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Professional Biography
R.
D. Shelton has led international technology
assessments since 1984, as a policy analyst at NSF, and now as
president of WTEC, Inc.
. He is also Professor and Acting
Chair of Computer Science at Loyola
College in
Maryland . His degrees are in electrical engineering from
Texas Tech
University, MIT (as an NSF fellow), and the University of Houston. Dr.
Shelton
has worked at Texas Instruments, Inc. on electronics R&D, and
at NASA on
the Apollo space communications system and on TDRSS -- the system
currently
used for Shuttle communications. He has also been a professor at the
University
of Houston, University of Louisville, and Texas Tech University. He has
served
as the principal investigator on over 50 grants and contracts, has
written 62
technical papers and one book, and chaired three Ph.D. and 60 M.S.
thesis
committees. He has also chaired three academic departments that awarded
degrees
in applied mathematics, computer science, data processing, engineering
science,
and electrical engineering. In 1995 he was awarded an IEEE
Congressional
Fellowship to work as a legislative assistant for Rep. Lloyd Doggett,
including
staff support for the House Science Committee. Recently he has
organized a
spin-off of the International
Technology
Research Institute at Loyola into WTEC, Inc
, a non-profit corporation that conducts international technology
assessments
for NSF, DARPA, NIH, ONR, NIST, DOE, and other federal research
agencies.
Its ScienceUS division promotes American leadership of
science. His
research interests include bibliometrics, particularly for assessment
of national
leadership of science and technology. |
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Dr.
R. Duane Shelton
President
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