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APPENDIX
CBiographical Infonnation on
Committee Members
THOMAS D. BARROW, the former chairman of Kennecott Copper
Company, was elected vice chairman of the Standard Oil Company Ohio,
now B.P. America in 1981. He managed Sohio's oil and natural gas explo-
ration and production activities plus the worldwide minerals business of
Kennecott Corporation until his retirement in 1985. His career as a geolo-
gist began in 1951 at Humble Oil and Refining Company (Exxon) where he
served in various capacities, including president. He later became senior
vice president of Exxon Corporation and member of the board (1972-1978~.
His responsibilities covered worldwide exploration and production activi-
ties, mining and synthetic fuels, science and technology, and corporate plan-
ning. Dr. Barrow is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a
trustee of Stanford University and Baylor College of Medicine, and a former
trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the American
Museum of Natural History. He received his Ph.D. in geology from
Stanford University.
W. DALE COMPTON is Lillian M. Gilbreth Distinguished Professor of
Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. Prior to his appointment at
Purdue in 1988, he served as senior fellow at the National Academy of
Engineering (1987-1988~. In 1973, after three years service as director of
the Ford Motor Company's chemical and physical science division, Dr.
Compton was appointed Ford's vice president for research, a position he
held until 1987. Before joining Ford, he was professor of physics and direc-
tor of the Coordinated Science Lab at the University of Illinois. Dr.
Compton has worked as a consultant for both private and federal research
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organizations. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of
the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Compton received his Ph.D. in
physics from the University of Illinois.
ELMER L. GADEN, JR. has served as Wills Johnson Professor of
Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia since 1979. Before join-
ing the faculty at the University of Virginia, Dr. Gaden was dean of the
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Business Administration at the
University of Vermont (1975-1979), and a faculty member at Columbia
University (1949-1974), where he taught chemical engineering, bioengi-
neering, and history. Dr. Gaden was the founding editor of the international
research journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering and served as editor for
25 years (1959-1983~. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering. Dr. Gaden received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
Columbia University.
DONALD L. HAMMOND recently retired as director of Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories after 29 years at the company. From 1983 to 1986 he started
the HP European Research Center in Bristol, England, focused on computer
science and data communication. As one of the founders of HP
Laboratories in 1966, he directed the Physical Electronics Laboratory and
the Physics Research Center. He managed production and development of
quartz crystal devices at Hewlett-Packard and scientific electronic products.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His background is in
physics with B.S. and M.S. degrees from Colorado State University. He has
received honorary doctorates from the University of Bristol and Colorado
State University.
WILLIAM G. HOWARD, JR. is a senior fellow at the National Academy
of Engineering, currently on leave from Motorola, Inc. where he served
most recently as senior vice president and director of research and develop-
ment. His focus at the Academy is in the area of technology commercializa-
tion in private industry. He has served on numerous government aIld private
advisory panels and has served as chairman of the U.S. Department of
Commerce's Semiconductor Technology Advisory Committee and currently
chairs a working group of the Department of Defense's advisory group on
electron devices. Before joining Motorola in 1969, Dr. Howard was an
assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the
University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate. He is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering and has held a variety of
positions in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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NATIONAL INTERESTS IN AN AGE OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY
TREVOR O. JONES is chairman of the board of Libbey-Owens-Ford
Company and also president of the International Development Corporation
(IDC) of Cleveland, Ohio. A native of Maidstone, England, Mr. Jones start-
ed his U.S. engineering career with General Motors in 1959, where he spent
19 years working in aerospace activities and in 1970 was charged with
bringing aerospace technology to automotive safety and electronic systems.
He became director of GM's newly organized Automotive Electronic
Control Systems group in 1970, was appointed director of Advance Product
Engineering in 1972, and became director of GM's Proving Grounds in
1974. Mr. Jones was employed by TRW in a number of executive positions,
including vice president of engineering TRW Automotive Worldwide, group
vice president and general manager of TRW's Transportation Electrical and
Electronics Group, and group vice president, Stategic Planning, Business
Development, and Marketing for the Automotive Sector.
