ANGEL JORDAN

Angel Jordan is a University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics Emeritus and Provost Emeritus of Carnegie Mellon. He was Provost of CMU in 1983-1990, Dean of Engineering in 1979-1983, Head of Electrical Engineering in 1969-1979. He has been a faculty member in Electrical Engineering since 1959. (Assistant Professor 1959-1962; Associate Professor 1962-1965; Professor since 1965.) U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 1972-1980; Keithley University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics in 1997-1999. He was a Founder of the Software Engineering Institute, where he has served as Acting Director twice, and was a Founder of the Robotics Institute. He holds a degree Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas from the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1959).   
Over the years, he has been interested and has conducted research on Semiconductor Devices, Integrated Circuits, Thin Films, Environmental and Biomedical Instrumentation, Intelligent Sensors for Robotics, Advanced Video Systems, Technological Innovation, Management of Technology, and Studies of the Computer Industry. More recently he has been interested in Robotics, Automation, and Software Engineering, focusing on Technological Change and Technology Transfer. He is currently interested in Software Technologies, Software Project and Process Management, and Software Outsourcing.

He is the author of over 200 research publications and numerous research reports, and has been speaker at numerous conferences, seminars, and symposia in the U.S. and Abroad. He has been a consultant and member of the BOD of a number of companies and not profit organizations in the US and Abroad.

Among his numerous honors, he is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering; a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de Ingeniería in Spain; Fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is Doctor Honoris Causa for the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) and the Universidad  Pública de Navarra (Spain), and Honorary Professor of several universities in China.