2009 Honorary Degree
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Beginning at Bendix Corporation in 1952 working on missile development while earning his Ph.D. at night, Hollander later spent 10 years at AMF Corporation, then a global leader in automation and manufacturing technology, eventually becoming director of AMF's Central Research Laboratories.
Hollander's pioneering breakthroughs in welding, energy storage, food processing, automation, process measurement and control, and other areas advanced the frontiers of science, technology, industry and defense.
His patented discoveries are today essential components of research and manufacturing worldwide. His invention of flywheel-based friction welding sustains drilling rigs miles below the earth's surface as his advances in infrared temperature measurement operate on probes millions of miles away in space.
Hollander completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Purdue University in 1951. He earned his master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952, and a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1959. A lifelong champion for American manufacturing and the U.S. military, Hollander enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Korea at age 17.
Hollander has published more than 25 technical papers in temperature measurement, metal cutting, instrumentation and related subjects.
He is chairman and CEO of Newport Electronics Inc., an international leader designing, manufacturing and marketing digital instrumentation. He is a registered professional engineer in six states.
Hollander also is an acclaimed real estate developer. In the United States and the U.K, he created high technology campuses out of abandoned industrial dumps. One example, RiverBend Center in Stamford, Conn., houses dozens of high-tech firms and full-degree branches of two universities.
Hollander is an instrument rated commercial pilot, often flying his own plane between his many business projects. He resides in Connecticut with his wife of 57 years, Betty, chairman and CEO of Omega Engineering Inc. The Hollanders are passionate supporters of education, healthcare and health research, and of Purdue.
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