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Eric A. Walker
Pages 280-285

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From page 281...
... As an educator, he served on the engineering faculty at three universities and, as a longtime force in the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) , he had an important impact on shaping American technical training over a period of more than four decades.
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From page 282...
... He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1932 and continued at Harvard for graduate work, receiving a master of science degree in business administration in 1933. By the time he received his doctorate in general science and engineering in 1935, he had been teaching mathematics at Tufts University for two years.
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From page 283...
... through nonpartisan support of Pennsylvania's governors and legislators; the creation of a College of Medicine and teaching hospital with a $50 million gift from the charitable trusts created by chocolate magnate Milton S Hershey; recruitment of an internationally distinguished faculty; and the establishment of a series of seventeen "Commonwealth Campuses" that enabled many Pennsylvanians to receive the first two years of a Penn State education while living at home.
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... Kennedy's science advisory committee that provided the blueprint for federal support of technical manpower training programs well into the l9S0s. Serving in these prominent leadership posts convinced Dr.
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... In 1970 President Richard Nixon awarcled him a White House Citation in recognition of his many career achievements, and the Department of Defense presented him with its Distinguished Public Service Mecial. He received honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Hofstra University, the University of Notre Dame, en c!
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