Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The university consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. Bucknell was founded in 1846, and features programs in the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, engineering, management, education, and music, as well as programs and pre-professional advising that prepare students for study in law and medicine. It offers nearly 50 majors and over 60 minors. South of central Lewisburg, the 445-acre (1.80 km2) campus is along the west bank of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, at an elevation of 530 feet (160 m) above sea level.
Gong Li, also known in English as Li Gong, is CEO of Linaro Ltd, a British company headquartered in Cambridge, U.K., developing systems software for the Arm ecosystem. He was previously the Founder and CEO of Acadine Technologies, a systems software company specializing in mobile operating systems for mobile, wearable, and IoT devices. Acadine’s core product H5OS is a web-centric operating system that is primarily based on the open web standard HTML5. It is derived from Firefox OS, whose development Li had overseen as President of Mozilla Corporation.
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university (R1) in Newark, New Jersey. Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors especially Edward Weston, NJIT opened as Newark Technical School in 1885 with 88 students. The school grew into a classic engineering college – Newark College of Engineering – and then, with the addition of a School of Architecture in 1973, into a polytechnic university that now hosts five colleges and one school. As of fall 2019, the university enrolls about 11,500 students, 2,000 of whom live on campus.
URS Corporation was an engineering, design, and construction firm and a U.S. federal government contractor. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, URS was a full-service, global organization with offices located in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. URS was acquired by AECOM on October 17, 2014.
John Patrick "Pat" Crecine was an American educator and economist who served as President of Georgia Tech, Dean at Carnegie Mellon University, business executive, and professor. After receiving his early education at public schools in Lansing, Michigan, he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management, and master's and doctoral degrees in industrial administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. He also spent a year at the Stanford University School of Business.
David Andrew Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years, becoming a distinguished engineer at Google. He currently is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the RISC-V Foundation, and the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley.
Simon Ramo was an American engineer, businessman, and author. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). He also developed General Electric's electron microscope. He played prominent roles in the formation of two Fortune 500 companies, Ramo-Wooldridge and Bunker-Ramo.
Ralph Edward Gomory is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive. During that time, his research led to the creation of new areas of applied mathematics.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council, chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the President of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30, 2001, by President George W. Bush, was re-chartered by President Obama's April 21, 2010, Executive Order 13539, and was most recently re-chartered by President Trump's October 22, 2019, Executive Order 13895.
AECOM is an American multinational engineering firm.
Gary Lewis Crittenden is an American financial manager. He is currently an Executive Director of HGGC, where he also previously served as CEO and Chairman. He is also the former chairman of Citi Holdings. He has served on the boards of Staples Inc., Ryerson, Inc., TJX Companies, and Utah Capital Investment Corp. From 2000 to 2007, Crittenden was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of American Express, and from March 2007 to March 2009, he was the chief financial officer of Citigroup.
Richard Michael Cyert was an American economist, statistician and organizational theorist, who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, known from his seminal 1959 work "A behavioral theory of the firm" co-authored with and James G. March.
Elliot "Lee" Sander is the new President of Bombardier Transportation, Americas region effective November 19, 2018. Previously, he was Managing Director, Global Transportation and US Infrastructure at Hatch Ltd, a global multidisciplinary management, engineering, and development consultancy. He is also the Senior Independent Director of the board of National Express, a UK-based global operator of rail, bus, para-transit, and school bus services. Sander is Chairman Emeritus of the Regional Plan Association, Vice-Chairman of the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, and on the Board of the Leo Baeck Institute. Sander is the founder of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and Management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He also co-founded the Empire State Transportation Alliance (ESTA).
John M. Dionisio leads AECOM, an $8-billion global provider of professional technical and management support services, as Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2011. He served as chairman of the company's board of directors from 2011 to 2014, becoming executive chairman in 2014. He earned a master of science degree in civil engineering from New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
Global Linguist Solutions (GLS) is an American Professional Services contracting company headquartered in Herndon, VA. GLS is the main provider of interpreters, translators, and linguistic support to the U.S. military effort in Iraq.
Daniel E. Atkins III is the W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Informatics at University of Michigan.
Raymond J. Lane is an American business executive and strategist specializing in technology and finance. Lane is best known for assisting corporations with technology strategy, organizational development, team building, and sales and growth management.
The Oregon Graduate Center was a unique, private, postgraduate-only research university in Washington County, Oregon, on the west side of Portland, from 1963 to 2001. The Center was renamed the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1989. The Institute merged with the state medical college in 2001, and became the OGI School of Science and Engineering within the medical college. The School was discontinued in 2008 and its campus in 2014. Demolition of the campus buildings began February 2017.
Keith W. Brendley is a leading American authority on active protection systems, and serves as president of Artis, a company which provides high-technology systems to defense and commercial markets.
John R. Hall is an American businessman, and the chairman and CEO of Ashland Oil Inc. from 1981 to 1997.