He is a fellow of the British Institute of Electrical Engineers, the
American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society of
Automotive Engineers, Inc., and a member of the National Academy of
Engineering. He has received many awards for his work in automobile
electronics and safety and has been cited many times for his leadership in
the application of electronics to the automobile. Mr. Jones completed his
formal engineering education in the United Kingdom at Aston Technical
College and Liverpool Technical College.
THOMAS H. LEE is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and president of the Center for
Quality Management. In 1948 he began work with General Electric where,
over the course of 32 years, he held numerous posts from senior research
engineer (1955-1959) to staff executive and chief technologist
(1978-1980~. In 1980 he left General Electric to become director of the
Electric Power Systems Engineering Laboratory and Philip Sporn Professor
of Energy Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1984
he became director of the International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, for a three-year term. He is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Lee received his doctorate in
electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
MILTON LEVENSON, recently retired, was executive engineer and spe-
cial assistant to the president at Bechtel Power Corporation since 1981. In
1943 he began work as junior engineer and has -since worked at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, the U.S. Army Manhattan Engineering District, and
held progressively advanced positions at Argonne National Laboratory, end-
ing as associate laboratory director of energy and environment. From 1973
to 1981, he was the director of the nuclear division at the Electric Power
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Research Institute. He is past president of the American Nuclear Society, a
member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has served on U.S.
technical delegations to four Geneva conferences on peaceful use of atomic
energy. Mr. Levenson received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineer-
ing from the University of Minneapolis and an MBA from the University of
Chicago.
PETER W. LIKINS is president of Lehigh University. Dr. Likins received
his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics and his bachelor's degree in civil engi-
neering from Stanford University, with an intervening master's degree from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and experience as a development
engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of
Technology. He served on the engineering faculty at the University of
California, Los Angeles, from 1964 to 1976, when he became professor and
dean at Columbia University. From 1980 to 1982 he was provost at
Columbia; then he moved to his present position. He holds honorary
degrees from Lafayette and Moravian Colleges and the Medical College of
Pennsylvania. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a
member of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology.
EDWARD A. MASON, an independent consultant, was vice president of
research at Amoco Corporation from 1977 until his recent retirement in
1989. He started his engineering career as assistant professor of chemical
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became professor
of nuclear engineering and head of the department of nuclear engineering in
1971. From 1953 to 1957 he was director of research at tonics,
Incorporated. During subsequent periodic leaves of absence from MIT, he
worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a senior design engineer,
the National Science Foundation's Euratom Research Center, and the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission as commissioner from 1975 to 1977. He is
a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of numerous profes-
sional societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American
Chemical Society, the American Insitute of Chemical Engineers, and the
Industrial Research Institute. He received his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
BRIAN H. ROWE has served as senior vice president, GE Aircraft
Engines, with General Electric Company since 1979. He started his career
with GE in 1957, after having worked at the deHavilland Engine Company
in England. He has worked in design engineering, marketing, engineering
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production, and has held senior management positions in commercial airline
and aircraft engine engineering divisions. He is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society of England.
He holds seven patents. Mr. Rowe received his degree in mechanical engi-
neering from Kings College, Durham University in England.
WILLIAM J. SPENCER became president and chief executive officer of
Sematech in November 199O5 having served as group vice president for cor-
porate research at Xerox Corporation since 1986. Before he joined Xerox in
1981, Dr. Spencer held senior management positions in R&D at AT&T. His
interests include the management of technology, innovation, global indus-
tries, and engineering education. A member of the National Academy of
Engineering, he has served on engineering advisory panels at Columbia
University, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, the
University of Illinois, and Princeton University. Dr. Spencer received his
Ph.D. in physics from Kansas State University.
WILLIS S. WHITE, JR. has been with the American Electric Power
System since graduation from college in 1948. In 1976 he became chair-
man of the board of American Electric Power Company and its chief execu-
tive officer. He is also chairman and chief executive officer of each of
AEP's operating companies and subsidiaries, and is president of Ohio
Valley Electric Corporation, serving the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr.
White is chairman of the Ohio Center's board of trustees, trustee at Battelle
Memorial Institute, and director for the Bank of New York. He is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering. Mr. White is an electrical engi-
neering graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and
holder of a master's degree in industrial management from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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