SPEAKER: TOM MURRIN
Dean, A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration,
ABSTRACT:
SPEAKER BIO:
Duquesne University
World Class Manufacturing and Global Leadership
Drawing on his experiences in Industry, Government and Academe --- and
his beneficial association with Raj Reddy --- Tom Murrin will comment
on a few of Raj's extraordinary contributions and accomplishments; with
emphasis on world-class manufacturing and enlightened management.
Tom Murrin has been Dean of Duquesne University's School of Business
Administration since early 1991. Previously he was Deputy Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Earlier, from 1983 to 1987, he was
President of the Energy and Advanced Technology Group of Westinghouse
Electric Corporation, which he joined in 1951. Mu. Murrin has served
as Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Commerce Department's
Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, the Federal Quality Institute,
the Defense Department's Manufacturing Board, and the Commission on the
Federal Appointment Process. We was a member of the President's Commission
on Industrial Competitiveness and Chairman of the Board of Governors of
the Aerospace Industires Association. He has served as Distinguished Service
Professor in Technology and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, as
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duquesne University and as a member
of Board of Trustees of Fordham University.
Murrin is a Director of Motorola and the Duquesne Light Company and its holding
Company, DQE, Inc., and several non-profit organizations. He is Chairman
of Governor Ridge's Technology 21 Program; Chairman of the Pittsburgh
Tissue Engineering Institute, and Chairman of the Assessment Panel of the
Pittsburgh Public School System.
He received his B.S. degree in Physics from Fordham University in 1951
(where he was a starting tackle under Coach Vice Lombardi!), and completed
graduate work at several universities. He has received Honorary Degrees
from Duquesne University and Fordham University -- and an Honorary Professor
Award from Northern Jiaotong University in Beijing, China. He is a Fellow
of the National Academy of Engineering and recently served on NAE's Study
Committee on Foreign Participation in U.S. Research and Development. He is
also a member of NAE's Program Advisory Committee and his views have been
published in their prestigious ISSUES publication.