Background
Staudhammer, John was born on March 15, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of John Senior and Josephine (Decker) Staudhammer.
Staudhammer, John was born on March 15, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of John Senior and Josephine (Decker) Staudhammer.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 1954. Master of Science in Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 1963.
Senior systems engineer System Development Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1959-1964. Professor engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, 1964-1967. Professor electrical engineering North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1967-1980.
Professor electrical engineering and computer science University Florida, Gainesville, since 1980. Advisory professor Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, since 1985. Program director systems prototyping and fabrication National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 1995-1996.
"I was a college teacher – yeah, I worked with computers, but I grew people. My achievements were not the things I did, but the reflected glow from some of my students’ meteoric rise into the stratosphere of professional achievements. I watched them with pride and often envied their successes. I often wished I could soar with them. But I knew that I was not to rocket – I was merely a launching pad. I was not a rocketeer, just a stone cutter laying foundation stones from where to step upward. My students needed to build their own edifices. I just had to make sure we would not start on sand."
Quotations: "I was a college teacher – yeah, I worked with computers, but I grew people. My achievements were not the things I did, but the reflected glow from some of my students’ meteoric rise into the stratosphere of professional achievements. I watched them with pride and often envied their successes. I often wished I could soar with them. But I knew that I was not to rocket – I was merely a launching pad. I was not a rocketeer, just a stone cutter laying foundation stones from where to step upward. My students needed to build their own edifices. I just had to make sure we would not start on sand."
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior, editor-in-chief journal. 1987-1990, Distinguished Service award 1990), American Association Computing Machinery (national lecturer), Association Engineering Education.
Children: Anne Monique, Paul Robert.