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Alumnus Tom La Porta (EE'86) Named Director at Penn State

POSTED ON: June 1, 2016

Cooper Alumnus Tom La Porta (EE'86), the William E. Leonhard Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, has been appointed as the Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) starting June 1, 2016.
The Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department Computer Science at Penn State merged in Spring 2015 to create a School of Engineering.

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