Background
Maidique, Modesto Alex was born on March 20, 1940 in Havana, Cuba. Son of Modesto Maidique and Hilda Rodriguez.
academic administrator engineering educator
Maidique, Modesto Alex was born on March 20, 1940 in Havana, Cuba. Son of Modesto Maidique and Hilda Rodriguez.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970.
Appointed in 1986, Doctor Maidique was the longest-serving university president in Florida and the second longest-serving research university president in the United States. On November 14, 2008, Maidique presented his resignation to the FIU Board of trustees. On April 25, 2009, Mark B. Rosenberg was chosen to succeed Maidique and assumed office on August 3, 2009.
Modesto Maidique was president of FIU for 23 years.
During his tenure, the Colleges of Law and Engineering and a School of Architecture were established. The FIU College of Medicine was also founded in 2006.
The first class of medical students began their studies in August 2009. On November 14, 2008 Modesto Maidique announced his resignation from his post as President of FIU. On June 12, 2009, FIU"s Board of Trustees voted to rename the University Park campus to the Modesto A. Maidique Campus.
As a supporter of Fulgencio Batista"s authoritarian rule, Maidique chose to leave Cuba after the Fidel Castro overthrew the regime.
He came to FIU with an elite background in both academe and business. From 1976-1986, he held academic appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Stanford University. Maidique co-founded the Analog Devices, Incorporated., Semiconductor Division, in 1969.
He served as Chief Executive Officer of Collaborative Research, a genetic engineering company that is now Genome Therapeutics, from 1981–1983, and as senior partner in Harbrecht & Quist Venture Partners from 1984-1986.
He holds three United States patents for semiconductor devices. From 1984 to 1986, Maidique was a professor of business management at the University of Miami.
Internationally recognized as a leader in higher education and management of high technology enterprises, Maidique’s expertise has been sought at the highest levels. In 1989, United States President George H. West. Bush appointed him to the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee, and served in a similar capacity for President George West. Bush.
Maidique serves on the boards of National Semiconductor and the Carnival Corporation.
He is past chairman of the Beacon Council, Miami’s economic development authority. Maidique has published extensively in leading academic journals. He is a contributing author to ten books, and a co-author of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, a textbook widely used at colleges and universities.
He is also a co-author of Energy Future, a New York Times Best Seller on energy policy.
Maidique earned a Bachelor of Science (1962), Mississippi (1964), and Doctor of Philosophy (1970) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School in 1975.
Maidique is a Phi Beta Kappa FIU alumni, and has two children, Ana Teresa and Mark Alex.
Maidique was born in Havana, Cuba, on March 20, 1940, to a family with a strong tradition of public service and political involvement. An article he co-authored, "The Art of High Technology Management", is one of the best-selling articles published by the Sloan Management Review.
Member President's Education Policy Advisory Committee. Chairman Beacon Council, 1992-1993. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association Cuban Engineers.
Married Ana Hernandez, July 18, 1981. Children: Ana Teresa, Mark Alex.