Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 20, 2000
DR. GREGORY J. YUREK, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman
of the Board, founded American Superconductor Corporation in April 1987
with three fellow MIT professors. Immediately before signing on with
American Superconductor as Chief Technical Officer in August 1988, Dr.
Yurek served as a consultant to the firm, with responsibilities for
overseeing the transfer of technology from MIT for establishing the
company's research and development programs and creating strategic
alliances. From 1976 to 1988, Dr. Yurek was co-Director of the H.H.
Uhlig Corrosion Laboratory at MIT, where he was Professor of Materials
Science and Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at MIT, Dr. Yurek
was a Research Scientist in the Metals and Ceramics Division of the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Yurek has consulted extensively for the
petrochemical, aerospace, nuclear, automotive and chemical industries in
the area of high-temperature materials and corrosion. He has more than
50 scientific and technical publications to his credit, along with eight
US patents issued in his name. Dr. Yurek is past Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Council on Superconductivity for American
Competitiveness (CSAC). He is the 1996 recipient of the McFarland Award
for achievement in metallurgy at Pennsylvania State University. He also
received the Award of Merit from Japan's Science and Technology Agency.
He received his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from Ohio State
University and obtained his BS and MS degrees in Metallurgy from
Pennsylvania State University. Profile
Corporation?
Dr. Yurek: We were formed in 1987, just after the discovery of a whole
new family of superconducting materials
