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ANGEL G. JORDAN
Pages 234-241

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From page 235...
... In 1956 he and his wife Nieves came to the United States to pursue their PhDs in electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University, CMU)
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From page 236...
... he expanded areas in which the department was prominent; recognized and fostered new areas, such as computer-aided design, computer hardware, robotics, and optical electronics; initiated new interdisciplinary programs, such as magnetic technology and electronic materials; and propelled the department to a leading position in the country. Funded research support more than quadrupled and the level of enrollment and quality in both undergraduate and graduate programs increased substantially.
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From page 237...
... Murrin (NAE 1984) , in the formation of the Robotics Institute, encouraging participation from computer science, all engineering departments, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (this institute -- which offered the first PhD program in ­robotics -- is now the largest academic robotics research center anywhere)
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From page 238...
... The engineering college and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration collaborate in interdisciplinary programs in manufacturing and information technologies. He was a leading force in the revitalization of the Mellon Institute, one of the first industrially sponsored research institutes in the country before it merged in 1967 with Carnegie Institute of Technology to form Carnegie Mellon University.
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From page 239...
... He also played an important role in the formation and implementation of the Enterprise Corporation (and served on its board of directors) , the mission of which is to help start new companies in Greater Pittsburgh; participated in the conversion of the J & L Steel site to an industrial park, the Pittsburgh Technology Center, to help attract advanced technology companies to the city and to work with CMU; served on the Allegheny County Airport Advisory Commission for the construction and expansion of the Midfield Terminal; and worked with community groups in the area and around the state to foster economic development through education and technology.
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From page 240...
... He fostered research collaborations between CMU and the University of Pittsburgh in areas where the two institutions complement each other -- for example, in magnetic resonance and in cancer research between CMU's Biological Sciences and Computer Science Departments and Pitt's School of Medicine; and in biomedical informatics between CMU's Laboratory for Computational Linguistics and Center for Machine Translation and Pitt's Linguistics Department and School of Medicine. As ECE department head he reorganized the inter­ disciplinary Biomedical Engineering Program in the College of Engineering and served as acting chair, fostering collaborations between the program and Pitt's medical school and between the program and Allegheny Singer Research Institute (the basic and clinical research branch of Allegheny General Hospital)
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From page 241...
... In addition to his NAE election, he was a fellow of the IEEE and American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Physics Society and American Society of Engineering Education. He was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar, the 1987 Vectors Pittsburgh Man of the Year in Education, and selected to receive the Enterprise Award, presented by the Pittsburgh Business Times, "in recognition of his foresight and leadership in bringing the Software Engineering Institute to Pittsburgh." He was particularly pleased to have received honorary doctorate degrees from several higher education institutions in the country of his birth, including the Polytechnic University and Universidad Carlos III, both in Madrid.
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