Terence Dwyer Named Alumni Fellow

11 October 2004 — Terence J. Dwyer, of Harding, New Jersey, who received his bachelor's degree from the Eberly College of Science at Penn State in 1970, has been named an Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association. Established in 1973, the award, which is a lifelong title conferred upon its recipient, is the most prestigious honor given by the association.

Dwyer was chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering at BEA Systems in San Jose, California, until his retirement in 2002. He led the Office of Technology and Engineering, which provides research and software development to the engineering groups within BEA’s product divisions.

Dwyer began his career designing and writing software and supervising software teams for Bell Laboratories. During his twenty years at Bell Labs, Dwyer and his team developed the TUXEDO™ System, a software package for building and managing Distributed Business Applications that is used in a variety of industries worldwide. In 1996 the TUXEDO™ System and programming team were acquired by BEA Systems, where Dwyer became the company’s first vice president of engineering and, in 2000, was appointed BEA’s chief technology officer.

He was honored in 2001 by the Eberly College of Science with the Outstanding Science Alumni Award.

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