Jack Lubowsky, PhD, PE is President, Chief Consultant and Janitor of "Solutions to Fit" which specializes in the statistical analysis and modeling of complex data sets primarily for biomedical applications. He also teaches statistics and mathematics at Nassau Community College.

Most recently, Dr Lubowsky was Dean for Academic Computing and Technology and Associate Vice President for Technology at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For over twenty five years before that he was the Director of the Scientific/Academic Computing Center at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology in the College of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Biophysics in the School of Graduate Studies.

Dr. Lubowsky received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering ('73) and his MSEE ('66) from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and his BEE from the City College of New York ('62). He is a licensed PE in the state of New York and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma XI. He is listed in American Men and Women of Science and Who's Who in the East.

In 1983 Dr. Lubowsky was selected as an IEEE Congressional Science Fellow and served in Washington on the Senate Energy Subcommittee under the leadership of Senator John Glenn. Since that time he has served IEEE in a variety of positions including Chairman of the National Government Activities Council, which formulated the IEEE's Federal Legislative Agenda for both the 100th and 101st Congresses (1987-88 and 1989-90).

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AN ENGINEER IN CONGRESS

A former IEEE Congressional Fellow presents his view of what it was like for an engineer to serve in the Congress as Science Advisor, how the Congress functions, and why engineers should become more active in public policy issues.

03/03/03