{"id":1830,"date":"2015-10-15T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ncsu.edu\/?p=203137"},"modified":"2015-10-15T06:53:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:53:51","slug":"from-galileo-to-steer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/2015\/from-galileo-to-steer\/","title":{"rendered":"From Galileo to Steer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"The advent of the Information Age has made it much easier to track one’s family history, turning days spent poring over dusty vital records into a few hours online.<\/p>\n

The same can be said of tracing one’s academic history.<\/p>\n

The Mathematics Genealogy Project at North Dakota State University compiles an online database of mathematicians with doctoral degrees in a wide range of associated disciplines and allows users to trace a lineage by doctoral advisor.<\/p>\n

The database led a student to trace\u00a0Dr. Michael B. Steer<\/a>‘s doctoral forebears back nearly five centuries. Steer, Lampe Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has some remarkable ancestors – including Galileo Galilei, as the\u00a0illustration<\/a>\u00a0(excerpt from magazine, PDF) shows.<\/p>\n

A doctoral graduate of the University of Queensland in 1983 under the advisement of Dr. Peter Khan, Steer shares an ancestor with\u00a0Dr. Paul Franzon<\/a>, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a doctoral graduate of the University of Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Source: Fall\/Winter 2015 NC State\u00a0College of Engineering magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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