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Comment: He is notable, but the article needs a complete rewrite to meet the standards. Please read carefully others, don't invent a format. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Ldm1954: Thanks for your note. Could you please take a look at my new version of the Draft:Karl S. Pister to see whether it now meets the "standards," which are hard to pinpoint from the many links provided in your review. If the draft does not meet the "standards," please point out specifically which standards to help me address these points. Thanks again. Egm4313.s12 (talk) 15:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]Biography
[edit]Karl S. Pister | |
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![]() Receiving the Berkeley Medal, 1996 | |
Born | 27 June 1925 |
Died | 14 May 2022 | (aged 96)
Nationality | United States |
Citizenship | United States |
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Years active | 1952 - 2012 |
Known for | Academic leadership |
Title | Professor, Dean, Chancellor |
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Karl Stark Pister was born June 27, 1925, in Stockton, California.[1] He graduated from Stockton High School as class valedictorian in 1942,[2] 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.[3][4]
When Pister was hired at UC Berkeley in 1952, he initially conducted 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.[a] During the late 1950s he also began a multi-decade association with Lawrence Livermore National Labs.[4] 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).[4]
A distinguished alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,[3] 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.[6] 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). Pister was committed to promote social justice.[4]
The American Society for Engineering Education presented him with the Vincent Bendix Award for Minorities in Engineering, and the ASEE Lamme Medal (from the American Society of Engineering Education), which is "bestowed upon a distinguished engineering educator for contributions to the art of teaching, contributions to research and technical literature and achievements that contribute to the advancement of the profession of engineering college administration." 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.[4]
Pister was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 for his "Contributions in the use of advanced principles of mechanics in understanding the behavior of engineering materials."[6] A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 1994 while being the Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, in the area of "Mathematical and Physical Sciences" with specialty "Engineering and Technology,"[b] Pister was the recipient of the Berkeley Medal (1996)[c] and the Presidential Medal of the University of California (2000). In 2006, The California Alumni Association named him Cal Alumnus of the Year.[4]
Karl Pister married Rita Olsen in 1950. They have four daughters and two sons.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pister received the Wason Medal for Materials Research in 1960, as recorded in the official website of the American Concrete Institute, Paper Awards (Internet archived 2024.02.07), but mis-remembered the award year as 1962 in his Oral History book.[5]
- ^ Part of the citation for Pister's membership at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences describes his experience "As Chancellor of UCSC, Pister faced an array of problems: recession-caused budget cuts, the UC Regents' controversial decision regarding affirmative action, town-gown relations, and controversies surrounding construction projects on campus. He put in place a collaborative budget process that helped the campus weather those budget storms, while at the same time maintaining faculty, staff, and student morale during a difficult period in the campus's history. He also established cordial relations with the city and county of Santa Cruz, ushering in a new era of cooperation. Throughout his tenure, Pister was a tireless advocate for university involvement in the effort to improve K-12 education in the region, and he played an important role by creating the Monterey Bay Educational Consortium, which has fostered collaboration between the campus and public schools."
- ^ Editor's note: “The Berkeley Medal was established in 1981 as UC Berkeley’s top honor. On very rare and special occasions, it is bestowed on individuals whose exceptionally distinguished contributions to society advance the university’s ideals and goals and whose careers have benefited the public beyond the demands of tradition, rank, or direct service to Berkeley.” Among the past recipients were Corazon Aquino, Kofi Annan, Michelle Bachelet, Jimmy Carter, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, to cite a few."[1]
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[edit]- "Karl S. Pister, Dean, College of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley California, PhD, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1952", Distinguished alumnus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Grainger College of Engineering, 1982, retrieved 2024-05-11.
- "Dr. Karl S. Pister (1925-2022), Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley", National Academy of Engineering, 1980, retrieved 2024-05-11.
- Vu-Quoc, Loc; Li, Shaofan, eds. (2021a), "Advances in Computational Mechanics and Optimization To celebrate the 95th birthday of Professor Karl Stark Pister", CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 129 (3), retrieved 28 April 2024.
- LaBerge, Germaine (2003), "Karl Stark Pister, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, PROFESSOR AND DEAN; UCSC CHANCELLOR; UNIVERSITYWIDE CHAIR OF THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL AND VICE PRESIDENT--EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, 1952-2003" (PDF), Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2024, retrieved 28 April 2024. "Pister book" at Berkeley site.
- Austin, Mark (2021), "Part 1 - Biography and tributes", CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 129 (3): 1077–1122, doi:10.32604/cmes.2021.018838, retrieved 12 April 2024,
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- Vu-Quoc, Loc; Li, Shaofan (2021b), "Editors' introduction", CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 129 (3): 1075, doi:10.32604/cmes.2021.018780, retrieved 12 April 2024,
This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license..
External links
[edit]- Karl Pister, former UC Santa Cruz chancellor and UC Berkeley dean, has died, Public Affairs, UC Berkeley, 2022 May 16.
- Karl S. Pister on Citizendium, where anonymous users cannot edit.