Peter Staudhammer is the Director of the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California
Staudhammer has been a practicing engineer for over 40 years, primarily in industry and more recently in academia. He began his professional career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1957 at the beginning of the space era. In 1959 he joined the technical staff of TRW where he remained for the next 42 years in a wide range of technical and management positions: Chief Engineer for Apollo Lunar Descent Engine and the Viking Mars Biology Instruments; headed TRW's Central Research Labs; general manager of Defense Projects Division; Chief Technical Officer with leadership of 15,000 engineers and scientists in the space, defense, electronics and automotive fields.
Peter Staudhammer is a graduate of UCLA with BS, MS and PhD degrees in Engineering.
I am not happy about the pace that we have maintained, about the dedication and how many times we go up an alley that afterwards when you are out there and you find out, you know, I shouldn't have been here to begin with. I didn't do thorough enough job. It always comes up when into the future. W...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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