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Prof.
Martin Patt was born in Medford,
Massachusetts and was raised nearby in a
working class neighborhood in Malden,
just a stone’s throw from the original Converse Rubber Company factory on Pearl Street. As a boy, he helped in his father’s
business, Patt’s Variety Store, where he rubbed
elbows daily with factory workers and their families. This produced an abiding respect for the
workingman who was struggling to support his family and make ends meet. Later in life, Prof. Patt
founded the Patt Special Fund, a philanthropic
entity that he set up to honor his parents, Abraham and Sarah Patt A”H, through charitable giving.
At
the University of Mass in Lowell,
over a span of four decades, Prof. Patt taught a
variety of graduate and undergraduate subjects in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, and Mathematics. He
contributed to the creation of UMASS-Lowell's Introduction to Engineering
- Basic Computer Skills Course and authored the classic Freshman
Computer Skills Manual.
 Prof. Patt's research was
devoted to the development of independent learning tools for use with very
large classes supported by minimum staff.
Other research interests included Application-Based Computer Language
Efficiency, Processing of Large Data Streams, and the Empirical Development
of Aircraft Antennas and Antenna Arrays.
During
his last few years at UML, Prof. Patt managed a
friendly “Challenge” on the web featuring problems of math and logic. In retirement, he follows his varied
interests with passion, one of which was the creation and maintenance of
three educational websites that serve as resources for college students and
others who are investigating Human
Trafficking, Street Children
and/or Child Prostitution in their
respective countries. These
content-packed sites focus on the three problems country-by-country, thereby
contributing to their solution by encouraging broad-scale awareness through
education.
Prof.
Patt has been a major contributor to local Jewish
day schools, high schools and colleges in Greater Boston. He is a member of the Heritage Society of
the Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, the
Legacy Society of Brandeis University and the Katharine Dexter McCormick Society
of M.I.T. He serves on the Board of
Directors of Congregation Beth Israel of Malden and on the Board of Trustees of the
CBI Ruderman Fund.
Prof.
Patt is a graduate of Northeastern University
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi Societies. He is devoted to his family, to his
friends, and to the success of his students, and still looks forward to a
time when men will look beyond their immediate self-interests, and will
support one another and live in peace.
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