Barrett Hazeltine

Barrett Hazeltine (born November 7, 1931) is a Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown University. He has published papers and books on digital logic, electronic circuit design, and small-scale technologies. He is widely regarded as the founder of management education at Brown..
==Early life and Education==
Hazeltine was born in Paris in 1931. When he was three years old, his family moved to Hoboken, New Jersey, where his father, an inventor, got a teaching job at the Stevens Institute.
Barrett studied engineering at Princeton University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1953 and then a Master of Science in 1956. He went on to obtain a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1962.
==Teaching Career==
Hazeltine arrived at Brown University in 1959 for a temporary teaching position, before becoming a professor of electrical engineering. In 1965, Hazeltine was among the first members of the Ford Foundation's Faculty Residencies in Engineering Practice programme, during which he conducted research at the Space and Information Systems Division of the Raytheon Company. Between 1972 and 1992, Hazeltine served a 20-year term as an Associate Dean of the College.
Over his tenure at Brown, Hazeltine undertook numerous visiting professorships at universities throughout Africa. Notably, he taught and helped to found the engineering programs at the University of Zambia (1970, 1976), University of Malawi (1980-1981, 1983-1984, 1988-1989), University of Botswana (1993), and Africa University in Zimbabwe. Hazeltine was also the Robert Foster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Baylor University in 1971-1972.
At Brown, Hazeltine is known as one of the founders of the University's business and entrepreneurship offerings, having started the popular class "Management of Industrial and Non-Profit Organizations" (ENGN0090) and its more advanced version "Managerial Decision Making" (ENGN0900). The also helped develop the "Organizational Behavior and Management" concentration program at Brown in the early 1970's.
Despite having officially retired twice, Hazeltine continues to teach at Brown as well as supervise research projects.
==Prizes and Awards==
Between 1972 and 1984, Hazeltine won the Excellence in Teaching prize from the senior class for 12 consecutive years, after which it was renamed The Barrett Hazeltine Award of Excellence in Teaching in 1985. He proceeded to win the award again in 1990.
He is also the namesake of the Barrett Hazeltine Prize in Entrepreneurial Mentorship and the Hazeltine Innovation in Engineering Award.
His other awards and honors include:
* Wriston Fellowship from Brown University (1972)
* Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University (1991)
* Honorary Doctorate from Stony Brook University (1988)
* Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Malawi (1988)
* Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal from Brown University Faculty (2015)
* Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2021)
* Honorary Doctorate from the University of Johannesburg (2023)
==Personal Life==
Hazeltine is married to Mary Frances, with whom he has 3 children
==Notable works==
* Hazeltine, Barrett, and Christopher Bull. Field Guide to Appropriate Technology. Amsterdam ; Boston, Academic, 2003
* Hazeltine, Barrett, and Christopher Bull. Appropriate Technology : Tools, Choices and Implications. San Diego, Academic Press, 1999.
* Hazeltine, Barrett. Introduction to Electronic Circuits and Applications. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1 Mar. 1980.
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