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JOSEPH E. ROWE
Pages 272-277

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From page 273...
... ROWE, a leading pioneer in the development of microwave electron tube and solid state device technologies, and former vice president and chief scientist at Harris Corporation, Gould Corporation, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass, as well as former provost and dean of engineering at Case Western Reserve University and chair of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan, died on October 23, 2002, at the age of 75. Joe was born in Detroit on June 4, 1927, the son of an auto worker who emigrated from Cornwall, England, in 1920.
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From page 274...
... While at Michigan, Joe literally "wrote the book" on microwave electron tube devices and won the university's prestigious Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1970 for his outstanding research and teaching and for mentoring scores of fine engineers. He served as director of the Electron Physics Laboratory from 1958 to 1968, where he managed and developed research programs in microwave electron tube devices, gaseous plasmas, and semiconductors.
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From page 275...
... From 1980 to 1993, Joe worked as vice president and chief scientist, first at Harris in Melbourne, Florida, next at Gould Corporation in Chicago, and finally at Pittsburgh Plate Glass in Pittsburgh. For these three Fortune 500 companies, Joe was the perfect hire because he was able to apply his vast detailed academic expertise to their practical commercial engineering problems.
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From page 276...
... Perhaps most revealingly, official university records disclosed that, of the 324 home football games that Michigan played between 1946 and 2000, Joe attended approximately 300 -- despite living in Cleveland, Florida, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Dayton during almost half of those years. Right to the end, Joe Rowe was a Michigan man, through and through.
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From page 277...
... It would be a great understatement to say that Joe Rowe is sorely missed, in all the many places where he plied his talents, by his family and friends, and of course most of all by his loving wife, Anne, and their children. Additional survivors included his father, Joseph, who succeeded him in death in 2005; his brother, Donald; and four grandchildren -- Rachel, Alethea, Kyla, and Aaron.
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