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Fred Terman at Stanford - Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley (Hardcover, New)
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Fred Terman at Stanford - Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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