Ilene Busch-Vishniac is an American-born mechanical engineer and university administrator.
10 Facts About Ilene Busch-Vishniac
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac served as Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University from 1998 to 2003 then resigned the position to serve as President of the Acoustical Society of America, an elected non-gratis position, from 2003 to 2005.
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac served as Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at McMaster University from 2007 to 2012, and as President of the University of Saskatchewan from 2012 to 2014.
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac has written research papers for the ASME on matters related to tribology.
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac then received her master's degree in 1978 and her PhD in 1981, both in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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In December 2011, Ilene Busch-Vishniac was selected as the ninth President of the University of Saskatchewan, replacing Peter MacKinnon with effect from July 2012.
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac criticized the decision the next day, and invited the former executive director to return as a professor.
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In June, 2015, Ilene Busch-Vishniac filed a lawsuit over her firing seeking $8.5 million in damages, naming Saskatchewan Premier, Brad Wall, former Minister of Advanced Education, Rob Norris, as well as the university and Board of Governors and alleging that both the Premier and former Minister unlawfully influenced the Board's decision in her firing.
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac received the ASA Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics in 2001 for her work in developing novel electret microphones and of precision micro-electro-mechanical sensors and positioners.
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1987, and received the ASA R Bruce Lindsay Award.