George Bugliarello

George Bugliarello (May 20, 1927 —February 18, 2011) was an Italian President Emeritus, Institute Professor and former chancellor of the Polytechnic Institute of NYU (formerly Polytechnic University).

Early life George Bugliarello was born as Georgio Bugliarello-Wondrich to Spera Bugliarello-Wondrich and Colonel Federico Bugliarello Magnano di San Lio in Trieste, Italy. He studied engineering at the University of Padua from which he graduated in 1951 with summa cum laude. He then completed his Master's degree at the University of Minnesota civil engineering in 1954 and five years later he obtained a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in both hydrodynamics and civil engineering. He also has various honorary degrees from the University of Trieste, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Pace University, Trinity College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Career George joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 1959 as an assistant professor of biotechnology and civil engineering and worked there along with Tin-Kan Hung who was a professor of biomedical engineering until 1969. In 1964 he became the founding director of the bioengineering program at CMU and five years later became Dean of engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

On October 15, 1973, he was inaugurated as the 13th President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York and served as such till 1994.

Since 1987

In 1994 George had launched the Center for Technology and Financial Services at Polytechnic and from 1994 to 1997 he served as chairman of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council (BOSTID). and served as chair of the National Academy of Engineering Council’s International Affairs Committee. He also served as chair of the National Academies steering committee on the Megacities. Other committee service included the U.S. National Academies-Russian Academy of Sciences Committee on Terrorism Confronting the U.S. and Russia and co-chairmanship of a joint Russian-American Task Force on Urban Security.

Dr. Bugliarello’s international experience included consultantships abroad for OECD as a reviewer of the science policy of several countries, and for UNESCO, assignments as a specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Venezuela and Central Africa. He also held a NATO Senior Faculty Fellowship at Technische Universität Berlin, was a member on the U.S.-Egypt Joint Consultative Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, and member on the Scientific Committee of the Summer School on Environmental Dynamics in Venice. He had been the U.S. member of the Science for Stability Steering Committee, and of the Science for Peace Steering Committee, of the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO. 1978 - American Association for the Advancement of Science 1984 - American Society for Engineering Education 1993 - American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

He also was the founding member of the Marconi Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.