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William White is an educator and researcher whose career has been defined by a passionate commitment to robotics education and interdisciplinary engineering pedagogy. Working at the intersection of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science, White has dedicated decades to demonstrating how robotics platforms can serve as powerful, unifying vehicles for hands-on undergraduate learning. His most influential contribution, "A Multidisciplinary Model For Using Robotics In Engineering Education" (2020, 60 citations), argues that advances in affordable robot kits have made immersive, cross-disciplinary instruction accessible to institutions that previously lacked the resources to offer it. This work builds on a foundation he began establishing as early as 2004, when he introduced an undergraduate robotics course using the Handy Board, and formalized through his widely recognized 2005 work on multidisciplinary teamwork in robotics courses, which has accumulated over 35 citations across multiple venues. White has also contributed innovative curricular concepts, including "breadth-last technical electives" — courses designed to help computer science students synthesize their entire undergraduate education into a coherent whole. With consistent output across assessment, course design, and pedagogy, White stands as a thoughtful architect of modern engineering education.