112:. The Robotics Institute is now the largest of its kind in the US); supported the formation of the interdisciplinary Magnetics Technology Center now Data Storage Systems Center (one of the few, and the largest center of its kind, in the US, funded by industry and government agencies); fostered close cooperation among departments and centers; and led the college to a dramatic increase in funded research. As faculty member, department head, and dean he participated in educational and search committees, inside and outside his department or college, and in university-wide committees with the central administration. In concert with the Development Office and the President, he participated in a development campaign for the college to raise funding for renovations, construction, equipment, and facilities. As dean of the engineering college and later as provost of CMU, he led the faculties of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration in putting together innovative curriculums in integrated manufacturing systems engineering and management to educate a new breed of manufacturing engineers and managers. He was a co-author of the report by the Business-Higher Education Forum entitled, "The New Manufacturing: America's Race to Automate."
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completed doctoral work in the period 1958-1990 while he was active in the department. He supervised many of them and launched them and numerous master students to illustrious careers. He attracted considerable funding from the government and industry. He taught many undergraduate and graduate courses. As a department head of ECE he extended areas in which this department was prominent; recognized and fostered new areas, such as computer-aided design, computer hardware, robotics, and optoelectronics; initiated new interdisciplinary programs, such as magnetic devices and electronic materials; and propelled the department to a leading position (in seven years the funded research support more than quadrupled and the level of enrollment and quality in both undergraduate and graduate programs increased substantially). He participated in the foundation of the
Department of Computer Science at CMU, one of the leading departments of its kind in the nation.
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Pittsburgh High Technology Council, he played an important role in the formation and implementation of the Enterprise Corporation (where he was on its board of directors), whose mission is to help start new companies in Greater Pittsburgh; participated in the conversion of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Site into an Industrial Park, the Pittsburgh High Technology Center, which attracted advanced technology companies to Pittsburgh, some of them to work closely with Carnegie Mellon University; served on the Allegheny County Airport Advisory Commission for the construction and expansion of the Mid-Field Terminal; and has worked with community groups in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania to foster economic development through education and technology. He was active in a number of community action groups and served on the board of directors (or trustees) of several non-profit corporations.
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of several not-for-profit organizations, and served on visiting committees or board of visitors of several universities. He is the recipient of a Doctor
Honoris Causa from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Pública de Navarra and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Spain. He is the recipient of an Enterprise Award presented by the Pittsburgh Business Times "in recognition of his foresight and leadership in bringing the Software Engineering Institute to Pittsburgh". He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the AAAS. He is a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar and was made the 1987 Vectors Pittsburgh Man of the Year in Education. He is a member of the American Physics Society. He was elected a
128:, funded by government agencies and industry, which then reported directly to the provost because of its university-wide scope. The engineering college and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, now the Tepper School of Business collaborate in interdisciplinary programs in manufacturing and information technologies. He was an active participant in development and fund raising and supported the President and the Development Office, now University Advancement, in a development campaigns for the university. He himself has been instrumental in attracting to CMU a number of endowed professorships and gifts and grants from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
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Allegheny Singer Research Institute (the basic and clinical research branch of Allegheny General Hospital). He continued fostering these collaborations as dean of engineering, and as provost he expanded them to include collaborations between Allegheny Singer Research Institute and CMU's science and engineering colleges, the Robotics Institute and the School of Computer Science. He served on the research committee of Allegheny Singer Research Institute and on its board of directors. He also served on the board of directors of the Allegheny Heart Institute (a division of Allegheny General Hospital) and chaired its Research Committee.
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Computational Linguistics and the Center for Machine Translation, now Department of Machine Learning, and Pitt's Linguistics Department and the Medical School. Under the umbrella of MPC, at the time the Mellon Pittsburgh Corporation, the two institutions formed the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, at the time one of the five supercomputing centers in the nation funded by the National Science Foundation. Because of its university-wide scope this center reported directly to the Provost.
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Department of Defense and industrial corporations. This institute, together with the School of Computer Science and the Engineering College at CMU, are acting as catalysts for spin-offs to attract a large number of software companies to Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. During two periods of transition in the Software Engineering Institute, he served as its acting director.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering he reorganized the interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering Program in the college of engineering and served as acting chairman fostering collaborations between the program and the medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and between
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