Daggers are sheathed and the rumor mill is on low at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) following the ouster of President Harold Liebowitz and the arrival on July 17 of an interim replacement, William A. Wulf, Professor of Engineering, on leave from the University of Virginia. "We're trying to pick up the pieces," Wulf told SGR in a telephone conversation last week. The problems to be dealt with, he said, include staff morale, battered under Liebowitz's loner style of management, and "perceptions on the part of the members that the NAE is controlled by an old-boy network." Wulf sounded optimistic, saying the morale is "better than I expected," and that the members are eager to help. In the works, he said, are reforms to broaden membership participation in the NAE's governance—a roundabout concession to the grievances that Liebowitz exploited in winning the NAE Presidency last year as an anti-establishment candidate.
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机译：在哈罗德·利博维茨（Harold Liebowitz）总统被免职以及7月17日临时替任者工程学教授威廉·A·沃夫（William A. Wulf）离开美国后，美国国家工程院（NAE）的匕首被刺穿，谣言工厂处于低谷。弗吉尼亚大学。沃夫在上周的一次电话交谈中对SGR表示：“我们正在努力解决问题。”他说，要解决的问题包括，员工的士气，在利勃维茨的独来独往的管理风格下受到打击，以及“成员们的看法是，NAE是由一个老派网络控制的。”沃夫听起来很乐观，他说他们的士气“好于我的预期”，而且成员们渴望提供帮助。他说，在工作中正在进行改革，以扩大成员对NAE治理的参与–这是对Liebowitz去年在赢得NAE轮值主席国中作为反建制候选人所利用的不满情绪的round回让步。
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