George Bugliarello, (May 20, 1927—February 18, 2011) was an Italian President Emeritus, Institute Professor and former chancellor of the

Polytechnic Institute of NYU The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United St ...

(formerly Polytechnic University).

Early life

George Bugliarello was born as Georgio Bugliarello-Wondrich to Spera Bugliarello-Wondrich and Colonel Federico Bugliarello Magnano di San Lio in

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, Italy. He studied engineering at the

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from which he graduated in 1951 with

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. He then completed his Master's degree at the

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in 1954 and five years later he obtained a Ph.D. from the

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in both hydrodynamics and civil engineering. He also has various honorary degrees from the

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, the

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, the

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and

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Career

George joined the faculty at

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in 1959 as an assistant professor of

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and

and worked there along with Tin-Kan Hung who was a professor of biomedical engineering until 1969. In 1964 he became the founding director of the

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program at CMU and five years later became

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of engineering at the

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. From 1969 to 1972 he was a Director of the

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. On October 15, 1973, he was inaugurated as the 13th President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York and served as such till 1994. Since 1987 he was a member of the

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and in 2003 he was elected as a Foreign Secretary of the NAE. In 1994 George had launched the Center for Technology and Financial Services at Polytechnic and from 1994 to 1997 he served as chairman of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council (BOSTID). From 1997 to 2011 he was an interim editor of ''The Bridge'' (the quarterly publication of the

), and was co-founder and co-editor of ''Technology in Society'' - An International Journal. George also served on several editorial advisory boards, had authored over 300 professional papers, and was the author, co-author or editor of numerous books. He was a lifetime member of the National Associate of The National Academies and served as chair of the National Academy of Engineering Council’s International Affairs Committee. George also was a chairman of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee, the Advisory Panel for Technology Transfer to the Middle East of the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy (COSEPP) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as chair of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council, and of the National Academies Megacities project for the Habitat II conference. He also served as chair of the National Academies steering committee on the Megacities. Other committee service included the U.S. National Academies-Russian Academy of Sciences Committee on Terrorism Confronting the U.S. and Russia and co-chairmanship of a joint Russian-American Task Force on Urban Security. Dr. Bugliarello’s international experience included consultantships abroad for OECD as a reviewer of the science policy of several countries, and for UNESCO, assignments as a specialist for the U.S. Department of State in

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and

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. He also held a NATO Senior Faculty Fellowship at

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, was a member on the U.S.-Egypt Joint Consultative Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, and member on the Scientific Committee of the Summer School on Environmental Dynamics in Venice. He had been the U.S. member of the Science for Stability Steering Committee, and of the Science for Peace Steering Committee, of the Scientific Affairs Division of

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. George Bugliarello had died of

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on February 18, 2011, in

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Fellowships and honors

*1967 -

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*1978 -

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*1984 -

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*1993 -

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He also was the founding member of the

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, a member of the

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and a Fellow of the

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, and the

Personal life

George Bugliarello was married to Virginia Upton Harding. Together they had two sons; David Wondrich and Nicholas Bugliarello as well as three grandchildren. Besides engineering, his other job was education in which he had a broad background ranging from fluid mechanics to computer languages, the environment, biomedical engineering and science policy.

Works

*History and Philosophy of Technology *Impact of Noise Pollution: A Socio-Technological Introduction

Remembrance

*George Bugliarello Prize (a grant of $5,000 is awarded biennially)

References

External links

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