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1997 CRA A. Nico Habermann Award
presented to
Dr. Andrew Bernat
Dr. Bernat is the founding chair of his department, and he has created what is arguably the best computer science department at a
minority institution. The UTEP CS department has an active research program, with competitive funding
from NSF and AFOSR. The department was one of the first to be awarded a minority infrastructure grant
from NSF/CISE.
The UTEP undergraduate program is CSAB-accredited, and the graduates of the UTEP bachelor's and
master's CS programs are to be found in CS doctoral programs at leading universities (Michigan, UT
Austin), and at major corporations. Dr. Bernat has also been a leader in the organization of CS
departments at minority institutions (ADMI). He has held several ADMI offices, and he has written grant
proposals on behalf of ADMI that have been funded. He has organized ADMI meetings that have made it
possible for department chairs at minority institutions to hear talks by leading figures in the CS research
community.
Dr. Bernat is also extremely active in CS education. He is a member of the Educational Activities Board
of IEEE-CS, and he is a participant in an NSF-funded project to reform the introductory CS curriculum
(the principal investigators are Allen Tucker of Bowdoin, Keith Barker of Connecticut, and Joe Turner
of Clemson). He is also a co-author of a published introductory CS textbook that has its roots in the
Bowdoin component of the NSF project). Dr. Bernat has been unique in his successful effort to bring a
predominantly minority institution to the CS research frontier.
Dr. Bernat's academic training and professional experience before he came to UTEP in 1982. He
received the BS in physics from Harvey Mudd College (1970) and the MS (1973) and PhD (1976) in
astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. He held research positions in astronomy at Kitt Peak
and other observatories. Dr. Bernat is currently director of the NSF-funded Model Institutions of
Excellence project at UTEP. He is a major player in the NSF-supported joint US-Mexico workshops on
computer science and engineering, and he organized the first of these workshops, held in El Paso in
1994.
The A. Nico Habermann Award is presented by the CRA annually to a person who has made an
outstanding contribution to aiding members of underrepresented groups within the computing research
community. This award recognizes works in areas of government affairs, education programs,
professional societies, public awareness and leadership that has a major impact on advancing these
groups in the computing research community.
Andrew Bernat 's homepage at UTEP.
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