Draft:Karl S. Pister

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  • Comment: He is notable, but the article needs a complete rewrite to meet the standards. Please read carefully others, don't invent a format. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
@Ldm1954: Thanks for your note. Could you please take a look at my new version of the Draft:Karl S. Pister to see whether it now meets the "standards," which are hard to pinpoint from the many links provided in your review. If the draft does not meet the "standards," please point out specifically which standards to help me address these points. Thanks again. Egm4313.s12 (talk) 15:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


Notes on this revised version

To be specific, the current version of Draft:Karl_S._Pister addressed the following "standards":

NOTE: To remove "puffery,"
◉ I changed "Throughout these many roles, he is well known and respected for leading by example, and his passionate commitment to promoting social justice" (see Karl S. Pister, version at 21:59, 2 May 2024, before review) TO "Pister was committed to promote social justice."
◉ I changed the sentence, "the Lamme Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the society, for his contributions to engineering education" (see Karl S. Pister, version at 21:59, 2 May 2024, before review) TO simply state the FACT as follows: the ASEE Lamme Medal (from the American Society of Engineering Education), which is "bestowed upon a distinguished engineering educator for contributions to the art of teaching, contributions to research and technical literature and achievements that contribute to the advancement of the profession of engineering college administration." See example of quoting FACTS on Bob Dylan in Section Puffery, version 20:17, 21 April 2024. (Actually, the FACT on the ASEE Lamme Medal has more "puffery" than the original sentence!)
◉ NO change in "The Berkeley Medal was established in 1981 as UC Berkeley’s top honor ... direct service to Berkeley" since that is a direct quotation of FACT from the Berkeley Medal website. See example of quoting FACTS on Bob Dylan in Section Puffery, version 20:17, 21 April 2024.

NOTE: The fixed versions above were those that I looked at at the time of this writing.

To the reviewer: Please be very specific on which remaining "standards" to address with specific examples/quotations from this article, as I did above in this box. (A bunch of links to general articles on "standards" such as "essay" is not helpful.) Thank you.

Updated Egm4313.s12 (talk) 22:46, 7 May 2024 (UTC) ◉ Started Egm4313.s12 (talk) 20:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)



Karl S. Pister
Receiving the Berkeley Medal, 1996
Born27 June 1925
Stockton, California
Died14 May 2022(2022-05-14) (aged 96)
Berkeley, California
NationalityUnited States
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Professor
Years active1952 - 2012
Known forAcademic leadership
TitleProfessor, Dean, Chancellor
Signature

Karl Stark Pister was born June 27, 1925, in Stockton, California.[1] He graduated from Stockton High School as class valedictorian in 1942,[2] and from UC Berkeley with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1945. After a short stint in the Naval Reserve and an assignment to Okinawa, Japan, during World War II, he commenced studies at Berkeley during the fall of 1946, and graduated with an MS in Civil Engineering in 1948. This was followed by a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1952.[3]

When Pister was hired at UC Berkeley in 1952, he initially conducted research on material properties of Portland Cement Concrete and the behavior of torpedo nets. For this early research work, he received the Wason Medal for Research, awarded by the American Concrete Institute.[a] During the late 1950s he also began a multi-decade association with Lawrence Livermore National Labs.[3] Over the next two decades, he served as Vice-chair of the Civil Engineering Department (1964–65), Chairman of the Division of Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (1970–71), Chairman of Committee on Educational Policy at Berkeley (1972–73), Senate Policy chair and Academic Senate, Berkeley Division, vice chair (1976–78), and Vice chairman and chairman of the nine-campus Academic Council and Assembly of the Academic Senate (1978–1980).[3]

Pister was appointed Dean of the College of Engineering in 1980, a position he held for ten years. From 1985 to 1990, he was the first holder of the Roy W. Carlson Chair in Engineering. From 1991–1996 he served as Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz. He then returned to Berkeley to work as Vice President for Educational Outreach in the UC Office of the President (1999–2000) and to chair the task force on upgrading California Memorial Stadium (2004–2012). Pister was committed to promote social justice.[3]

The American Society for Engineering Education presented him with the Vincent Bendix Award for Minorities in Engineering, and the ASEE Lamme Medal (from the American Society of Engineering Education), which is "bestowed upon a distinguished engineering educator for contributions to the art of teaching, contributions to research and technical literature and achievements that contribute to the advancement of the profession of engineering college administration." He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Honorary Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.[3]

Pister is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1980) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the Berkeley Medal (1996)[b] and the Presidential Medal of the University of California (2000). In 2006, The California Alumni Association named him Cal Alumnus of the Year.[3]

Karl Pister married Rita Olsen in 1950. They have four daughters and two sons.[3]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Pister received the Wason Medal for Materials Research in 1960, as recorded in the official website of the American Concrete Institute, Paper Awards (Internet archived 2024.02.07), but mis-remembered the award year as 1962 in his Oral History book.[4]
  2. ^ Editor's note: “The Berkeley Medal was established in 1981 as UC Berkeley’s top honor. On very rare and special occasions, it is bestowed on individuals whose exceptionally distinguished contributions to society advance the university’s ideals and goals and whose careers have benefited the public beyond the demands of tradition, rank, or direct service to Berkeley.” Among the past recipients were Corazon Aquino, Kofi Annan, Michelle Bachelet, Jimmy Carter, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, to cite a few."[1]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ a b Austin 2021.
  2. ^ LaBerge 2003, p. 30.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g LaBerge 2003.
  4. ^ LaBerge 2003, p. 122.

References[edit]

  • Vu-Quoc, Loc; Li, Shaofan, eds. (2021a), "Advances in Computational Mechanics and Optimization To celebrate the 95th birthday of Professor Karl Stark Pister", CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 129 (3), retrieved 28 April 2024.

External links[edit]

Karl Pister, former UC Santa Cruz chancellor and UC Berkeley dean, has died, Public Affairs, UC Berkeley, 2022 May 16.

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