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Joseph Mayo Pettit
Joseph Mayo Pettit
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From 1942 to 1945 Pettit served with the National Defense Research Committee's Radio Research Laboratory at H.arvard University. The stab of this laboratory, which was cle285
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Funds for expansion became available, and Pettit was able to secure major grants from both the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation to make this expansion possible. Major new buildings, inclu(ling the McCullough Building for electrical engineering and the newly formed Center for.Materials Research, the Duran(1 Builcling for the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and the Space Sciences Program, and
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Educational innovation was of greatest interest to Joe Pettit, and he was un(loubteclly the foremost national pioneer in the development of televisect instruction as an adjunct to the graduate program. He introduced a radically flexible undergraduate academic program, and his use of student ratings of instructors, although not a new Plea, was nevertheless introduced anct developed to new levels.
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The link between an elective graduate program and suitable research opportunities tract been firmly established in Joe's Stanford experience. With his strong encouragement, research expenditures increased more than eight hundrec!
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The goal was in fact met in June 1986, prompting him to remark, "What we have set out to do we have accomplished, like good Georgia Tech engineers within budget and ahead of schedule." It is perhaps illustrative of the full range of Joe Pettit's interests and administration that, in its centennial year observance, the institute established in his honor an endowed chair, a graduate fellowship program, and an athletic scholarship. Although he felt secure in his plans and actions in the academic domain, his background was not always as complete as he might have likes]
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