2007 NAE AWARDS
The 2007 Bernard M. Gordon Prize
Arthur W. Winston
Jerome E. Levy
Harold S. Goldberg
For the development of a multidisciplinary graduate
program for engineering professionals who have the potential and desire
to be engineering leaders, Dr. Arthur W. Winston, Mr. Jerome E. Levy,
and Mr. Harold S. Goldberg have been awarded this year’s Gordon Prize.
Named in honor of Bernard M. Gordon, chairman of NeuroLogica
Corporation, and endowed by the Gordon Foundation, the Gordon prize is
given annually in recognition of significant advances in education, such
as innovations in curriculum design, teaching methods, and
technology-enabled learning that lead to the development of engineering
leaders.
The Gordon Prize consists of a gold medallion, a
hand-lettered, illuminated certificate, and a $500,000 cash award,
divided equally among the recipients and the institution.
The 2007 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for
Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
“The program provides a very valuable step for
individuals who graduate from a four year institute and have a vision
that they want to do more with their careers.”
– Thomas E. Schonbach Jr. INVENSYS/ Foxboro
The Tufts University School of Engineering Master of
Science in Engineering Management (MSEM) Program emphasizes managerial
and leadership skills, product innovation and development, and
communication and teamwork skills. The goal of the program is to educate
students to be engineering leaders who can apply technology to meet
societal needs.
In the past, engineering graduate students were
generally faced with a choice between pursuing either an MBA or an
advanced technical degree, neither of which provides the combination of
management expertise and advanced technical knowledge necessary for
engineering leaders. The Tufts MSEM Program was created to fill this
void. It is designed as a two-year, executive-style program, that
provides students with a dedicated window of time to focus on their
studies, and, at the same time, minimizes the loss to companies of their
most valuable employees.
The curriculum is structured in modules designed to
expose students to important topics early in their studies and integrate
their learning experiences into a cohesive body of knowledge as they
progress. Organized into 40-person “cohorts” that move through the
program in parallel, students are encouraged to share information and
ideas and challenged to think in real time and work in teams.
The emphasis is on real-world projects that give
students opportunities to apply principles they have learned in the
classroom to real-world problems and thereby demonstrate their capacity
for technical leadership. The combination of a modular classroom
curriculum and real-world projects produces graduates who can not only
conceptualize and analyze, but can also implement real-world solutions
to the kinds of challenges that arise in the current business
environment.
Today, MSEM graduates hold leadership positions in
technology-driven companies in a wide range of industrial sectors. They
continue to make bold decisions, motivate teams, manage new
technologies, and develop new products that meet the needs of a rapidly
changing global economy.
The Tufts University school of Engineering “I give
much of the credit for the significant advancement in my career over the
past few years to the Tufts program and Dr. Arthur Winston.”
– Sean P. Hemingway Wyeth BioPharma
Dr. Arthur Winston
Dr. Arthur W. Winston, director of the MSEM Program
 and
Research Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tufts, has been an
integral part of the program since it was founded in 1984 and was
instrumental in the design and development of the innovative MSEM
curriculum.
Dr. Winston is also the 2005 past-president of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and was IEEE
president in 2004. An IEEE and IEE (UK) fellow, he is a recognized
expert in the fields of instrumentation and measurement and other
areas. He also received the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award in
1995.
Besides his 35 years of academic experience, Dr.
Winston has more than 40 years of experience in the development of
instrumentation. He has worked for leading technology-driven
organizations, including the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Radio
and Electrical Engineering Division of the National Research Council
of Canada, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Schlumberger,
National Research Corporation, and Allied Research Corporation
(Boeing). He co-founded several companies, including Space Sciences
and IKOR (Omniwave), and has served in a variety of high-level
corporate and technical positions.
During his career in industry, Dr. Winston was
personally responsible for the development of the Apollo Heat Shield
Temperature Measurement System, which monitored the head shield upon
re-entry, and the development and implementation of a worldwide
nuclear-test monitoring system that permitted the U.S. to participate
in the SALT talks. He has produced more than 100 papers and
presentations and holds three patents.
Dr. Winston received a B.A.Sc. from the University
of Toronto, where he specialized in engineering physics. He was first
in his class of 800 engineering students and received numerous
academic scholarships and awards. He earned his doctorate in physics
from MIT.
Jerome E. Levy
Jerome E. Levy began his seven-decade career in
education in 1938
 as
a teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City. Assigned to
teach remedial math to “failed” academic students, he discovered that
thinking—and teaching—outside the box could reawaken his students an
interest, and even a love of mathematics.
During World War II, Mr. Levy served as
Officer-in-Charge of the Pacific Fleet Radar School. Under his
command, more than 3,000 Navy, Army and Marine electronic technicians
were trained for assignments as radar repair technicians in all
theatres of the war.
After serving an additional five years as a civilian
training expert and fire-control analyst with the Navy Department
Bureau of Ordnance, Mr. Levy was recruited in 1957 as a consultant to
the Instrumentation Laboratory at MIT to manage the preparation and
control of the design documentation being prepared for the guidance
systems of Polaris and Apollo.
As a creator and developer of the innovative MSEM
Program curriculum, Mr. Levy worked with Harold Goldberg to prepare
the school for its initial accreditation by the New England
Association of Schools and Colleges.
Mr. Levy received his B.S. in mathematics, Magna Cum
Laude, from CCNY in 1938. He received his M.A. in education and
mathematics from New York University in 1940.
Harold S. Goldberg
Since graduating from The Cooper Union with a BEE in
1944,
 Harold
S. Goldberg has had a career of more than 60 years. Mr. Goldberg
received his MEE from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute He devoted his
early professional life to product engineering, developing both
military and commercial products and systems as an analog circuit and
systems designer, and then as a project engineer.
In 1959, Mr. Goldberg was recruited by EPSCO
Corporation, first as a section head in the Systems Division, then as
chief engineer of the division. In 1962, he moved on to co-found
Lexington Instruments where, as vice president for engineering, he
developed cardiovascular test instruments and monitoring systems.
Then, in 1966, he joined Avco Research Labs, where he designed the
electronics for the first balloon pumping cardiac system, which is
still in use today.
In 1971, he and Bernard Gordon founded Data
Precision Corporation. Mr. Goldberg was president throughout the
company’s rise to the third largest instrumentation company in the
industry. Mr. Goldberg played a key role in founding what was to
become the Tufts MSEM Program, serving as associate dean and then
Teaching Professor. For the past ten years, he has taught a popular
course, Engineering Project Methodology. He feels strongly that the
concepts taught in the MSEM program will be essential to the future of
the electronics industry in the United States.
Mr. Goldberg has received many awards and prizes.
Among them are Distinguished Alumnus from Polytechnic Institute, the
John Fluke Memorial Pioneer Award from the instrumentation industry,
the Alan Ploss Award from Electro, the Citation of Honor from the IEEE
US Activities Board, the Haradon Pratt Award from IEEE, and the Career
Achievement Award from the I&M Society, where he also recently became
a Director Emeritus.
Previous Recipients of the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in
Engineering and Technology Education
2002 Eli Fromm (E4 Project Drexel University and
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition)
2004 Frank Barnes (Interdisciplinary
Telecommunications Program University of Colorado at Boulder)
2005 Edward J. Coyle, Leah H. Jamieson, and William
C. Oakes (Engineering Projects in Community Service [EPICS] Program
Purdue University)
2006 Jens E. Jorgensen, John S. Lamancusa, Lueny
Morell, Allen L. Soyster, and Jose Zayas-Castro (The Learning Factory
at Pennsylvania State University)
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