BILL NUMBER: SCR 30	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  110
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 16, 2015
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  APRIL 30, 2015
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 13, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hill

                        MARCH 11, 2015

   Relative to the Frederick E. Terman Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 30, Hill. Frederick E. Terman Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 101 in the County of Santa Clara as the Frederick E. Terman
Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of
Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Frederick E. Terman was one of the most successful
American administrators of science, engineering, and higher education
in the 20th century; and
   WHEREAS, Terman was born on June 7, 1900, in English, Indiana.
Terman attended Stanford University, where he completed his
undergraduate degree in chemistry and his master's degree in
electrical engineering; and
   WHEREAS, Terman returned to Stanford University in 1925 as a
member of the engineering faculty and for his first 12 years he was
the only faculty member teaching electronics (or radio engineering,
as it was called at the time). In 1932, Terman wrote and published a
textbook on Radio Engineering, which was one of the most important
books on electrical and radio engineering and remains a good
reference on these subjects; and
   WHEREAS, Terman worked hard to bolster electrical engineering and
technology in California at a time when most engineering job
opportunities were on the East Coast. Terman was elected president of
the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1940, the first person ever,
west of Pittsburgh, to be elected; and
   WHEREAS, During World War II, Terman directed a staff of more than
850 at the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University, an
organization that was the source of various technologies used to
counter enemy radar during the war. These countermeasures
significantly reduced the effectiveness of radar-directed
anti-aircraft fire; and
   WHEREAS, After the war, Terman returned to Stanford University and
was appointed Dean of the School of Engineering. Terman made the
Stanford School of Engineering one of the best in the country. By
1950, Stanford University awarded as many electrical engineering
Ph.D. degrees as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a
much smaller faculty. Terman laid the foundations that would make
Stanford University one of the world's preeminent research
universities from which many major Silicon Valley corporations have
been formed, including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Yahoo!, Rambus,
Google, and VMWare; and
   WHEREAS, Terman single-handedly created the university,
government, and private industry partnership model that still
characterizes Silicon Valley in the 21st century by creating the
Stanford Industrial Park, a revolutionary idea at the time, to
associate industry more closely with the university. Companies such
as Varian Associates, Hewlett-Packard, Eastman Kodak, General
Electric, and Lockheed Corporation moved into Stanford Industrial
Park and turned the mid-Peninsula area into a hotbed of innovation,
which eventually became known as Silicon Valley. Terman encouraged
the licensing of Stanford University inventions and the establishing
of faculty-consulting relations as a means of getting Stanford
University ideas into the core of industry; and
   WHEREAS, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were two of Terman's
favorite engineering students, and certainly his most successful
prot�g�s. Following his encouragement, they formed Hewlett-Packard.
Years later, they left behind a Fortune Global 500 company that sells
products around the world and multiple multibillion dollar
charitable foundations; and
   WHEREAS, Frederick E. Terman passed away on December 19, 1982, in
Palo Alto, California, at 82 years of age. In his declining years,
Terman reflected, "When we set out to create a community of technical
scholars in Silicon Valley, there wasn't much here and the rest of
the world looked awfully big. Now a lot of the rest of the world is
here"; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 101 from postmile 48.596, at Shoreline
Boulevard, to post mile 52.550, at the San Mateo County line, in the
County of Santa Clara, as the Frederick E. Terman Memorial Highway;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those signs; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.