Sloan ALN Summer Workshops: Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction

Frank Mayadas
Program Director
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
email: mayadas@sloan.org
URL: http://www.sloan.org/personnel/administration/DrMayadas.html

Prior to coming to the Sloan Foundation, Frank Mayadas spent 27 years at the IBM Corporation. He was Vice President, Research Division, Technical Plans and Controls, from 1991 to 1992; Vice President, Technology and Solutions Development, Application Solutions Line of Business, from 1989 to 1991; General Manager, University and College Systems, IBM Personal Systems Line of Business, from 1988 to 1989; Secretary of IBM's corporate Management Board and the IBM Management Committee, from 1987 to 1988; and IBM Research Division Vice President and Director, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, from 1983 to 1987; and an IBM Research Division Director, Technical Planning and Controls, from 1981 to 1983.

He received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell in 1965; and a B.S. from the Colorado School of Mines in 1961.

He has over 35 published papers in Systems, Devices, and Solid State Physics, and holds several patents, and awards from IBM. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and a past Director of the Society of Engineering Science. He is also a member of the National Advisory Board for Georgia Tech, and the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.