 A. Frank Mayadas
(Ex-Officio Member)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Prior to
joining the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation as a Program Director, 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.
He has over
40 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 has served as a member of the National
Advisory Board for Georgia
Tech, and as Chairman of the College of Engineering
Advisory Board, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is a member of the Advisory Board for the College of
Engineering at the University of Florida.
At Sloan, Dr.
Mayadas has directed the Foundation's Program in Anytime,
Anyplace Learning since late 1992, and originally set the
directions that made this one of the Foundations most
successful programs. He is president of
Sloan-C (The Sloan
Consortium of institutions of higher education) which today
has over 400 institutions as members who offer over 700 full
degree and certificate programs. In recognition of his work
in anytime, anyplace learning, Dr. Mayadas has been invited
to keynote many conferences and has twice testifed before
Congress. In 1998 he received the Medal of Achievement from
the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN).
He was also invited to serve as a trustee of the Western
Governors University and filled this role for 5 years. He
currently leads the advisory group (CAM) for the U.S. Army's
program in online education (eARMYU), and serves on the
Advisory Board for the University of Texas Telecampus.
His
responsibilities at Sloan include other programs as well. He
started the Sloan
Career Cornerstone Program which has created and
distributed media products aimed at informing high school
and college students about the work-life in technical
fields, and is now a website on technical careers
information. He is also responsible for a portion of the
Sloan Program on
Industry Centers and Industry Studies, which encourages
empirical, academic research at universities in specific
industries such as autos, semiconductors, software etc. In
this connection, he has Sloan oversight responsibility for
Industry Centers at Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego,
Columbia, Carnegie-Mellon, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt, Worchester
Poly, and Rochester Institute of Technology.
He received a
Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell in 1965, and a B.S.
from the Colorado School of Mines in 1961.
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