David V. Ragone: 1980-1987
David V. Ragone was named president of Case Western Reserve
University in 1980. In 1987 he left Case to resume a teaching
career at MIT, where he taught
undergraduate courses in thermodynamics and the physical chemistry
of materials. Soon thereafter he also began writing textbooks
such as Thermodynamics of Materials, Volumes One and Two.
Presently on the advisory board of Ampersand
Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on materials
and chemicals, Ragone has also served as a member of the National
Science Board and has been a director for more than a dozen
public and private companies. He is also a member of ASM,
AIME, and ACS.
David V. Ragone received his S. B., S. M., and Sc.D. degrees
in metallurgical engineering from MIT. From 1953 to 1962 he
taught undergraduate and graduate courses in thermodynamics
at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor. After leaving Ann Arbor, he served as chairman
of the materials department and assistant director of the Hopkins
laboratory at the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics
where he directed research on materials for advanced, high-temperature,
gas-cooled nuclear reactors. He later served as Alcoa Professor
of Metallurgy and Associate Dean of Urban and Public Affairs
at Carnegie Mellon. From
1970-1972 he served as dean of the Thayer
School of Engineering at Dartmouth after which he returned
to the University of Michigan as Dean of Engineering, a role
he held until his appointment as president of Case.
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