Paul Edward Gray was the 14th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

. He graduated from M.I.T. in 1954 with a degree in Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 where he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He subsequently obtained an M.S. and Sc.D from M.I.T. in 1955 and 1960, and then served in the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

from 1960-1962. Afterwards he spent four years on the White House Science Council, had membership on the Council's Panel on the Health of Universities, and he was also vice chairman of the Council on Competitiveness. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and President Emeritus at MIT.

Education

• 1954: B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), MIT
• 1955: M.S., EECS, MIT
• 1960: Sc.D, EECS, MIT