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Aeronautical engineer, professor, Dean of the College of Engineering, Provost for Professional Schools and Colleges, Vice
Chancellor for Research and Academic Affairs, University of California, Berkeley, 1949 to 1983 / 2000.
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Aeronautical engineer, professor, Dean of the College of Engineering, Provost for Professional Schools and Colleges, Vice Chancellor for Research and Academic Affairs, University of California, Berkeley, 1949 to 1983 / 2000College of Engineering oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Maslach, G. J. (George J.), creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Swent, Eleanor, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Growing up in San Francisco, 1920-1937; SF Junior College, UC Berkeley, 1937-1942; MIT Radiation Laboratory, design and development
of radar, 1942-1945; General Precision Laboratories, research engineer, 1945-1949; UC Berkeley: 1949-1963, research and teaching,
Director, Institute of Engineering Research; 1963-1972, Dean of College of Engineering, Free Speech Movement, Third World
Liberation Movement, articulation of community colleges and universities; 1972-1981, Provost for Professional Schools and
Colleges; 1981-1983, Vice Chancellor for Research and Academic Affairs; discusses advising U.S. Dept. of Commerce, U.S. Navy,
research grants, development of computer science, electronics.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAeronautical engineers -- California -- Interviews
Ingénieurs en aéronautique -- Californie -- Entretiens
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
Aeronautical engineers
California
University of California, Berkeley. -- College of Engineering -- History
University of California, Berkeley. -- Provost for Professional Schools and Colleges.
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty -- Interviews
University of California, Berkeley. -- Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
University of California, Berkeley. -- College of Engineering.
University of California, Berkeley.
Note:
George J. Maslach. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the College of Engineering oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3093 C:1-30.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
History.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xiii, 523 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
30 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.