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Robert W. Conn is a Managing Director at Enterprise Partners. Prior to joining Enterprise Partners in 2002, Bob was the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego from 1994 to 2002 where he led the Jacobs School through an unprecedented period of growth.
Bob co-founded Plasma & Materials Technologies, a venture backed company spun out of UCLA that had a successful IPO in 1995. He served as board chairman and chief technologist until 1994.
Bob is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and over the years has received numerous awards including the E. O. Lawrence Memorial Award, presented on behalf of the President of the U.S., the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American Assoc. of Engineering Education, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the California Institute of Technology.
Bob has served on numerous advisory committees for the Federal Government, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and others, including the Energy Subcommittee of the President Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Physics Division Advisory Committee. Bob received his B.S. in chemical engineering and physics from Pratt Institute and his M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering science and applied physics from the California Institute of Technology. | 