Draft:Karl S. Pister

Karl S. Pister
Karl S. Pister
	<img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Dr._Karl_Pister_receiving_the_Berkeley_Medal_1996.png/220px-Dr._Karl_Pister_receiving_the_Berkeley_Medal_1996.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="318" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="369" data-file-height="534"> Receiving the Berkeley Medal, 1996
Born	27 June 1925; Stockton, California
Died	14 May 2022 (aged 96); Berkeley, California
Nationality	United States
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley, BS 1945, MS 1948; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PhD 1952;
Occupation	Professor;
Years active	1952 - 2012
Known for	Academic leadership
Title	Professor, Dean, Chancellor
Signature
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Comment: He is notable, but the article needs a complete rewrite to meet the standards. Please read carefully others, don't invent a format. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ldm1954: Thanks for your note. Could you please take a look at my new version of the Draft:Karl S. Pister to see whether it now meets the "standards," which are hard to pinpoint from the many links provided in your review. If the draft does not meet the "standards," please point out specifically which standards to help me address these points. Thanks again. Egm4313.s12 (talk) 15:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments to reviewers

Notes on this revised version

To be specific, the current version of Draft:Karl_S._Pister addressed the following "standards":

NOT an essay, version 23:54, 3 May 2024: There are NO personal opinions of this article writer (Egm4313.s12), just FACTS with based on authoritative references. Quotations from authoritative sourses are NOT personal opinions (of this article writer), as seen in Karl S. Pister, version at 21:59, 2 May 2024, before review, which was thus NOT an essay, version 23:54, 3 May 2024.
Style, version 00:00, 20 April 2024: This article uses the Chronological Summary Style.
Tone, version 00:00, 20 April 2024: "formal, impersonal, and dispassionate."
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, version 17:47, 3 May 2024: The article just stated the facts based on official references.
Puffery, version 20:17, 21 April 2024 (Peacock terms): No puffery, no peacock terms (e.g., "legendary, best, great, acclaimed, iconic, visionary, outstanding, leading, celebrated, popular, award-winning, landmark, cutting-edge, innovative, revolutionary, extraordinary, brilliant, hit, famous, renowned, remarkable, prestigious, world-class, respected, notable, virtuoso, honorable, awesome, unique, pioneering, phenomenal, prominent, ...").

NOTE: To remove "puffery,"

◉ I changed "Throughout these many roles, he is well known and respected for leading by example, and his passionate commitment to promoting social justice" (see Karl S. Pister, version at 21:59, 2 May 2024, before review) TO "Pister was committed to promote social justice."

◉ I changed the sentence, "the Lamme Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the society, for his contributions to engineering education" (see Karl S. Pister, version at 21:59, 2 May 2024, before review) TO simply state the FACT as follows: the ASEE Lamme Medal (from the American Society of Engineering Education), which is "bestowed upon a distinguished engineering educator for contributions to the art of teaching, contributions to research and technical literature and achievements that contribute to the advancement of the profession of engineering college administration." See example of quoting FACTS on Bob Dylan in Section Puffery, version 20:17, 21 April 2024. (Actually, the FACT on the ASEE Lamme Medal has more "puffery" than the original sentence!)

◉ NO change in "The Berkeley Medal was established in 1981 as UC Berkeley’s top honor ... direct service to Berkeley" since that is a direct quotation of FACT from the Berkeley Medal website. See example of quoting FACTS on Bob Dylan in Section Puffery, version 20:17, 21 April 2024.

Bob-Dylan puffery-in-quotations standard: It is clear from Section Puffery, version 20:17, 21 April 2024, that quotations are NOT pufferies, even though they may contain more pufferies than the re-written version, as demonstrated above. That's the accepted irony per Section Puffery, version 20:17, 21 April 2024, and can be called the Bob-Dylan puffery-in-quotations standard, which is already satisfied by Karl S. Pister, version at 21:59, 2 May 2024, before review, since it contained only quotations!
Either the current Draft:Karl_S._Pister or the Karl S. Pister, version at 21:59, 2 May 2024, before review, has much more extensive content than a VERY large number of existing stub biographies, such as Nguyễn_Văn_Tố, version 20:54, 22 April 2024 (very poor since 2013), Matt_Keeling, version 21:02, 15 November 2023 (egregiously poor since 2020), Edmund_F._Robertson, version 07:48, 2 January 2024 (very poor since 2008), Carl_Naibo, version 04:33, 26 January 2024 (very poor since 2007), etc. to cite a few. See a HUGE number of all stubs in w:Category:Stubs. The application of the "standards" has thus been highly uneven and unfair. Would you move all these stub articles back to "DRAFT" status?
Before a reviewer talks about "standards," they must learn about the existence of a HUGE cache of sub-standard articles, for without such knowledge, they just display their own ignorance. If they did know about the existence of such HUGE cache of sub-standard articles, and still talks about "standards," they were utterly hypocritical and unfair.
Format: There is NO standard format mentioned in Section Style and format, version 23:54, 3 May 2024. In fact, the HUGE cache of sub-standard articles contains a large number of format variants, in particular biographical formats. There is a difference between a "standard" and the reviewer personal preference. See also Section Official rule or personal preference? for a related matter.

