Myron Tribus

Dr. Myron Tribus is perhaps best known as former director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at M.I.T. Dr. Tribus headed the center when it published W. Edwards Deming’s book, Out of the Crisis, and became one of Deming’s leading supporters and interpreters.Dr. Tribus’ career as a leader in engineering and management dates from World War II, when he did key pioneering work on airplane de-icing as a design-development officer at Wright Field. He has served as an aircraft engine designer for General Electric, Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology in the U.S. Commerce Department, Senior V.P. for Research & Engineering in Xerox Corp., and Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where he led the faculty in developing a new curriculum based on engineering design and entrepreneurship. He served for 16 years on the faculty of engineering at UCLA, 2 years on the faculty of the University of Michigan and 12 years at MIT.

Dr. Tribus has published over 100 papers on topics ranging from academic subjects, such as heat transfer, fluid mechanics, probability theory, statistical inference, and thermodynamics, to applied topics such as sea water demineralization, aircraft heating, aircraft ice prevention, and the design of engineering curricula. He has published two books, Thermostatics and Thermodynamics, which provided the first textbook that bases the laws of thermodynamics on information theory rather than on the classical arguments, and Rational Descriptions, Decisions, and Designs, which introduces Bayesian Decision methods into the engineering design process. He is a co-founder of Exergy, a company specializing in the design of advanced, high-efficiency power production systems.

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