Henry C. Bourne, Jr.
| Henry C. Bourne, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 31, 1921 Tarboro, North Carolina |
| Died | March 25, 2010 (aged 88) Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Residence | Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions |
Army Corp of Engineers MIT UC Berkeley Rice University National Science Foundation Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Notable awards |
IEEE Fellow AAAS Fellow |
Henry Clark Bourne, Jr. (December 31, 1921 – March 25, 2010) was an electrical engineer, administrator and faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1993. He was initially recruited by Georgia Tech president Joseph M. Pettit to be Georgia Tech's vice president of academic affairs; Bourne focused on faculty recruitment. Bourne would later serve as Georgia Tech's interim president after Pettit died of cancer in 1986.
He established, and is the namesake for, the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry, currently held by Thomas Lux.
Born in Tarboro, North Carolina, Bourne graduated from Virginia Episcopal School in 1940. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1944, a Master's in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1952, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in electrical engineering. His education was put on hold during World War II, when he served in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1946. While at MIT, he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
Following graduation, he served on the MIT faculty until he joined the University of California, Berkeley, at which he was a professor of electrical engineering from 1954 to 1963. He then went to Rice University, where he was a professor for 16 years and chair of the electrical engineering department for 11 of those years. Bourne then left for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, D.C., where he was the deputy assistant director of Engineering and Applied Science. While at NSF, Bourne met Joseph M. Pettit, who served on the National Science Board.
Bourne came to Tech in 1981 to serve as vice president of Academic Affairs. He was recruited by Pettit from the National Science Foundation, where as deputy assistant director of engineering and applied science he "had helped pioneer programs in microelectronics that brought the government, universities and industry together as partners".
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