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Angel Jordan
University Professor Emeritus, RI/ECE/ISRI

Email address: ajordan@cs.cmu.edu
Office: WEH 4618
Phone: (412) 268-2590
Fax: 412-268-2338

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Biography

BORN

September 19, 1930, Pamplona, Spain; Naturalized American in 1966. ADDRESS: 5874 Aylesboro Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217. PHONE: (412) 421 2384 (Home); (412) 268 2590 (Office); (412) 268 5016 (Fax); email ajordan@cs.cmu.edu

EXPERIENCE

Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July 2003 - July 2004, Acting Director and CEO.

Carnegie Mellon University, 1999 - University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics, Emeritus.

Carnegie Mellon University, 1997 - 1999 Keithley University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics.

1990 - 1997 University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

1983 - 1991 Provost.

1987 - 1988 Acting Dean, Mellon College of Science.

1986 Acting Director, Software Engineering Institute.

1983 - 1985 Acting President, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research.

1979 - 1983 Dean, Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering college).

1972 - 1980 U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

1969 - 1979 Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

1976 - 1978 Chairman, Biomedical Engineering Program.

1966 - 1990 Professor, Dept of ECE.

1962 - 1966 Associate Professor, Dept of ECE.

1959 - 1962 Assistant Professor, Dept of ECE.

1958 - 1959 Research Fellow, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research.

1956 - 1958 Instructor, Dept of ECE.

OTHER INSTITUTIONS

1976 Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Health and Safety Executive, Sheffield, England.

1971 Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kampur, India.

Spain

1953 - 1956 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electronics, Naval Ordnance School, Madrid.

1954 - 1956 Senior Research Engineer, "Laboratorio y Taller de Investigación del Estado Mayor de la Armada"(LTIEMA), Madrid.

1952 - 1954 Research Engineer, LTIEMA.

EDUCATION

1959 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

1959 M.S., Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

1952 "Licenciado en Físicas", University of Zaragoza, Spain.

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES; HONORS AND AWARDS

Member, National Academy of Engineering. Corresponding Member, "Academia de Ingeniería, Spain. Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member, American Physical Society. Member, Sigma Xi; Tau Beta Pi; Eta Kappa Nu; Phi Kappa Phi. Doctor Honoris Causa, Polytechnic University of Madrid 1985. Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain, 2001. Distinguished Fulbright Scholar. "Premio Extaordinario" (Award for Exceptional Achievement), University of Zaragoza, Spain. NATO Senior Scientist Award. 1987 Vectors Pittsburgh Man of the year in Education. Pittsburgh Business Times Enterprise Award. Listed in: American Men and Women of Science; Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the East; Who's Who in Engineering; Who's Who in Technology Today; Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology.

CURRENT AND RECENT MEMBERSHIPS ON BOARDS OR COMMISSIONS

Member, Board of Directors of: Magnascreen Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Keithley Instruments Inc., Cleveland, Ohio (1982 - 1996); California Micro Devices Inc., Milpitas California (1986 - 2002); Pittsburgh High Technology Council (founder and first chairman); Enterprise Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1983 - 1989); Allegheny Heart Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1980 - 1987); Socintec ("Sociedad para la Innovación y Promoción de Nuevas Tecnologías., S.A."), Bilbao, Spain; Custom MOS Arrays, Inc., Milpitas, California (1983 - 1986); CORETECH (Council for Research and Technology), Washington D.C. (1986 - 1991); Pennsylvania Science and Engineering Foundation, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1981 - 1983). Member of: Strategic Advisory Board, Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View, California (1986 - 1989); Science and Technology Advisory Committee, Lord Corporation, Erie, Pennsylvania (1983 - 1990); Governor of Pennsylvania Task Force on Science and Technology (1986 - 1988); Task Force on Advanced Technology of the Economic Development Committee of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development (1983); Pennsylvania Academic Commission on Technological Development (1986 - 1990); Board of Directors of MPC Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1983 - 1991), Chairman (1983 - 1985) and (1987 - 1991); Board of Directors of Ben Franklin Technology Program of Western Pennsylvania (1988 - 1991), Co-chairman (1984 - 1988); Allegheny County Airport Advisory Committee (1986 - 1991).

RECENT MAJOR CONSULTING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Consultant to: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa; U.S.X. Corporation,Pittsburgh, Pa.; Fostin Capital Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa; "Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España", Madrid; Fundesco (Foundation for the advancement of the telecommunications in Spain), Madrid; GIMV Investment Company for Flanders, Antwerpen, Belgium; Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Health and Safety Executive, Sheffield, England. Member of Advisory/Visiting Committee or Board of: Arizona State University, Tennesee Technological University, Northwestern University, University of Alabama, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, University of Houston, Drexel University, University of California at Davis, Lehigh University, Rensselaer Politechnic Institute, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Chairman of International Panel of Advisors), Association of Engineering Colleges of Pennsylvania (Chairman 1982 - 1983). Member of: Committee on Engineering and Engineering Education in the Twenty-first Century, National Academy of Engineering (NAE); Committee on Membership, NAE (1989 - 1990); Electronics Engineering Peer Committee, NAE Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Elections, Chairman Twenty-seventh Election; Mobilization Committee of the Manufacturing Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences.

AUTHOR OF over 200 research publications and numerous research reports.

SPEAKER at numerous conferences, seminars, and symposia in the U.S.A. and Abroad. Supervisor of 32 Ph.D.s, 30 M.S.s, and numerous undergraduate student projects.

This section last updated - June 2006.

Research interests

Over the years, I have been interested in and have conducted research on Semiconductor Devices, Integrated Circuits, Thin Films, Materials Science and Engineering, Gas Sensing Devices and Systems, Environmental and Biomedical Instrumentation, Intelligent Sensors, Advanced Video Systems, Technological Innovation, Management of Technology, and Studies of the Computer Industry. More recently I have been interested in Robotics, Automation, and Software Engineering, focusing on Technological Change, Technology Transfer,and Outsourcing.

This section last updated - June 2006.

Additional Interests and Responsibilities

Software Technologies, Software Project and Process Management, Cyber Security, Software Outsourcing. Member of the Institute for Software Research, International.

Past Labs & Groups

Past Projects

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