Dear Members of the UMBC Community,
I am writing to announce the search for UMBC’s new Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology to replace Dean Julia Ross who will have served, with distinction, in that position for the past three years. This national search will begin immediately and continue through the current semester with the intent of appointing the new Dean prior to the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester.
Dr. Mark Marten, Professor and Interim Chair of the department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering, has kindly agreed to chair the search committee. Under the leadership of Dr. Marten, I have appointed a search committee to assist the University in identifying our new Dean and we have engaged the services of an executive search firm, Storbeck/Pimentel, to assist the committee in its work. The names of the members of the committee are listed below, each of whom has my sincere gratitude for agreeing to take on this critical institutional responsibility and their service and commitment to the future of the College and UMBC.
The committee will reach out to the University to receive input on the desired personal and professional characteristics of our new Dean in order to develop the criteria that will guide the search and the selection process. The committee will also share with the UMBC community the progress of the search over the coming weeks. I know that all of us will do what we can to support the committee in their execution of this important task.
SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Provost Philip Rous
- Tulay Adali, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
- Lee Blaney, Assistant Professor of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
- Zhiyuan Chen, Associate Professor of Information Systems
- Charles Eggleton, Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Aryya Gangopadhyay, Chair and Professor of Information Systems
- Amy Hurst, Associate Professor of Information Systems
- Anupam Joshi, Chair and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
- William LaCourse, Dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Erin Lavik, Professor of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
- Mark Marten, Interim Chair and Professor of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
- Janet Rutledge, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
- Gymama Slaughter, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
- Anne Spence, Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering & Dean’s Office
- Karl Steiner, Vice President for Research and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Yelena Yesha, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research
- Weidong Zhu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Marc Zupan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Antonio Moreira, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering (ex-officio)
- Greg Simmons, Vice President for Institutional Advancement (ex-officio)
- Jack Suess, Vice President of Information Technology (ex-officio)
