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| Dr. Martin C.
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Purdue University,
West Lafayette,
IN 47907, USA |
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515-294-2042 |
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515-294-0565 |
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mjischke@purdue.edu |
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Term of Presidency
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1999-2001 |
| Science Degree: |
Dr. in Aeronautics and
Astronautics |
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President of Purdue University,
Indiana, USA |
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Dr. Martin Jischke became president
of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in August 2000.
Previously, he served nine years as president of Iowa State
University. Under Dr. Jischke's leadership, Iowa State University
enjoyed a period of substantial growth and development The quality
and size of the faculty, student body, staff, and administrative
leadership were improved. Research and economic development
programs were expanded.
Dr. Jischke went to Iowa State University from the University
of Missouri, Rolla, where he was chancellor from 1986 to 1991.
Prior to his tenure at the University of Missouri, he was dean
of the College of Engineering and interim president of the University
of Oklahoma. He is the author or co-author of 31 archival journal
publications and 21 major technical reports. He has served as
a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary
of Transportation. He was the 1998 chair of the National Association
of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGQ board
of directors and is a member of the board of the American Council
on Education and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
He has received the Centennial Medallion from the American Society
of Engineering Education and is a fellow of the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Jischke is a member of the
Founding and Organizing Committees of GCHERA. He earned his
B.S. in physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and
his graduate degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Founded in 1869, Purdue University is a public, land-grant research
university with an international reputation for academic excellence.
Its programs include engineering, agriculture, science, veterinary
medicine, management, technology, consumer and family services,
education, liberal arts, pharmacy, nursing, and health sciences.
Purdue's all campus enrollment exceeds 67,000,12 percent of
whom are graduate students. Its enrollment of international
students is the largest of any U.S. public educational institution.
Faculty and staff exceed 14,000, and the annual budget is more
than $1.1 billion. |
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