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ashington: The council of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
announces the appointment of newly elected councilor William A.
Wulf as interim president of the NAE effective July 17.Elected to serve a three-year term as NAE councilor on June 26, Wulf, AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, was appointed by the council to the position of interim president while the NAE immediately begins the process of selecting a permanent president. The membership will participate in the selection of a nominating committee, and a special election will be held as soon as possible. Wulf succeeds Harold Liebowitz who was recently recalled as president by a vote of the NAE membership.
In addition to his current post, Wulf has had a distinguished National Science Foundation; chairman and CEO of Tartan Laboratories Inc., Pittsburgh; and professor of computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Wulf was elected to NAE membership in 1993 and serves as chair of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.
The 1,840-member National Academy of Engineering was established in
1964, under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy
of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It
is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its
members, sharing with the National Academy
of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government
and management of the National Research Council.
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