Heald was president of Armour Institute of Technology from 1937 to 1940, at which time it became the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); he served as its president until 1952.[1] He is credited with bringing architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Chicago in 1938 to direct IIT's architecture program.[2] He led a team that investigated the idea of a research institute on the west coast and made proposals that would result in the creation of SRI International.[3]
He appeared on the cover of Time in 1957. In 1959, Heald was awarded the Hoover Medal, which recognizes civic and humanitarian achievements by engineers. A scholarship at IIT is named after him.[4]
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^"Past Presidents". Illinois Institute of Technology. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
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