RobertHebner

About

Hebner joined The University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He is the former Director of the Center for Electromechanics.

Prior to joining UT, Hebner served in the role of acting Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was also Deputy Director of NIST, the Chief Financial Officer of NIST, and the Director of NIST’s Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory.

Hebner also worked in the Office of Management and Budget, where he helped prepare the technology portions of the Administration’s 1990 budget; at Sandia, where he worked in accelerator design; and at the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, where he developed programs to stimulate technical advances in semiconductor manufacturing. He has served on a number of government review teams to assess the management of technical programs in other organizations. He was the principal investigator and the government’s key witness in a celebrated court case involving an alleged novel approach to the efficient generation of electricity.

Hebner has extensive experience in international technology programs, particularly in the areas needed to support global trade. He was responsible for the modernization and operation of the watt-hour meter calibration service that served as the reference for all electricity metering in the United States. Being appointed by the Secretary of Energy, he serves on the DOE’s statutory Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Advisory Committee.

Educational Qualifications

• Ph.D., Physics, University of Missouri, 1971
• M.S., Physics, University of Missouri, 1969
• B.S., Physics, Mary’s University, 1967

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• Harry Diamond Memorial Award IEEE (1990)

Related Websites

• LinkedIn Profile – Robert Hebner

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