U.VA. PROFESSOR, WILLIAM WULF, APPOINTED TO
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INTERIM PRESIDENT 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 1 -- The council of the National
Academy of Engineering (NAE) announces the appointment of newly
elected councillor William A. Wulf
as interim president of the NAE effective July 17. 
	Elected to serve a three-year term as NAE councillor on June
26, Wulf, AT&T
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of
Virginia, was appointed by the
council to the position of interim president while the NAE begins
the process of selecting a
permanent president. The membership will participate in the
selection of a nominating
committee, and a special election will be held soon. Wulf succeeds
Harold Liebowitz who
was recently recalled as president by a vote of the NAE membership. 
	In addition to his current post, Wulf has had a
distinguished career that includes
serving as assistant director of the National Science Foundation;
chairman and CEO of
Tartan Laboratories Inc., Pittsburgh, and professor of computer
science at Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh. Wulf was elected to NAE membership in 1993
and serves as chair of
the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National
Research Council.
	The 1,840-member National Academy of Engineering was
established in 1964, under
the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of
Sciences, as a parallel
organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its
administration and in the
selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of
Sciences the responsibility
for advising the federal government and management of the National
Research Council.
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July 1, 1996

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