Ilene Busch-Vishniac | |
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| 9th President of the University of Saskatchewan | |
| In office July 1, 2012 – May 21, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Peter MacKinnon |
| Succeeded by | Peter Stoicheff |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Spouse | Ethan Vishniac |
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| Alma mater | University of Rochester MIT |
| Profession | engineer |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Acoustic engineering |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Sound generation from impacted paper (1981) |
Ilene Busch-Vishniac is an American-born mechanical engineer and university administrator. She served as Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University from 1998 to 2003[1] then resigned the position to serve as President of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA),[2] an elected non-gratis position, from 2003 to 2005.[3] She served as Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at McMaster University from 2007 to 2012, and as President of the University of Saskatchewan from 2012 to 2014.[4] In 2018 she joined startup Sonavi Labs as Chief Innovation Officer. She has written research papers for the ASME on matters related to tribology.
Busch-Vishniac received her bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics (magna cum laude) from the University of Rochester in 1976. She then received her master's degree in 1978 and her PhD in 1981, both in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5][6]
- ^ "back on campus" (PDF). engineering.jhu.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-11. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ^ "Meet Past President of ASA, Dr. Ilene Busch-Vishniac". Acoustics Today. 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
- ^ [Curriculum vitae: http://www.mcmaster.ca/vpacademic/provost_cv.html] Retrieved 2014-06-14
- ^ usask.ca: "Office of the President: About Ilene", retrieved 22 May 2014
- ^ "Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac". Women In Acoustics. Acoustical Society of America. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- ^ Busch-Vishniac, Ilene Joy (1981). Sound generation from impacted paper (Ph.D. thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 8048222 – via ProQuest.