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Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley

Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley

Gillmor, C. Stewart

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0804749140
ISBN13: 9780804749145
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Sep 22 2004
Pages: 672
Weight: 2.95
Height: 1.66 Width: 7.32 Depth: 10.28
Language: English

Fred Terman was an outstanding American engineer, teacher, entrepreneur, and manager. Terman was also deeply devoted to his students, to engineering, and to Stanford University. This biography focuses on the weave of personality and place across time--it examines Terman as a Stanford faculty child growing up at an ambitious little regional university; as a young electrical engineering professor in the heady 1920s and the doldrums of the Depression; as an engineering manager and educator in the midst of large-scale wartime research projects and the postwar rise of Big Science and Big Engineering; as a university administrator on the razor's edge of great expectations and fragile budgets; and, finally, as a senior statesman of engineering education. The first doctoral student of Vannevar Bush at M.I.T., Terman was himself a prodigious teacher and adviser to many, including William Hewlett and David Packard. Terman was widely hailed as the magnet that drew talent together into what became known as Silicon Valley.

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