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Later in 1969 he received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Rochester as part of an Executive Development Program.
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Benjamin Blanchard
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Blanchard received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine in 1951, and did some graduate coursework in Electrical Engineering. Early 1950s Blanchard started working at United States. Air Force, where he became electronics maintenance officer In 1953 he moved to industry working as engineer in the fields of design, field service, staff and management with Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sanders Associates, Bendix Corporation, and General Dynamics.
In 1970 he was appointed Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Technical, where he served until his retirement in 1997.
At Virginia Technical Blanchard has been Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering, and he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. His service, as a team member with Doctor Wolt Fabrycky, allowed them to articulate the principles and objectives of Systems Engineering in a manner that conveys the tremendous potential and value added by this discipline.".
