Carnegie Institute of Technology
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Sep 4, 2026
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
You know, that was the gamble that that Dean was taking with with his school.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
One thing that the dean of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, our engineering college has, is that when positions come open or the resources for new positions, the dean will make that position available to a traditional engineering department, you know, chemical, ECE department.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
only if they have a joint hire with engineering and public policy, and that the new faculty who are hired into that department have clear expectations that these are not 200 percent jobs, but two 75 percent jobs, and have the expectation of doing both applied and and basic research.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
So that's, you know, within the structure of our, you know, somewhat ossified academic institutions, that is a way for incremental change and has been part of what's kept APP going for 50 years.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
You know, that was the gamble that that Dean was taking with with his school.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
One thing that the dean of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, our engineering college has, is that when positions come open or the resources for new positions, the dean will make that position available to a traditional engineering department, chemical, ECE, Only if they have a joint hire with engineering and public policy and that the new faculty who are hired into that department have clear expectations that these are not 200 percent jobs, but 275 percent jobs and have the expectation of doing both applied and graduate.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
and basic research.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
So that's, you know, within the structure of our, you know, somewhat ossified academic institutions, that is a way for incremental change and has been part of what's kept APP going for 50 years.
Boruch FischhoffGUEST
You know, that was the gamble that that Dean was taking with with his school.
Boruch FischhoffGUEST
One thing that the dean of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, our engineering college has, is that when positions come open or the resources for new positions, the dean will make that position available to a traditional engineering department, chemical, ECE, only if they have a joint hire with engineering and public policy, and that the new faculty who are hired into that department have clear expectations that these are not 200% jobs, but 275% jobs, and have the expectation of doing both applied and and basic research.
Boruch FischhoffGUEST
So that's, you know, within the structure of our, you know, somewhat ossified academic institutions, that is a way for incremental change and has been part of what's kept APP going for 50 years.
Boruch FischhoffGUEST
We've had deans who understood the vision of having people within engineering and public policy.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
You know, that was the gamble that that Dean was taking with with his school.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
One thing that the dean of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, our engineering college has, is that when positions come open or the resources for new positions, the dean will make that position available to a traditional engineering department, you know, chemical, ECE department.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
only if they have a joint hire with engineering and public policy, and that the new faculty who are hired into that department have clear expectations that these are not 200% jobs, but two 75% jobs, and have the expectation of doing both applied and and basic research.
Baruch FischhoffGUEST
So that's, you know, within the structure of our, you know, somewhat ossified academic institutions, that is a way for incremental change and has been part of what's kept EPP going for 50 years.
Randy ScottHOST
But wartime shortages meant the United States needed alternatives.
Randy ScottHOST
In the early 1940s, Carnegie Institute of Technology alumni Earl Warwick and Rob Roy McGregor were working at Dow Corning Chemical and conducting silicone polymer research at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute as part of the wartime effort to develop alternatives to scarce natural rubber.
Randy ScottHOST
Working together, the two researchers experimented with silicone materials in search of useful synthetic rubber.
Randy ScottHOST
And one experiment produced something strange.
LevHOST
Andy Warhol hid under his bed throughout the funeral because he couldn't cope with the devastation.
LevHOST
His father had saved specifically for Andy's education, and in 1945, Andy enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh to study pictorial design.
LevHOST
He graduated in 1949 and boarded an overnight Greyhound bus to New York.
LevHOST
His name became Warhol, rather than Warholer, by complete accident.