Interview with Lydia Messmer: oral history.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Bordogna, Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania. School of Engineering and Applied Science.

University of Pennsylvania.

Engineering--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Engineering.

ENIAC (Computer).

University of Pennsylvania--Faculty.

University of Pennsylvania--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

2 videotapes (U-matic tapes): accompanying material in the manuscript section of the collection.

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Computing Facilities and Services. Multimedia Educational Technology Services. Records, 1969-1991

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, c[1987].

Biography/History:

Joseph Bordogna obtained both his B.S.(1955) and Ph.D. (1964) in Electric Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1964, and was appointed professor of Electrical Engineering in 1972. He became director of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1976 and dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science in 1981, serving until 1990. Before joining Penn, Bordogna worked as a research and development engineer with the RCA Corporation and the U.S. Army (1955-1958). He won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from Penn in 1967 and the George Washington Award as the nation's best engineering teacher from the American Society for Engineering Education in 1974. He served as past president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Society.

Summary:

The interviewee discussed the history of engineering education in the United States, engineering as a profession, the advent of system engineering, and the environment pollution. He also recalled the ENIAC project and his work as dean of the engineering school at the University of Pennsylvania.

Notes:

Produced by the Multimedia Educational Technology Services, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1346384610