Hermann Viets

Infobox Scientist


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name =Hermann Viets
birth_date =
birth_place =Quedlinburg, Germany
residence =United States
field =Astronautics Engineer
work_institutions=Milwaukee School of Engineering, University of Rhode Island, West Virginia University, Wright State University
alma_mater =Polytechnic University

Hermann Viets, Ph.D. (born in Quedlinburg, Germany) is an astronautics engineer and president of Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE).

Biography

* MSOE's fourth president, since 1991
* Ph.D. astronautics (1970), Polytechnic University
* M.S. astronautics (1966), Polytechnic University
* B.S. aerospace engineering (1965), Polytechnic University
* Holds seven American patents
* Former dean of engineering at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston; associate dean for research and professor at West Virginia University, Morgantown; professor of engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; visiting scientist, aerospace engineer and research group leader for Wright Patterson Air Force Base Aerospace Research Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio; lecturer at the Von Karman Institute in Brussels, Belgium

External links

* [http://www.msoe.edu/centennial/history/hermann_viets.shtml Biography of Hermann Viets at Milwaukee School of Engineering] .

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title=President of MSOE
before=Robert R. Spitzer
after=(incumbent)
years=1991-present