Karl S. Pister: Difference between revisions
Loc Vu-Quoc (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Loc Vu-Quoc (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
<!-- | |||
[[File:CMES 2021.12 - cover Karl Pister-1.pdf|thumb|250px|left|Celebrating the 95th birthday of Professor Karl S. Pister]] | [[File:CMES 2021.12 - cover Karl Pister-1.pdf|thumb|250px|left|Celebrating the 95th birthday of Professor Karl S. Pister]] | ||
Template "resize" and template "font color" not working: | Template "resize" and template "font color" not working: | ||
{{resize|200%|{{font color|blue|❝}}}} {{font color|blue|❝}} | {{resize|200%|{{font color|blue|❝}}}} {{font color|blue|❝}} | ||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
{{border |Abc|width=2px|style=dotted |color=red}} | {{border |Abc|width=2px|style=dotted |color=red}} | ||
--> | --> | ||
{{box| | |||
On the occasion of Professor <b>Karl S. Pister</b>’s 95th birthday<ref name="Intro"/> and his long academic career–-in research, teaching, and university leadership and administration–-we gathered together former students, friends and colleagues to contribute to this [https://www.techscience.com/CMES/v129n3/ CMES Special Issue, Vol.129, No.3, 2021 Nov 25], which is composed of three parts. | On the occasion of Professor <b>Karl S. Pister</b>’s 95th birthday<ref name="Intro"/> and his long academic career–-in research, teaching, and university leadership and administration–-we gathered together former students, friends and colleagues to contribute to this [https://www.techscience.com/CMES/v129n3/ CMES Special Issue, Vol.129, No.3, 2021 Nov 25], which is composed of three parts. | ||
| Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
<sup>2</sup>Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720, USA ∙ Shaofan@berkeley.edu | <sup>2</sup>Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720, USA ∙ Shaofan@berkeley.edu | ||
}} | |||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Revision as of 15:55, 22 April 2024
Introduction
On the occasion of Professor Karl S. Pister’s 95th birthday[1] and his long academic career–-in research, teaching, and university leadership and administration–-we gathered together former students, friends and colleagues to contribute to this CMES Special Issue, Vol.129, No.3, 2021 Nov 25, which is composed of three parts.
Part 1 consists of eighteen items, a biography of Professor Pister followed by seventeen individual tributes to Professor Pister. Part 2 consists of fourteen technical papers dedicated to Professor Pister, followed by Part 3, a memory-lane with photos of the participants from way back when, particularly around the time of their closest interaction with Professor Pister, either through research or through administration.
Specifically, we intentionally arranged Part 1 to reflect a certain balance of diversity that Professor Pister sought for much of his later career as a university administrator, as described in detail in the long tribute by Dr. Sheila Humphreys titled “Karl S. Pister and the Foundation of Diversity in Engineering”. It is with regret that the same extent of the balance in Part 1 could not be replicated in Part 2.
We pay particular attention to the permanence of Web resources cited in this special issue. For example, the University of Maryland [https://president.umd.edu/ HomepageBiography
Karl Stark Pister was born June 27, 1925, in Stockton, California. He graduated from Stockton High School as class valedictorian in 1942, and from UC Berkeley with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1945. After a short stint in the Naval Reserve and an assignment to Okinawa, Japan, during World War II, he commenced studies at Berkeley during the fall of 1946, and graduated with an MS in Civil Engineering in 1948. This was followed by a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1952.
When Pister was hired at UC Berkeley in 1952, he initially con- ducted research on material properties of Portland Cement Concrete and the behavior of torpedo nets. For this early research work, he received the Wason Medal for Research, awarded by the American Concrete Institute. During the late 1950s he also began a multi-decade association with Lawrence Livermore National Labs.[2]
Over the next two decades, he served as Vice-chair of the Civil Engineering Department (1964–65), Chairman of the Division of Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (1970–71), Chairman of Committee on Educational Policy at Berkeley (1972–73), Senate Policy chair and Academic Senate, Berkeley Division, vice chair (1976–78), and Vice chairman and chairman of the nine-campus Academic Council and Assembly of the Academic Senate (1978–1980).[2]
Pister was appointed Dean of the College of Engineering in 1980, a position he held for ten years. From 1985 to 1990, he was the first holder of the Roy W. Carlson Chair in Engineering. From 1991–1996 he served as Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz. He then returned to Berkeley to work as Vice President for Educational Outreach in the UC Office of the President (1999–2000) and to chair the task force on upgrading California Memorial Stadium (2004–2012). Throughout these many roles, he is well known and respected for leading by example, and his passionate commitment to promoting social justice.[2]
The American Society for Engineering Education presented him with the Vincent Bendix Award for Minorities in Engineering, and the Lamme Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the society, for his contributions to engineering education. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Honorary Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.[2]
Pister is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1980) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the Berkeley Medal (1996) and the Presidential Medal of the University of California (2000). In 2006, The California Alumni Association named him Cal Alumnus of the Year.[2]
Karl Pister married Rita Olsen in 1950. They have four daughters and two sons.[2]
Dr. Mark Austin
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Maryland at College Park
austin@umd.edu
Website: http://www.isr.umd.edu/∼austin (Internet archived on 2021.07.20)
References
- ↑ Vu-Quoc, Loc & Shaofan Li (2021), Editors’ introduction, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.018780, at 1075–1075. Retrieved on 12 April 2024, CC-BY-4.0
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Austin, Mark (2021), Part 1 - Biography and tributes, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.018838, at 1077–1122. Retrieved on 12 April 2024, CC-BY-4.0