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Cover Story
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Four candidates vying for dean of the College of Engineering visited the Iowa State campus in early and mid-April. Their interview schedules included open forums with members of the Iowa State community and diversity discussions. Iowa State President Gregory Geoffroy and Provost Ben Allen will make the final decision with input from the university. The new dean will be in place by summer.  The four candidates are: 1. Timothy Anderson Anderson has been at the University of Florida since 1978. He has served as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the University of Florida’s chemical engineering department and was department chair from 1991 to 2003. Currently, Anderson is associate dean of research and graduate programs there. He holds four patents. Anderson earned his doctoral (1980) and master’s (1975) degrees in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Iowa State in 1973. Anderson is a native of Ottumwa, Iowa. 2. Prith Banerjee Banerjee has been chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1998. He also is director of the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing. Previously, Banerjee was director of computational science and engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between 2001 and 2002, while on leave from Northwestern, Banerjee founded AccelChip, Inc., a company based on technology developed at Northwestern. He continues to provide technical leadership for AccelChip as chief scientist and a member of its board of directors. Banerjee received his doctoral (1984) and master’s (1982) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. 3. Mark Kushner Kushner has been Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, since 1999 and a professor at the university since 1991. He has held various engineering roles at Illinois since 1986, including assistant professor, associate professor, assistant dean of academic programs, interim associate dean of administrative affairs, and interim head of electrical and computer engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering. His industrial experience includes one year as a physicist at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico; two years as a physicist, Advanced Lasers and Laser Isotope Separation Programs, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and three years as principal research scientist and director of electron, atomic, and molecular physics at Spectra Technology, Inc., Bellevue, Washington. He holds three patents. Kushner earned his doctoral (1979) and master’s (1977) degrees in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He earned bachelor’s degrees in nuclear engineering and astronomy from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976. 4. Stella Pang Pang has been associate dean for graduate education in the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering since 2002. She joined the University of Michigan in 1990 as an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and in 1996 was promoted to professor. Pang has served as a visiting professor in Hong Kong, Japan, and Denmark. From 1981 to 1989, she worked as a technical staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts. Pang holds nine patents, was the recipient of a Career Advancement Award from the National Science Foundation, and is a fellow of four professional associations. She received her doctoral (1981) and master’s (1978) degrees from Princeton University in New Jersey. She earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1977 from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. |
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