HOME >> Political Service >> Biography Dr. A. V. (Sheenu) Srinivasan Biography Dr. Sheenu Srinivasan was born in Amruthur, a village 60 miles northwest of the city of Bangalore in southern India. He was the sixth of nine children and received his high school education and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Bangalore. He left India in 1961 to study engineering at the University of Iowa where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1965. He married Kamla when they were both graduate students at the University of Iowa. Sheenu began his working career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in 1965. In 1966 he and Kamla moved to Connecticut where he took a job at Kaman Aircraft Corporation. In 1970 they moved to Glastonbury. Sheenu and Kamla have two daughters, Asha and Sandhya, both born and raised in town. Sheenu next worked at Pratt & Whitney and United Technologies Research Center until 1992. While at United Technologies he earned a Master's in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was invited to serve the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research as a technical advisor from 1990-1991. Throughout his career Sheenu has maintained an active academic life, teaching as an adjunct professor at the Hartford Graduate Center (now Rensselaer Hartford), Yale University, the University of Connecticut and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He now works part time as Director, Technology & Business at Quality Engineering & Software Technologies. Sheenu has been an active member in the Glastonbury and greater Hartford community for over thirty years. In 1997, Sheenu won election as a Glastonbury Town Council Member in an historic 6-3 Democratic majority. In 1999, he was re-elected to the Council and served as Vice Chairman. In 2001, Sheenu was named Democrat of the Year by the Glastonbury Democratic Town Committee. In that same year, Sheenu was invited to teach for a semester at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He and Kamla left Glastonbury shortly after the conclusion of his second term on the Town Council and returned at the end of the semester. Sheenu’s community involvement includes his membership on the Board of Directors of the World Affairs Council in Hartford from 1969 to 1975 and more recently he served as a Facilitator for the Connecticut Conversations in 1994. He is a member of the Inter-Religious Committee for Understanding in Hartford and a member of Glastonbury’s Interfaith Council.
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