avnet inc (AVT:New York)

Executive Profile*

Background*

Ms. Eleanor Baum has been Dean of Albert Nerken School of Engineering of The Cooper Union, New York for the Advancement of Science and Art since 1987. Dr. Baum serves as the President of ABET. She served as Dean of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Engineer in the Aerospace Industry. She served as President of the American Society for Engineering Education from 1995 to 1997 and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences from 1998 to 1999. She ... served as President of Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology from 1997 to 1998. She served as Chairperson of the Association of Engineering Schools, New York State. She served as Chair of the Engineering Workforce Commission from 1999 to 2002. She has been a Director of Allegheny Energy Supply Company, LLC since 1988. Dr. Baum has been a Director of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (formerly U.S. Trust Corporation) since 1994. She serves as a Director of Allegheny Power Systems Inc., and United States Trust Company. She serves as Executive Director of the Cooper Union Research Foundation. She serves as a Trustee of Embry Riddle University and Webb Institute and serves on various Advisory Boards to NASA, Electric Power Research Institute, and National Research Council, Universities, Government Agencies and Industry Groups. She serves as Commissioner of the Engineering Manpower Commission. She serves on the Board of the New York Building Congress. She served as an Independent Director of Avnet Inc., since 1994. She served as Independent Director of Allegheny Energy Inc. (AE), a holding company of Allegheny Energy Supply Company LLC (AE Supply), from 1988 to February 25, 2011. She served as Director at The Potomac Edison Company (Potomac Edison) from 1998 to December 6, 2001. She served as a Director of Monongahela Power Company (Monongahela), and West Penn Power Company (West Penn), and its subsidiaries, since 1988. Dr. Baum served as Director of Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology from 1997 to 1998. She served as an Advisory Board Member of Duke University, Rice University and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Her many awards are: the ASEE centennial medal, the Upward Mobility award from SWE, the Steinmetz medal from IEEE, the Townsend Harris medal from CCNY, the Achievement Award from Michigan State University, the Woman of Distinction Award from the National Conference of Student Leaders and outstanding alumnus awards from CCNY and Polytechnic University. Crains, N.Y. has again named her to its list of the 100 most influential women. In 2007, Dr. Baum was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She earned her Ph.D. from Polytechnic University in New York and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Union College, Trinity College, Notre Dame University, the Colorado School of Mines and New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of IEEE, SWE, ASEE, and ABET.

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