Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- C. Stewart Gillmor
- Book Title
- Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and
- ISBN
- 9780804749145
- Subject Area
- Education, Biography & Autobiography
- Publication Name
- Fred Terman at Stanford : Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Subject
- Higher, Business, Science & Technology
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Item Weight
- 45.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Number of Pages
- 672 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804749140
ISBN-13
9780804749145
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6059086
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Fred Terman at Stanford : Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley
Publication Year
2004
Subject
Higher, Business, Science & Technology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
45.6 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-025166
Reviews
Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman—pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator—catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities, and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual leadership." —Dudley Herschbach,Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986, "This is more than the biography of an important contributor to the development of Stanford and "Silicon Valley"; it is a well-researched and detailed account of the development and maturation of one of the world's great universities." —Gordon Moore,Co-Founder, Intel Corp., "This is more than the biography of an important contributor to the development of Stanford and "Silicon Valley"; it is a well-researched and detailed account of the development and maturation of one of the world's great universities." --Gordon Moore,Co-Founder, Intel Corp., "This is more than the biography of an important contributor to the development of Stanford and "Silicon Valley"; it is a well-researched and detailed account of the development and maturation of one of the world's great universities." -Gordon Moore,Co-Founder, Intel Corp., "Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman—pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator—catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities, and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual leadership." —Dudley Herschbach,Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986, "Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman-pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator-catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities, and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual leadership." -Dudley Herschbach,Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986, "Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman--pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator--catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities, and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual leadership." --Dudley Herschbach,Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986, This is more than the biography of an important contributor to the development of Stanford and "Silicon Valley"; it is a well-researched and detailed account of the development and maturation of one of the world's great universities." —Gordon Moore,Co-Founder, Intel Corp.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
621.384/092 B
Synopsis
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., "Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman-pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator-catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual readership." -Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986, "Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman--pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator--catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual readership." --Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986
LC Classification Number
TK6545
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