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The Legacy of George Bugliarello: A Review of His Vision and Contributions--Mohammad Karamouz
The Legacy of George Bugliarello: A Review of His Vision and Contributions--Mohammad Karamouz
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George Bugliarello's interests and expertise transcended many disciplines -- civil engineering, biomedical engineering, urban development, science policy, water resources, computer languages, fluid mechanics, and environmental science. His vision of the role of science, innovation, and education, coupled with a passion for turning his vision into reality, is reflected in today's urban communities, forged through academic and industry interactions in ways that spur economic growth and societal wellbeing while respecting the quality of human life and the environment.
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. Next is a review of his scientific, engineering, and professional contributions, including the biosoma, his rethinking of urbanization and engineering for a sustainable future, urban security and adaptive response, and the urban knowledge park, exemplified by Brooklyn's MetroTech.
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He also served on several editorial advisory boards, authored over 300 professional papers, and was the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Engineering Education, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering Society, and a founding fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
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The success of MetroTech was such that it became the catalyst that George believed would transform downtown Brooklyn into the vibrant place that it is today. In 1994, he was honored with the New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology.
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. Effective policies are critical for addressing urban sustainability, and must be politically realistic in deciding on appropriate balances, such as centralized versus decentralized systems, "soft" versus "hard"
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. Perspectives on Urban Security and Adaptive Response In the United States, cities of over 100,000 inhabitants account for 80 percent of the country's population, which makes them major potential targets of terrorist attacks -- on their infrastructures, government installations and operations, business sites, housing, chemical plants, and people -- because all of their systems are interdependent and the vulnerability of one system can have a major impact on others (Bugliarello 2003)
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. FIGURE 2 Excerpt from Brooklyn Progress, September 1990 , September 1990 FIGURE 2 Excerpt from Brooklyn Progress
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But a very important aspect of him, known primarily to his colleagues, was his gentlemanly, thoughtful, and sensitive approach to people. One illustrative small personal anecdote: After a lengthy session with him and his colleagues at Polytechnic University about possible collaborative projects connected to homeland security involving Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, George insisted on escorting me to the subway to make sure I caught the correct subway train to Penn Station to catch the Amtrak train to Albany-Rensselaer!
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In George's role as foreign secretary of the National Academy of Engineering, his lifelong international perspective on how science and engineering can shape and improve the human condition revealed him to be the quintessential renaissance engineer/statesman. His passion for Poly and for creating MetroTech was a realization of his lifelong vision of how cities could be reshaped for the future.
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He was an exceptional visionary with an unusual gift for pragmatic approaches in solving societal problems. There was no boundary to his capacity for understanding complex issues and contributing realistic solutions.
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For him, engineering was the art of creating technology solutions and systems as the processes that human societies devise to modify or preserve nature for their
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, the fast-expanding graduate program in financial engineering, and the CEE research program, which was initiated with his personal commitment and support. George's vision of environmentally sustainable urban development was greatly inspired by his deep global understanding of rising societal needs in a wide diversity of cultural contexts, his assessment of the critical role of technology innovation in shaping the future of cities and enhancing their resiliency, and his concrete grasp of current infrastructure needs to support renovation and extension of their urban systems.
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When I first became dean, we had our regular ABET accreditation visit only a month later. With no hotels in Brooklyn at the time, the visiting team was housed in Manhattan.
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MetroTech not only gave Poly an urban campus but was the catalyst for the rebirth of downtown Brooklyn. Without the success of MetroTech there would be no waterfront development (including DUMBO1)
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The presentation document concludes: "The first major initiative resulting from these agreements will enable civil engineering students in Italy, who have completed the fourth year of the five-year Laurea degree, to attend the Polytechnic University for their fifth year. With this arrangement, they will receive both the Laurea degree from the Italian university and the master's degree from the Polytechnic University.
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George was the NAE foreign secretary from July 1, 2003, until his death and the NAE is greatly indebted to him for his outstanding service in international affairs and his wise counsel on all facets of engineering and technology as a member of the NAE Council. His election as foreign secretary was a stroke of insight on the part of the NAE membership, because he brought enormous experience to the post based on many years of participation in both UN and National Research Council international study delegations.
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I still do. CLOSING REMARKS The legacy and contributions of George Bugliarello are far-reaching and influential in many disciplines such as civil engineering, biomedical engineering, urban development, science policy, water resources, and environmental science.
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1997. Urban knowledge parks: The example of Metrotech in New York City.
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2004. Urban knowledge parks, knowledge cities and urban sustainability.
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It encompasses two sections: one located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another that continues east from the Manhattan Bridge to the Vinegar Hill area. MetroTech: the Metropolitan Technology Center, a university-industry park in Brooklyn, conceived and catalyzed by George Bugliarello and Polytechnic University in 1975.
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