Suh Nam-pyo

Suh Nam-pyo
Suh Nam-pyo
Hangul 서남표
Hanja 徐南杓
Revised Romanization Seo Nampyo
McCune–Reischauer Sǒ Nampyo

Suh Nam-pyo (born 22 April 1936) is the thirteenth and current president of KAIST. Suh began his appointment on 13 July 2006, succeeding the twelfth President Robert B. Laughlin.

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Personal life

Suh was born in Korea on 22 April 1936. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1954 to join his father who was teaching at Harvard University. He completed his high school education at Browne & Nichols School before entering MIT as a freshman in 1955. He was naturalized in 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] He married Young Suh , and had four daughters. He is now the grandfather of six children.

Career

Suh began his career at MIT in 1970, where he was the Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor, Director of the Park Center for Complex Systems (formerly the Manufacturing Institute), and the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for ten years from 1991 to 2001. He was also the Founding Director of the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (1977–1984), the Founder and Director of the MIT-Industry Polymer Processing Program (1973–1984), Head of the Mechanics and Material Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department (1975-1977), and a member of the Engineering Council of MIT (1980–1984 and 1991–2001). [2]

In October 1984, Suh took a leave of absence from MIT to accept a Presidential Appointment at the National Science Foundation where he was in charge of engineering. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to this position and the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment. During his tenure at NSF, he created a new direction for the Engineering Directorate and introduced a new organizational program structure for supporting engineering research in order to strengthen engineering education and research and "to insure that the United States will occupy a leadership position in engineering well into the 21st century." He returned to MIT in January 1988. [3][4]

Suh was named president of KAIST in June 2006, and was re-elected to his position on 14 July 2010. He is also the Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor, Emeritus, M.I.T. [5] During his tenure as the President of KAIST, he provided framework for two large-scale systems, On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV)[6] and Mobile Harbor.[7] However, there were concerns that his policies while president of KAIST encouraged "academic Darwinism" among students.[8][9] Suh was criticized for decisions to award honorary doctoral degrees to some of the board of trustees of KAIST, which could be seen by some as unethical as the board of trustees oversees Suh's role as the president of KAIST. Out of 16 honorary degrees awarded, at least seven were given to the former or present board members.[10][11][12]

Education

Honorary doctorates

  • Eng. D. (Hon.), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
  • L.H.D. (Hon.), University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA.
  • Tekn.Dr. hc, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  • D. Eng honoris causa, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • Doctor of Science and Technology (Hon), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Korean Wikipedia article dispute

The Korean Wikipedia's article on Suh was the subject of frequent vandalism and edit warring, allegedly by Suh himself or his secretary.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ "About President". KAIST Website. http://www.kaist.edu/as_intro/as_nt_prsdnt/as_pd_pfl/as_pd_pfl.html. Retrieved 2007-04-23. 
  2. ^ "MIT People Directory". http://web.mit.edu/pccs/people/suh.html. 
  3. ^ WALSH, John (14). "Nam P. Suh Named to Head NSF Engineering Program". Science 1134. doi:DOI:10.1126/science.225.4667.1134-a. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/225/4667/1134.1.full.pdf. Retrieved 26 July 2011. 
  4. ^ "Korean Economic Institute". http://www.keia.org/event.php?id=PRG10288. 
  5. ^ "MIT People Directory". http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=nam+pyo+suh. 
  6. ^ "Electric Veh icl es - World Economic Forum". http://www.weforum.org/content/electric-vehicles. 
  7. ^ "Introduction Mobile Harbor". http://www.mobileharbor.or.kr/mh_en1.html. 
  8. ^ Han, Sang-hee (2011-04-11). "KAIST thrown into panic". The Korea Times. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/04/117_85006.html. Retrieved 2011-08-03. 
  9. ^ Lee, Moon-young (2011-04-09). "KAIST president’s academic Darwinism leaves trail of suicides". The Hankyoreh. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/472204.html. Retrieved 2011-08-03. 
  10. ^ "경향닷컴 | Kyunghyang.com". News.khan.co.kr. 2011-04-13. http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201104130255115&code=940401. Retrieved 2011-07-27. 
  11. ^ "‘창조론자에 명예박사’ 카이스트의 자기모순? : 지역 : 사회 : 뉴스 : 한겨레" (in (Korean)). Hani.co.kr. http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/area/462909.html. Retrieved 2011-07-27. 
  12. ^ "KAIST's doctor honoris causa degree". Mathsci.kaist.ac.kr. http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~jinhyun/opinion.html. Retrieved 2011-07-27. 
  13. ^ Jeon, Jin-sik (2011-07-2011). "Uproar over selective Wikipedia editing by KAIST administration". The Hankyoreh. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/489260.html. Retrieved 2011-08-03. 
  14. ^ "위키피디아 ‘서남표 비판글’ 카이스트 직원이 몽땅 삭제" (in Korean). http://img.hani.co.kr/imgdb/resize/2011/0727/131168179511_20110727.JPG. Retrieved 2011-08-03. "The snapshot of the edits in the Korean version of Suh Nam-pyo (Source: The Korean version of this Hankyoreh article)" 

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