Honorees
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Director's
Award
Dr. Craig Barrett, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Intel Corporation |
Craig R. Barrett is Intel’s chief executive officer. On
November 10, 2004, Barrett was elected to serve as chairman of
the Intel Board of Directors, effective May 2005.
Dr. Barrett, who perfected the process for manufacturing Intel’s
powerful microprocessors, knows firsthand the impact of putting
an excellent education within reach. Dr. Barrett attended Stanford
University in Palo Alto, California, from 1957 to 1964, where
he received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D.
degrees in Materials Science. After graduation, he joined the
faculty of Stanford University in the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, and remained through 1974, rising to
the rank of Associate Professor. Dr. Barrett was a Fulbright Fellow
at the Danish Technical University in Denmark in 1972 and a NATO
Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in England
from 1964 to 1965.
Dr. Barrett is passionate in his commitment to opening the gates
of opportunity for students by raising academic standards, improving
school quality, and opening access to higher education and technology
for a wider range of students. He has testified before Congress
about strengthening math, science, and technology education; advised
the President on education issues, and has been an outspoken advocate
for higher standards in schools.
Dr. Barrett serves as co-chair of NAB’s Business Coalition
for Excellence in Education and has served on the National Commission
on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century (also
known as the Glenn Commission). He is a board member of Achieve,
Inc., the national organization that helps states bolster the
quality of testing, accountability, and academic rigor in schools.
Intel particularly supports Achieve’s Mathematics Achievement
Partnership (MAP), a unique collaboration among states that will
create a new assessment and teaching and learning strategies to
assist U.S. eighth-graders in mastering the challenging foundations
of algebra and geometry to the level routinely taught in the highest
performing countries.
Dr. Barrett is also a member of the National Commission on Service-Learning
that is developing recommendations and an action plan to make
quality community-service opportunities connected to student learning
available to all K–12 students.
Realizing the power of education to motivate, inspire, and sow
the seeds of creativity and innovation, Dr. Barrett thrives on
seeing firsthand the tangible results of Intel’s contributions
to revitalizing education. His leadership for excellence in education
has included active participation at the Intel-sponsored International
Science and Engineering Fair, and he personally kicked off the
Computer Clubhouse Network—one of Intel’s strategies
for closing the “digital divide”—in Boston in
February 2000.
Dr. Barrett is the author of over 40 technical papers dealing
with the influence of microstructure on the properties of materials,
and a textbook on materials science, Principles of Engineering
Materials.
Dr. Barrett serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the
U.S. Council for International Business. He is also a member of
the Board of Directors for Intel Corporation, the U.S. Semiconductor
Industry Association, the National Forest Foundation, and the
Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group. He was recently elected Chair
of the National Academy of Engineering, where he will promote
the Academy and its policies to the engineering community and
the public. He is also Co-Chairman of the Business Coalition for
Excellence in Education, and Chairman of the Computer Systems
Policy Project.
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