Awards & Recognition
★Elected to National Academy of Engineering (1984) for advances in rapid solidification of alloy systems
★Fellow and Distinguished Life Member of American Society of Metals International (ASM)
★Henry Marion Howe Medal of the ASM
★Fellow and Leadership Award recipient of Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)
★UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering named 'Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering' (2025)
★Carnegie Mellon Collaborative Innovation Center named for him (2012)
★Honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon (Sc.D.) and Chatham College (L.H.D.)
Notable Facts
→Executive Chairman of $25B market cap Teledyne Technologies, led company through 100x market cap growth since 1999
→Former President of Carnegie Mellon University (1990-1997) and Dean at UC Santa Barbara (1983-1990)
→Materials scientist with 8 U.S. patents, 40+ foreign patents, authored 139 technical papers, edited 6 books
→Served 4 years in U.S. Government Senior Executive Service, directed NIST Center for Materials Science
→Led company through 59 acquisitions over 26-year tenure, revenue grew 8x to $6B
→Spun off multiple high-tech companies during academic career
→MIT-educated materials scientist (BS and Sc.D. degrees)
→Has a college of engineering and university building named after him