John L. Anderson
John Leonard Anderson
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President of the National Academy of Engineering | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1945 |
Spouse(s) | Pat Anderson |
Children | two |
Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
Alma mater | University of Delaware University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Profession | President of the National Academy of Engineering |
John Leonard Anderson (born 1945).[1] is the current President of the National Academy of Engineering. He was a professor of chemical engineering, who served as the eighth president of Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to his appointment at IIT, Anderson held positions in academia at various institutions, serving both as the provost of Case Western Reserve University and the dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Biography[]
Anderson was born and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. He attended the University of Delaware where he received a B.S. in chemical engineering in 1967. He then went on to obtain an M.S. in chemical engineering, and completed a Ph.D. in 1971, also in chemical engineering, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2]
Anderson was part of Cornell University's faculty for five years, where he served as an assistant professor of chemical engineering. On 1 September 1976, Anderson left Cornell to begin a 28-year career at Carnegie Mellon. Starting out as an associate professor, he soon became director of the Biomedical Engineering Program. He continued to weave through the ranks at Carnegie Mellon before being conferred as a University Professor on 1 July 1994, the highest rank for a professor offered at that institution. Two years later, he was appointed dean of the College of Engineering. He was in that position for eight years before leaving the university on 1 April 2004 to become provost, university vice president, and professor of chemical engineering at Case Western Reserve.[3]
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to the understanding of colloidal hydrodynamics and membrane transport phenomena. He was also elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.[1]
Anderson served at Case Western Reserve from 2004 until he and the university president Edward M. Hundert lost March 2, 2006 no-confidence vote by the College of Arts and Sciences faculty, by 131–44 against Hundert and 97–68 against Anderson.[4] He then joined IIT, where he assumed the position as president and professor of chemical engineering on 1 August 2007.[3] He stepped down as president eight years later.
Awards and accomplishments[]
Anderson was appointed to National Science Board in 2014 and received the National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies in 2012.
He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and awarded the Acrivos Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1989.
Anderson was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1982-83.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "President's Bio". Illinois Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Anderson, John L. (January 22, 2008). "John L. Anderson CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ Inside Higher Ed, March 17, 2006
- 1945 births
- Living people
- American chemical engineers
- Carnegie Mellon University faculty
- Cornell University faculty
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- People from Wilmington, Delaware
- Presidents of Illinois Institute of Technology
- University of Delaware alumni
- Grainger College of Engineering alumni
- Engineers from Illinois