CPS in Design and Manufacturing

BIO

Bruce Kramer is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B.,S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1979). He served on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering of MIT from 1979 to 1985 and of George Washington University from 1985 to 1995. Since 1991, he has been at the National Science Foundation, where he is currently Director of the Division of Engineering Education and Centers.

Dr. Kramer co-founded and was Director of Engineering of Zoom Telephonics, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, a NASDAQ company and leading producer of modems and wireless networking products marketed under the Zoom, Hayes, Practical Peripherals, Global Village and Cardinal brands.

He has been awarded the F.W. Taylor Medal of the International Institution for Production Engineering Research, the Blackall Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the R.F. Bunshah Medal of the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings, all in recognition of outstanding contributions to the manufacturing research literature. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honorary award granted by the National Science Foundation.