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Jack Kerrebrock, PhD 1956, Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor Emeritus, former head of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, and former Dean of School of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; known for work on nuclear rockets, space propulsion and power, magneto hydrodynamic generators, and fluid mechanics of ...
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) [a] is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States.The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
This page contains the name of presidents of the California Institute of Technology. Experimental physicist Lee A. DuBridge was the first to officially hold the title of President. Pages in category "Presidents of the California Institute of Technology"
Jean-Lou Chameau (born 1953) is a French civil engineer who served as the president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from 2013 to 2017, and California Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2013. In addition, he previously served as a Dean of Engineering and provost of the Georgia Institute of Technology. [2]
He moved California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2000, where he is the inaugural holder of the Fred Kavli Chair. At Caltech, Ooguri served as the deputy chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, equivalent of a vice dean of physical sciences.
Pietro Perona (born 3 September 1961) is an Italian-American educator and computer scientist.He is the Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering.
He served as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Dean of Engineering from 2007 to 2010, [10] the first Asian-born to be appointed dean of any of MIT's schools, and held MIT faculty appointments in Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Health Sciences and Technology.
Yannis Yortsos was born in 1951 in Athens, Greece. He attended the 1st Lyceum Venetokleion of Rhodes [10] and in 1968 he enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens, where he obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering, graduating first in his class in 1973. [11]