Noted Silicon Valley Engineer Shu-Park Chan Celebrates 15th Annivesary of his International Technology University
October 29, 2009
by Gerrye Wong
To celebrate the founding of International Tehnology University’s 15th anniversary as well as the founder Dr. Shu-Park Chan’s 80th birthday, a celebration is being held November 8 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel, with all proceeds going towards funding a new building for ITU and providing scholarships for new students.
Contact: lisaJ@ITU.edu or visit www.itu.edu/bday.
In keeping with his father’s charge, Shu-Park Chan studied electrical engineering, getting his PhD from Urbana, and joined Santa Clara University’s EE department, where he served for 30 years, becoming Dean of the Engineering School, the first endowed professor of SCU and its most celebrated professor.
Throughout his career, Professor Chan has personally taught over 10,000 students. Because of his cutting edge research, in the area of graph theory and network topology, bridging between electrical engineering over and into computer science, his PhD students include the co-founders of Cadence, ATMEL, Microelectronics Technologies, Oak Technology, Inc. and many other pillar companies that created the phenomenon known as the Silicon Valley. Conservatively speaking, over 80% of all microprocessors designed and developed within the last 20 years have been created or touched by technology, generated from Professor Chan’s students.
Though many have credited Professor Chan as a founding father of Silicon Valley hi-tech engineering education, and he is the first Asian-American appointed by a US President (Bush Senior) to sit on the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship Board, Professor Chan never relinquished his father’s charge and his own dream to bring the American education system to infuse China’s infrastructure, and extend that contribution to the rest of the developing world.
Professor Chan retired early, and in 1994, founded ITU to be the world’s first global network university model. Having successfully pioneered Silicon Valley hi-tech engineering education, Professor Chan recognized that proper engineering education bridges the “relevance gap” — found in most academic institutions — between academic theory and practical application. A university structure with relevant application-oriented education could develop new technologies and spin off new industries to convert an agriculturally-based economy into a burgeoning hi-tech center of development, trade and prosperity.
Merging his own successful Silicon Valley educational experience with the Warlord’s dream, Professor Chan developed the global vision for ITU. The first goal of creating ITU as a hi-tech model of university education has been accomplished. The next step is to scale out the ITU model all over the globe and infuse the entire world with relevant and internationally networked university level education that will support and build developing communities with educational resources and technologies. Indeed, education is the proper bridging infrastructure to non-violently develop the entire world, and also to bridge relations between and among all nations.
In mid 2005, Professor Chan’s son, Yau-Gene Chan, was appointed Executive Vice President to run ITU and carry forth the family’s vision. At that time, ITU had been running on a deficit every year, since inception. Yau’s first decision was to ask on board Dr. Gerald Cory, and together they rebuilt ITU from ground up, continuing ITU’s unbroken tradition of delivering cutting-edge hi-tech education, but also restructuring the operations of the university to become fiscally sound and eventually, scalable in its expansion
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For more info: www itu.edu or call 888 488 4968.
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