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Fulbright Scholars
Professor Frumkin sits
on the advisory boards
of a number of textile,
apparel and related
industry companies and
delivered a United
Nations funded lecture
series, at the National
Institute of Fashion
Technology, in New
Delhi, India, on “The
Interrelationship of
Textiles, Clothing and
Marketing, From A Global
Perspective”, in January
of 1999; in addition to
participating in a
lecture series at the
American Textile History
Museum, in Lowell, Mass,
on “The Wonders of
Wool”. He is currently
conducting an on going
projects for the USA
State Department, United
States Agency for
International
Development (WINROCK),
in Uzbekistan and
Kazakhstan, working with
their emerging textile
companies and the global
marketplace.
Les Sztandera
Professor Sztandera served
as Distinguished Fulbright
FLAD Chair in Information
Systems at the Technical
University of Lisbon,
Portugal, for the 2002-2003
academic year.
Dr. Les M. Sztandera is an
Associate Professor of
Computer Information Systems
at Philadelphia University.
He has been involved in
information systems teaching
and research since 1987. Dr.
Sztandera has 12 years of
full time university
teaching experience, and is
a recipient of a Teaching
Excellence Award. He
developed a sequence of
information systems courses
coupled with laboratory
assignments in which
students work with real life
problems, such as detecting
an industrial pollutant,
predicting strength and
density of materials,
designing a medical expert
system, simulating
protective systems in
complex power generating
units, detecting
carcinogenic dyes, or
designing new drugs.
Complementary with his
teaching effort, Dr.
Sztandera has been involved
in a variety of research
activities. That has
resulted in numerous
research grants from the
Department of Commerce,
National Textile Center,
National Science Foundation,
Ohio Supercomputer Center,
Pittsburgh Supercomputer
Center, and American Heart
Association. Over $1,000,000
in research funding has been
experienced. Those research
activities also resulted in
30 journal publications and
50 conference presentations.
Professor Sztandera is a
member of professional
organizations in the U.S.
and Canada: the North
American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society,
Association for Computing
Machinery, and Canadian
Society for Fuzzy
Information and Neural
Systems. His scientific and
scholarly research
contributions to the fuzzy
set theory are
internationally recognized.
He proposed, designed, and
implemented fuzzy neural
trees. For this and other
contributions to the fuzzy
sets and systems theory, he
was included in the
Encyclopedia of Computer
Science and Technology, 1999
Edition. Dr. Sztandera is
also listed in the Marquis
Who’s Who in the World,
Who’s Who in Science and
Engineering, Who’s Who in
America, and Who’s Who in
the East.
The Fulbright Program,
America’s flagship
international educational
exchange activity, is
sponsored by the
U.S. Department of State,
Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs.
Over its 57 years of
existence, thousands of U.S.
faculty and professionals
have studied, taught or done
research abroad, and
thousands of their
counterparts from other
countries have engaged in
similar activities in the
U.S. They are among more
than 250,000 American and
foreign university students,
K-12 teachers, and
university faculty and
professionals who have
participated in one of the
several Fulbright exchange
programs.
Recipients of Fulbright
Scholar awards are selected
on the basis of academic or
professional achievement and
because they have
demonstrated extraordinary
leadership potential in
their fields. Among
thousands of prominent
Fulbright Scholar alumni are
Milton Friedman, Nobel
Prize-winning economist;
Alan Leshner, CEO of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
(AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet; and
Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel
Corporation.
For additional information,
please see the
Institute of International
Education
and the
Fulbright Web.
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