The Ohio State University,commonly called Ohio State or OSU,is a public land-grant research university in Columbus,Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio,Ohio State was founded in 1870 as the state's land-grant university and the ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity". The university's endowment of $7.4 billion in 2023 is among the largest in the world.
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis,Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the seventh-largest engineering college in the nation for 2023. Undergraduate enrollment for all colleges combined averages over 32,000 while an additional 5,000 students are engaged in post-graduate coursework through the university. In 2023,over 37,000 students were enrolled at OSU - making it the largest university in the state. Out-of-state students typically make up over one-quarter of the student body. Since its founding,over 272,000 students have graduated from OSU. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity".
The School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,US is a school for computer science established in 1988. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs over the decades. As of 2022 U.S. News &World Report ranks the graduate program as tied for second with Stanford University and University of California,Berkeley. It is ranked second in the United States on Computer Science Open Rankings,which combines scores from multiple independent rankings.
Kristina M. Johnson is an American business executive and academic administrator.
Manuela Maria Veloso is the Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research &Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University,where she was previously Head of the Machine Learning Department. She served as president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) until 2014,and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Helen Murray Free was an American chemist and educator. She is most known for revolutionizing many in vitro self-testing systems for diabetes and other diseases while working at Miles Laboratories. The tests are still marketed today with blood tests as Ascensia Diabetes Care,and urine tests under Siemens Healthineers. The pioneering dip-and-read strips,allowed for testing to be more convenient and efficient,enabling doctors and patients to be less reliable to laboratories for results.
Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American bioengineer,materials scientist,and academic. On 1 January 2018,he was inaugurated as the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU),where he is also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor. Subra Suresh plans on stepping down from his role as the President of NTU at the end of 2022. He was the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),and Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Barack Obama,where he served from 2010 to 2013. He was the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2013 to 2017.
Cristina H. Amon is a mechanical engineer,academic administrator and was the 13th dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. She was the Faculty's first female dean. Prior to her appointment at the University of Toronto in 2006,she was the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor and director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University.
Professor Elsie A. B. Effah Kaufmann is a Ghanaian academic,academic administrator,biomedical engineer,and current host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. In December 2020,Elsie Kaufmann was appointed an associate professor at the University of Ghana,and was appointed the Dean of the School of Engineering Sciences on 1 August 2022.
Watts Hall was a building on the Ohio State University campus,in Columbus,Ohio,United States. The building was named after Arthur S. Watts,a former head of the Department of Ceramic Engineering,and former president of the American Ceramic Society. It housed the OSU Department of Materials Science and Engineering before being demolished in 2022 to make way for the second phase of the BMEC project.
Dorothy Alice Cornelius was a Registered Nurse from Ohio who served in executive and in leadership positions in nursing. Cornelius was the only person to be president of the American Nurses Association,the International Council of Nurses,and the American Journal of Nursing Company.
Donna Riley is currently the Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Riley is known for her work in challenging traditional notions of engineering education. Riley has worked to incorporate a intersectional approach to engineering and uses STS as a framework for understanding how engineering affects society in a social and political way.
Betty Lise Anderson is an American electrical engineer,working in the field of photonics. She has been a professor at the Ohio State University since 1990. She is a Fellow of SPIE,and a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Anne Louise Stevens is an American mechanical and materials engineer. She is currently a non-executive director at Anglo American plc. She was the CEO of GKN Aerospace until it was acquired by Melrose plc in a hostile takeover in 2018. Previously,Stevens was chairman of the Board of Directors,President and chief executive officer of Carpenter Technology Corporation and vice president of North America Vehicle Operations for Ford Motor Company.
Rebecca D. Jackson is a medical researcher,medical practitioner and professor of endocrinology,diabetes and metabolism. Her research has been significant in the understanding and treatment of osteoporosis. She also researches the opioid crisis in Ohio.
Lisa Marie Spellman Porter is an American materials scientist who is a Professor of Materials Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She works on new ways to process and characterise electronic materials. She has previously served as president of the American Vacuum Society.
Mars Guy Fontana was a corrosion engineer,professor of Metallurgical Engineering at Ohio State University. He was born April 6,1910,in Iron Mountain,Michigan,and died February 29,1988.
Kristen P. Constant is an American engineer. She is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Iowa State University and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mary Grace Burke is an American materials scientist who is an emeritus professor at the University of Manchester. She was awarded the 2020 International Metallographic Society Henry Clifton Sorby Award and is the President of the Royal Microscopical Society.
Margaret J. Andrew was an American experimental engineer. Born in Dayton,Ohio,she had a focus in science and technology. Her work as an experimental engineer lead to two patents for improving dishwashing and clothes washing appliances. In addition to her professional endeavors,Margaret had a passion for fine cooking and cuisine.
