Aeronautical engineer, professor, Dean of the College of Engineering, Provost for Professional Schools and Colleges, Vice Chancellor for Research and Academic Affairs, University of California, Berkeley, 1949 to 1983
By: George J. Maslach. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. College of Engineering -- History; University of California, Berkeley. Provost for Professional Schools and Colleges; University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty -- Interviews; University of California, Berkeley. Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research; Aeronautical engineers -- California -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: College of Engineering oral history series.
Description: Growing up in San Francisco, 1920-1937; SF Junior College, UC Berkeley, 1937-1942; MIT Radiation Laboratory, design and development of radar, 1942-1945; General Precision Laboratories, research engineer, 1945-1949; UC Berkeley: 1949-1963, research and teaching, Director, Institute of Engineering Research; 1963-1972, Dean of College of Engineering, Free Speech Movement, Third World Liberation Movement, articulation of community colleges and universities; 1972-1981, Provost for Professional Schools and Colleges; 1981-1983, Vice Chancellor for Research and Academic Affairs; discusses advising U.S. Dept. of Commerce, U.S. Navy, research grants, development of computer science, electronics.