CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, CNIT DEPARTMENT INSTRUCTOR,
MID-PACIFIC ICT (MPICT) CENTER PI
 Dr.
Pierre Thiry has been a full-time instructor at City College
of San Francisco (CCSF) since 1984. He truly enjoys the
challenges offered to him by the City College environment.
He began teaching in the Engineering Department and
transferred to the Computer Information Systems (CIS) in 1998.
In 2002, he became the first chair of the newly formed
Computer Networking and Information Technology (CNIT)
Department, where he is still an Instructor and the main
contact for the Cisco Regional Networking Academy.
From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Thiry was Principal Investigator of
the Institute for Convergence of Optical and Network Systems
(ICONS), funded with a $750K National Science Foundation (NSF)
Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant to educate
technicians in converged network technologies at the leading
edge of communications technology trends. ICONS utilized
state-of-the-art converged optical voice, video and data
network facilities at CCSF as a teaching environment. With
ICONS assistance, CNIT became a Microsoft IT Academy, a
Pearson VUE Authorized Center for Testing and the first
Juniper Networks Academic Alliance member in North America.
Dr. Thiry spends about 60% of his time now as Principal
Investigator (PI) of the Mid-Pacific ICT (MPICT) Center,
established in October 2008 with a $3 million NSF ATE grant.
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is an
umbrella term, widely used outside the U.S. and in the U.N.,
to encompass all rapidly emerging, evolving and converging
computer, software, networking, telecommunications, Internet,
programming and information systems technologies.
MPICT’s mission is to coordinate, promote and improve ICT
education, with an emphasis on 2-year colleges, in northern
California, northern Nevada, southern Oregon, Hawaii and the
Pacific Territories.
Dr. Thiry is a member of the CCSF Curriculum and Career
Technical Education Committees. He is also the Faculty advisor
of the IEEE Student Club and Chapter.
He is co-author of a textbook in Mechanical Machines
Theory and has written over thirty articles, mostly pertaining
to Bioengineering. He is a registered Mechanical Engineer in
California and holds CCNA, CCAI and Network+ Certifications.
He was also Coordinator of Environmental Technology and
Director of the Regional Environmental Business and Assistance
Center from 1994 to 1998.
He was the PTA president of the Longfellow Middle School
in Berkeley in 2004-2005, and he enjoys listening to classical
music, keeping fit by visiting the Berkeley YMCA almost daily,
running an occasional half marathon and riding his bicycle in
the East Bay hills.
Pierre Thiry has an Ingénieur (Mécanique & Electricité)
degree from the University of Louvain, Belgium and a Masters
of Science in Applied Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Engineering
Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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