Bonnie Heck Ferri is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator, the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education at Georgia Tech,[1] where she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, and the first woman to join the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.[2] Her publications include work on engineering education and control theory, including control reconfiguration and distributed control systems.
Education and career
editFerri majored in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1981. After working in industry and taking a master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, she came to Georgia Tech as a doctoral student in electrical engineering, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1988,[3] the first woman there to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering.[2]
She continued at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor,[3] the first woman hired to a faculty position in electrical engineering.[2] She was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 2002.[3]
She took her current position as vice provost (at the time Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development) in 2017.[4]
Recognition
editFerri was the 2007 recipient of the Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society.[5] She was selected as the recipient of the John R. Ragazzini Award in 2022 and elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to hands-on learning and leadership in higher education" in that same year.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Bonnie Ferri", Office of the Provost, Georgia Tech, retrieved 2023-11-07
- ^ a b c Rattini, Kristin Baird, "Bonnie Ferri, PhD EE '88, Vice Provost Of Graduate Education And Faculty Development", Campus leaders, Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, retrieved 2023-11-07
- ^ a b c Nomination for Regents' Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award (PDF), Georgia Tech, January 20, 2016, retrieved 2023-11-07; includes curriculum vitae
- ^ "Ferri Named Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development", Office of the Provost, Georgia Tech, June 6, 2017, retrieved 2023-11-07
- ^ Bonnie Heck Ferri *84 wins IEEE Education Society award, Princeton Engineering, October 26, 2007, retrieved 2023-11-07
- ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2023-11-07