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Demetrius T. Paris, professor and former Vice President for Research and Graduate Programs at Georgia Tech, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Saturday, August 29. He was 69 years old.
Born in Stavroupolis, Greece on September 27, 1928, Dr. Paris emigrated to the United States in 1947 to attend college at Mississippi State University, where he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. While working full-time, Dr. Paris earned his master's degree from Georgia Tech in 1958. In 1959, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering (now known as the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, or ECE) faculty and simultaneously pursued his doctorate, which he earned in 1962.
Dr. Paris became the School's director in 1969, a post he held for 20 years. During his tenure in that position, he led the School from being a regional undergraduate teaching institution to a major national resource both for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for relevant, high quality research. From 1989-95, Dr. Paris served as the Institute's vice president for Research and Graduate Programs. From 1995 until his death, he returned to ECE as coordinator of the School's research programs, a task in which his years of expertise and knowledge were valued by its administrators and faculty.
Dr. Paris served on the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), most recently as the chair of its international activities committee and from 1989-95 on its board of directors. A Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of ABET, he was recently chosen to receive the Meritorious Award for Accreditation Activities from the IEEE Educational Activities Board.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Faculty Endowment, in care of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Atlanta, Ga. 30332-0182. The endowment was established last spring to commemorate Dr. Paris' outstanding service to the Georgia Tech community and will support outstanding young faculty members in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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