was also dean of the engineering school from 2009 to 2012, when he resigned after a faculty revolt.

Joining Banerjee on the paper are his thesis advisor, Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of MIT's School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Arvind, the Johnson Professor in Computer Science Engineering; and Andrew Wright and Chiraag Juvekar, both graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science.

Representative Harry Mitchell (D — AZ), the sponsor of the bill in the House of Representatives, and Ben Latigo, dean of the engineering school at the University of the District of Columbia, spoke to us about the bill and its implications for veterans and the country as a whole.

Dean James Tien of the University of Miami in Florida concurs, adding that other engineering fields generally appear to have a «bad rap» with women students because they lack a «connotation of helping.»

Ben Latigo, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC)-- the public university for D.C. residents, with a predominantly African - American enrollment — believes the new GI Bill will broaden the ethnic diversity of the sciences and engineering professions and bring more women into these fields.

First is the brainchild of Dean Kamen, the renowned inventor of the Segway scooter, who conceived the competition in 1989 in an attempt to make engineering cool among teenagers.

The 54 - year - old dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Suresh was named on June 3 to lead the $ 6.9 - billion NSF, which funds research in the non-medical sciences.

«Everything we do as faculty requires communication skills,» stresses Wendi Heinzelman, dean of graduate studies for arts, sciences, & engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester.

Lead author Dean Ho, a biomedical engineer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, says that one of the major challenges in chemotherapy is when tumor cells develop mechanisms to pump drugs right back out.

Dean Pomerleau's pet goldfish, Albert Einstein, knows how to play fetch, a feat the Pittsburgh - area engineer hopes will earn his calico fantail a listing in Guinness World Records as the world's smartest fish.

Liebowitz, a former dean and now professor of engineering at George Washington University, was elected on a platform of shaking up the organization and giving members a greater voice in its affairs.

«It's a precipitous drop,» says Philippe Fauchet, dean of engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, of the 18 % decline his department has seen in international graduate applications as last month's deadlines passed.

But Dean DellaPenna, a plant biologist at the University of Nevada at Reno, is more concerned that the genetic engineering debate will slow efforts to improve nutrition worldwide.

The Indian - born Suresh has been dean since 2007; he came to MIT in 1993 and was chair of the department of materials science and engineering before becoming dean.

The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in line to become the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Too often, academic researchers seeking corporate support for their work try to convince industry scientists that what they do is great science, notes Michael Amiridis, a chemical engineer and dean of the college of engineering and computing at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

The dean of the institute's engineering school knew just the guy to spearhead Piccard's pie - in - the - sky project: André Borschberg, a mechanical engineer with a business degree and a track record of risky start - ups.

Liska also worked with Maribeth Milner, a GIS specialist with the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Steve Goddard, professor of computer science and engineering and interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and graduate student Haitao Zhu to design the computational experiment at the core of the paper.

«We saw that there were some really good women out there who just needed some encouragement and a road map on how to translate their skills from industry into academia,» said Eve Riskin, electrical engineering professor and associate dean for diversity and access at the UW College of Engineering.

But look at another map, said Sritharan, the Wilkinson Chair in Iowa State University's College of Engineering, a professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and the interim assistant dean for strategic initiatives.

Dean Radin, an electrical engineer who worked at Bell Labs before devoting himself full - time to the study of psi, has hypothesized how entanglement might lead to telepathy and clairvoyance.

Since becoming dean in July 2007 he's been a vocal advocate for greater interdisciplinary collaboration across engineering and with MIT's other schools and programs.

Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research and Development Corporation in Manchester, New Hampshire, and inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, has made it a personal mission to shore up the sagging interest of American teens in science and engineering.

When inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen launched his FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition two decades ago, he hoped to turn engineering into a contact sport and engineering students into superstars.

Brun, who is now an assistant professor at Princeton University, carried out this current work at MIT with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT's Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette «Peko» Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT.

Dean Kamen's new television program takes viewers on a behind - the - scenes look at cutting - edge research in hopes of inspiring a new generation of scientists, engineers and inventors

«There's been a long - held view that the best way to regrow severed nerves is to provide all sorts of matrix and growth proteins to coax repair,» said Ravi Bellamkonda, professor of biomedical engineering and Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.

Arguing that she was qualified for tenure and had been discriminated against because she was female, she appealed to the dean of the school of engineering, who organized a committee to examine the matter.