Fred Terman at Stanford

Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

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.Throughout his life, Fred Terman was constant in his belief that quality could be quantified, and he was adamant that a university's success must, in the end, be measured by the success of its students. Fred Terman's formula for success, both in life and for his university, was fairly simple: hard work and persistence, systematic dedication to clearly articulated goals, accountability, and not settling for mediocre work in yourself or in others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-09-22
Mått:178 x 254 x 48 mm
Vikt:1 338 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:672
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9780804749145

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C. Stewart Gillmor is Professor of History and Science at Wesleyan University.

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"Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman-pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator-catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities, and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual leadership." -Dudley Herschbach,Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986 "This is more than the biography of an important contributor to the development of Stanford and "Silicon Valley"; it is a well-researched and detailed account of the development and maturation of one of the world's great universities." -Gordon Moore,Co-Founder, Intel Corp.

Innehållsförteckning

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Forewordiii Prefaceiii @toc2:Introduction000 Chapter 1: California Boy, 19001924000 Chapter 2: The Stanford Professor, 19251937000 Chapter 3: Building Radio and Electronics, 19371941000 Chapter 4: The Radio War, 19411946000 Chapter 5: Jump Starting Engineering at Stanford,19421949000 Chapter 6: From Building a Discipline to Buildinga University, 19491959000 Chapter 7: Raising Steeples at Stanford, 19581965000 Chapter 8: "If I had my life to live over again, I would play the same record," 19651982000 Epilogue000 @toc4:Appendix 1 Terman"s salary, 19251965 Appendix 2 Patents, 19301947 Appendix 3 Ham Radio Operators at RRL Appendix 4 Stanford in the rankings, 19561965 Notes000 Bibliography000 Photographs appear after page xxx Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982, Radio engineers California Stanford Biography, Stanford University, Dept, of Electrical Engineering