Maurice W. Long
Maurice W. Long (April 20, 1925 – October 14, 2023) was an American electrical engineer, radar engineer, and physicist. He served as director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1968 to 1975. He worked as a part-time radar consultant, principal research engineer at GTRI and adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University. Education Long received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1946. He also received a Master of Science in physics and a PhD from Georgia Tech, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky. Career Long began his career at the Engineering Experiment Station (now known as the Georgia Tech Research Institute) in 1946 as he completed his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. By 1963, he was serving as the chief of the Electronics Division of the Engineering Experiment Station. Long succeeded Wyatt Whitley as director of the Engineering Experiment Station in 1968 and was also given the title of associate dean for research as part of institute president Edwin D. Harrison's attempts to bring the academic departments and the station closer together. In 1970, institute president Arthur Hansen