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Harold Chestnut
Harold Chestnut
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. Although he was not an academician, he was involved in education from his early years as an engineer, when he was both a student and an instructor in the well-known GE Advanced Engineering Program (Electrical Engineering Course)
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From the middle of World War II to the mid-1950s, working in the GE Aeronautics and Ordnance Department, he contributed to the design and development of various fire-control, aircraft, and guided-missile systems. He later managed the Systems Engineering and Analysis Branch of the GE Advanced Technology Laboratory, which eventually merged into the GE Corporate Research and Development Laboratory in Schenectady, where he was responsible for aspects of automatic control and information systems on many projects, including rapid transit and the Apollo mission.
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In 1981, the Honda Foundation awarded Hal the Honda Prize "for his achievements associated with the promotion of humanitarian use of technology and as a world leader in systems engineering that encompasses electrical, electronic, instrumentation, and automatic control." Hal used the Honda Prize stipend to create a small organization, the Foundation on Supplemental Ways to Increase International Stability (SWIIS) , and he remained passionately devoted to SWIIS for the rest of his life.
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Hal is survived by his wife of 57 years, Erma Ruth Callaway Chestnut. His other immediate survivors include son Peter Callaway Chestnut, wife Elizabeth Akiya Chestnut, and daughter Caitilin Asako Chestnut; son Harold Thomas Chestnut, wife Laura Ross Chestnut, and daughters Whitney
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Erma Ruth earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado and a master's degree in guidance and a doctorate in education administration, both from the State University of New York at Albany. She accompanied Hal on many of his trips around the world, especially when he held leadership positions in IFAC and IEEE.
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