NOTE: The fixed versions above were those that I looked at at the time of this writing.

To the reviewer: Please be very specific on which remaining "standards" to address with specific examples/quotations from this article, as I did above in this box. (A bunch of links to general articles on "standards" such as "essay" is not helpful.) Thank you.

Updated Egm4313.s12 (talk) 18:31, 27 May 2024 (UTC) ◉ StartedEgm4313.s12 (talk) 20:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Biography

Karl Stark Pister was born June 27, 1925, in Stockton, California.^[1] He graduated from Stockton High School as class valedictorian in 1942,^[2] and from UC Berkeley with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1945. After a short stint in the Naval Reserve and an assignment to Okinawa, Japan, during World War II, he commenced studies at Berkeley during the fall of 1946, and graduated with an MS in Civil Engineering in 1948. This was followed by a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1952.^[3]^[4]

When Pister was hired at UC Berkeley in 1952, he initially conducted research on material properties of Portland Cement Concrete and the behavior of torpedo nets. For this early research work, he received the Wason Medal for Research, awarded by the American Concrete Institute.^[a] During the late 1950s he also began a multi-decade association with Lawrence Livermore National Labs.^[4]Over the next two decades, he served as Vice-chair of the Civil Engineering Department (1964–65), Chairman of the Division of Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (1970–71), Chairman of Committee on Educational Policy at Berkeley (1972–73), Senate Policy chair and Academic Senate, Berkeley Division, vice chair (1976–78), and Vice chairman and chairman of the nine-campus Academic Council and Assembly of the Academic Senate (1978–1980).^[4]

A distinguished alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,^[3] Pister was appointed Dean of the College of Engineering in 1980, a position he held for ten years. From 1985 to 1990, he was the first holder of the Roy W. Carlson Chair in Engineering.^[6] From 1991–1996 he served as Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz. He then returned to Berkeley to work as Vice President for Educational Outreach in the UC Office of the President (1999–2000) and to chair the task force on upgrading California Memorial Stadium (2004–2012). Pister was committed to promote social justice.^[4]

The American Society for Engineering Education presented him with the Vincent Bendix Award for Minorities in Engineering, and the ASEE Lamme Medal (from the American Society of Engineering Education), which is "bestowed upon a distinguished engineering educator for contributions to the art of teaching, contributions to research and technical literature and achievements that contribute to the advancement of the profession of engineering college administration." He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Honorary Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.^[4]

Pister was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 for his "Contributions in the use of advanced principles of mechanics in understanding the behavior of engineering materials."^[6]A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 1994 while being the Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, in the area of "Mathematical and Physical Sciences" with specialty "Engineering and Technology,"^[b] Pister was the recipient of the Berkeley Medal (1996)^[c] and the Presidential Medal of the University of California (2000). In 2006, The California Alumni Association named him Cal Alumnus of the Year.^[4]

Karl Pister married Rita Olsen in 1950. They have four daughters and two sons.^[4]

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References

"Karl S. Pister, Dean, College of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley California, PhD, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1952", Distinguished alumnus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Grainger College of Engineering, 1982, retrieved 2024-05-11.

"Dr. Karl S. Pister (1925-2022), Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley", National Academy of Engineering, 1980, retrieved 2024-05-11.

Vu-Quoc, Loc; Li, Shaofan, eds. (2021a), "Advances in Computational Mechanics and Optimization To celebrate the 95th birthday of Professor Karl Stark Pister", CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 129 (3), retrieved 28 April 2024.

LaBerge, Germaine (2003), "Karl Stark Pister, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, PROFESSOR AND DEAN; UCSC CHANCELLOR; UNIVERSITYWIDE CHAIR OF THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL AND VICE PRESIDENT--EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, 1952-2003" (PDF), Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2024, retrieved 28 April 2024. "Pister book" at Berkeley site.

Austin, Mark (2021), "Part 1 - Biography and tributes", CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 129 (3): 1077–1122, doi:10.32604/cmes.2021.018838, retrieved 12 April 2024, This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license..

Vu-Quoc, Loc; Li, Shaofan (2021b), "Editors' introduction", CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 129 (3): 1075, doi:10.32604/cmes.2021.018780, retrieved 12 April 2024, This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license..

External links

Karl Pister, former UC Santa Cruz chancellor and UC Berkeley dean, has died, Public Affairs, UC Berkeley, 2022 May 16.
Karl S. Pister on Citizendium, where anonymous users cannot edit.

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