2002 Recipient of the Bernard M. Gordon Prize
The Bernard M. Gordon Prize is awarded for inventiveness
in engineering and technology education.
Dr. Eli Fromm
Dr. Eli Fromm is the
Roy A. Brothers University Professor (since 1997), professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering (since 1983), and director of the Center for
Educational Research in the College of Engineering (since 1999) of Drexel
University, Philadelphia, Penn.
Dr. Fromm has served Drexel
University for 35 years and has held a number of University academic
leadership positions including vice president for Educational Research,
vice provost for Research and Graduate Studies, interim dean of the
College of Engineering, and interim head of the Department of Biosciences.
His career began at General Electric Company in 1962 as an
engineer for the missile and space division. He was responsible for
studying, designing, and assisting in the development of biomedical
instrumentation and solar powered telestimulation systems. A year later,
he moved to E. I. DuPont Company as an engineer in the Engineering Physics
Laboratory. There he assisted in the development of the non-corneal
contact commercial tonometer, "Durham Tonometer", as well as external
blood pressure monitoring systems for continuous sensing. Concurrently
with his professorship at Drexel University, Dr. Fromm served the United
States House of Representative's Committee on Science and Technology as a
congressional science and engineering fellow and as a professional staff
member. In 1983, he worked with the National Science Foundation as a
program director for the bioengineering program where he, among other
responsibilities, provided managerial and technical guidance to strengthen
science and engineering education and research. In 1986, the Legislative
Office of Research Liaison of the State of Pennsylvania House of
Representatives tapped him as a visiting scientist to assist in the state
legislature in policy research on scientific and technological issues.
His many years of activities devoted to educational leadership and
the engineering educational reform movements include principal
investigator of the Drexel E4 project and principal investigator/director
of the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition program. In addition, he
has been the principal investigator of a number of research projects in
biotelemetry, including development of micro-miniature implantable and
ingestible transmitters and sensors with experimental use in physiologic
measurements of the reproductive, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular
systems.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a charter fellow of the American Institute
of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and recipient of numerous
of awards and honors from such organizations as the IEEE, American Society
for Engineering Education (ASEE), Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology (ABET), the Smithsonian Institution, Drexel University, and
others.
Dr. Eli Fromm received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from Drexel University in 1962, as well as his master's in
engineering in 1964. In 1967, Dr. Fromm earned his doctorate in
bioengineering and physiology from the Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, Penn. He resides in Broomall, Penn., with his wife
Dorothy.
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