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MYRON TRIBUS
MYRON TRIBUS
Pages 349-354
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During World War II he was a captain in the US Air Force and worked as a design-development officer at Wright Field. After the war he joined General Electric and became a gas turbine design engineer, but decided to go back into academia and joined the faculty of UCLA, where he taught thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.
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Under Myron's leadership, the center's Self-Study Video Tape Program, whose packages were used by 1,310 students worldwide in 1975, became the Video Course Program, which by 1986 offered a library of 1,000 tapes spanning 50 courses and engaging 30,000 students worldwide in distance learning. Building on Myron's legacy, CAES, now called MIT Professional Education, offers online and in-classroom courses to more than 10,000 professionals in over 120 countries.
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In addition to his election to the NAE in 1973, he was selected for the Thurman Bane Award (1945) , given by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences to an officer or civilian of the USAF Air Research and Development Command for an outstanding achievement in aeronautical development; the Society of Automotive Engineers Wright Brothers Medal (1945)
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and Lou Andreas Tribus (in Milton Keynes, England) ; and grandchildren Rafi, Amanda, and Danielle Colman, and Danny and Margianne Shepetis.
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