Fulton Schools Leadership History
Engineering Deans
- Lee P. Thompson (Founding Dean, 1955–1978)
- C. Roland Haden (Founder of Engineering Excellence, 1978–1987; 1989–1991)
- George Beakley (Interim, 1988–1989)
- Chuck Backus (Interim, 1991–1992)
- Morris Chang (1992–1994)
- Dan Jankowksi (Interim, 1994–1995)
- Peter Crouch (1995–2005)
- Paul Johnson (Interim, 2005–2006)
- Deirdre Meldrum, Dean
Paul Johnson, Executive Dean (2006–2011) - Paul Johnson (2011–2015)
- Kyle Squires (2016-)
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Leadership:
Eric J. Guilbeau, chair, 2000-2006
Metin Akay, chair, 2006-2008
William Ditto, chair, 2008-2009, director, 2009-2011
Marco Santello, interim director, 2011-2012
Marco Santello, director, 2012-2022
Heather Clark, director, 2022-
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
(Formerly the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering)
Leadership:
William E. Lewis, chair, 1980-1984
Ben M. Huey, acting chair, 1985-1986
Robert Barnhill, chair, 1986-1991
Ben M. Huey, chair, 1991-1994
Sik-Sang Yau, chair, 1994-2001
Charles Colbourn, chair, 2001-2002
Sethuraman Panchanathan, director, 2002-2009
Ronald Askin, director, 2009–2016
Sandeep Gupta, interim director, 2016–2017
Sandeep Gupta, director 2017-2022
K. Selcuk Candan, interim co-director, 2022
Teresa Wu, interim co-director, 2022
Ross Maciejewski, director, 2022-
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Leadership:
Russell L. Riese, chair, 1959-1963
Truet B. Thompson, chair, 1963-1967
Thomas Tice, chair, 1967-1979
Richard Kelly, chair, 1979-1983
Richard Saeks, chair, 1983-1988
Peter Crouch, chair, 1988-1989
David Ferry, chair, 1989-1992
Peter Crouch, chair, 1992-1995
Richard Kelly, chair, 1995-1996
Stephen Goodnick, chair, 1996-2005
Stephen Phillips, chair, 2005-2009, director, 2009-
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Leadership:
Kyle Squires, director, 2009–2015
Lenore Dai, interim director, 2015
Lenore Dai, director, 2015–
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
Leadership:
Binil Starly, director, 2022-
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Leadership:
Paul Westerhoff, director, 2009-2010
G. Edward (Edd) Gibson, Jr., interim director, 2010-2011
G. Edward (Edd) Gibson, Jr., director, 2011-2018
Ram Pendyala, interim director, 2018-2019
Ram Pendyala, director, 2020-
The Polytechnic School
Leadership:
Keith Hjelmstad, dean, College of Technology and Innovation, 2008-2011
Mitzi Montoya, dean, College of Technology and Innovation, 2011-2014
Ann McKenna, director, 2014-2019
Leila Ladani, director, 2019-2020
Ann McKenna, interim director, 2021-
Notes:
- The College of Applied Arts and Sciences was established in 1955. In 1956, the first bachelor’s degree program in engineering was approved. The School of Engineering was created in 1958.
- In 2009, as part of a broad transformation of the engineering schools, 10 traditional departments were reorganized into five transdiciplinary schools.
- The Polytechnic School was the College of Technology and Innovation from 1996-2014 before being renamed The Polytechnic School and becoming the sixth school in the Fulton Schools of Engineering in 2014.
- The School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering was renamed the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence in the fall of 2021.
- A new Fulton school, the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, was established in the fall of 2021.