Cambridge, MA, USA - February 3, 2011 - Associate Provost Martin Schmidt has announced that Duane Boning, professor electrical engineering and computer science, has agreed to serve as director of the MIT Masdar Program. In this role, Boning will help strengthen the growing rich collaboration in education and research between MIT, the Masdar Institute and Abu Dhabi.
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Duane Boning
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Cambridge, MA, USA - February 3, 2011
Associate Provost Martin Schmidt has announced that
Duane Boning, professor electrical engineering and computer science, has agreed to serve as
director of the MIT Masdar Program.
In this role,
Boning will help strengthen the growing rich collaboration in education and research
between MIT, the Masdar Institute and Abu Dhabi.
Schmidt, in an e-mail to associated faculty and researchers, said that
Boning, as director, will build on the assistance
MIT has provided to the
Masdar Institute, including establishment of a range of new graduate programs at
Masdar spanning topics of energy, smart grid, materials and microsystems engineering, that have been successfully launched under the leadership of
Professor Fred Moavenzadeh, previous
director of the MIT Masdar Program who has taken a leave of absence to serve as the
president of Masdar Institute.
Boning will work with the
Masdar Program staff at MIT under the
Technology Development Program (TDP); with
MIT faculty engaged in curricular development and joint research with
Masdar; with
Masdar Institute students interacting with
MIT; and with
Masdar Institute leadership to explore new collaboration opportunities.
In addition to a strong administrative background,
Boning brings to this role experiences with several international programs at
MIT.
Over the last two years, he has worked with the
Masdar Program and faculty at
MIT to help define and ramp up the
microsystems engineering graduate degree program at
Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi.
He has recently contributed to the assessment of
MIT-Russia research and education engagement opportunities.
Boning has also participated in the
Singapore-MIT Alliance since 2004, through
SMA1 and
SMA2 programs in manufacturing science and technology, and he served as co-director for education in the
Cambridge-MIT Initiative from 2003 to 2004.
Boning will continue as associate head of the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a position he has held since 2004.
He has also served as
associate director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories from 1998 to 2004, and as chair of the
MIT Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid (CUAFA) from 2008 to 2010.
SOURCE: MIT news
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/boning-masdar.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/engineering.html
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