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Standards for K-12 Engineering Education?

Appendix A

Committee Biographies

Robert M. White (NAE), chair, is University Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and consulting professor of
Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. From 1993 to 1999, he was head of
the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and from 1999 to 2004 director of the Data
Storage Systems Center at CMU. For his leadership as Under Secretary of Commerce for Tech-
nology under the first President Bush, he received the Public Service Award from IEEE. Prior to
his government service, Dr. White spent six years at Control Data Corporation (CDC), where, as
a member of the management board, he established and managed CDC’s participation in the re-
search consortium, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. In his early career,
he was an assistant professor of physics at Stanford University and principal scientist at Xerox
Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center for 13 years. The author of four books and many tech-
nical articles, Dr. White received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. from Stanford (both in
physics). Dr. White’s most recent involvement at the National Academies was as chair of the
Oversight Board for Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the
Small Business Innovation Research Program.

Todd R. Allen, president and founder of Allen Research, Technologies and Services, Inc.
(ARTS, Inc.), has worked in the health care industry with Johnson & Johnson (New Jersey) since
1994 as global manager of engineering, consumer products research, and development opera-
tions. Since 2003, he has established models and managed programs for assessing talents and
leadership for scientists and engineers at the Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. levels and candidates for the
international M.B.A. With more than 25 years of professional engineering practice in the petro-
chemical, nonwoven materials, and personal products industries and markets, he has also served
on many committees in government, academia, and professional organizations, such as the
National Science Foundation, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Association
of Engineering Societies, American Association of Community Colleges, American Society for
Engineering Education, and the National Urban League. A volunteer chef for the Philadelphia
Helping Hand Rescue Mission and a licensed Christian minister, he champions diversity and
inclusion as a strategy for national economic growth, national competitive advantage, and local
community development. Mr. Allen received a B.S. in engineering from Georgia Tech, an M.S.
in engineering from Tulane University, and an M.S. in engineering management from Syracuse
University.

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