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Gordon S. Brown
Gordon S. Brown
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FRANCIS REINT] ES SUBMITTED BY THE NAE HOME SECRETARY GORDON STANLEY BROWN ranks high among the great contributors to engineering and engineering education in the twentieth century.
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His vision of postwar undergraduate engineering education was that it should emphasize engineering principles and be based on a solid foundation of science and mathematics. Engineering science rather than stateof-the-art engineering practice was his model for post World War II engineering education.
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During the war years, he was a consultant to the National Defense Research Council and the War Department. For these services he was awarded the President's Certificate of Merit and a certificate for Distinguished Service to Naval Ordnance Development.
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. Accolades continued as the AIEE and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected him a fellow, and as he received honorary degrees from Purdue and Southern Methodist universities, Dartmouth College, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Technical University of Denmark.
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Gordon Brown died on August 23, 1996, a week short of his eighty-ninth birthday. He was a man who was deeply devoted to his family, to his wife, Jean, their son and daughter, and their grandchildren.
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