Susan Hackwood is the

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of the

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(CCST). She is a

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and

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of electrical engineering credited for inventing the concept of

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with

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in 1981. Hackwood is married to Gerardo Beni. They have two children, Catherine and Juliet. Notably, both children received Ph.Ds before their 21st birthday.

Education

In 1976, Hackwood was admitted to the

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with Honours in

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in Leicester, UK after three years of studies (the norm for

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s in the UK). She received her PhD in 'Solid State Ionics' from DeMontfort in 1979, having also worked at

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and Chalmers Institute of Technology in

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Career

Hackwood is currently a professor of electrical engineering at

UC Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

, and former

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of the UC Riverside College of Engineering. She has been the executive director of CCST since 1995. Prior to moving to UC Riverside in 1990, she was a professor at

UC Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the Un ...

and also worked at

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, in the Robotics Research department. She cofounded the Journal of Robotic Systems in 1984 with Gerardo Beni.

References

External links

Hackwood's homepage at CCST

Hackwood's homepage at UCR
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hackwood, Susan American electrical engineers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Riverside faculty Engineers from California