03-23-04

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEAN CANDIDATES TO VISIT IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

AMES, Iowa -- Four candidates for dean of the College of Engineering will visit campus beginning April 6.

The dean candidates include:

• Timothy Anderson, associate dean of research and graduate programs, College of Engineering; andprofessor of chemical engineering, University of Florida at Gainesville
• Prith Banerjee, department chair and Walter P. Murphy Professor, electrical and computerengineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
• Mark Kushner, Founder Professor of engineering at the University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign
• Stella Pang, associate dean for graduate education, College of Engineering; and professor,department of electrical engineering and computer science, Solid State Electronics Laboratory, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor.

Anderson will interview on April 6 and 7; Kushner on April 8 and 9; Pang on April 12 and 13; and Banerjee on April 14and 15.

"I am proud of the dedicated committee members who have worked diligently to identify a slate of proven academicleaders, who are also preeminent scholars in their field and disciplines," said Walter Gmelch, dean of the College ofEducation and search committee chair.

An open forum with each of the candidates will be from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the first day of their visits. A receptionwill immediately follow each forum in the Howe Hall atrium. Following is the schedule and location for each forum:

• Anderson, April 6, Alliant Energy -- Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
• Kushner, April 8, Alliant Energy -- Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
• Pang, April 12, Alliant Energy -- Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
• Banerjee, April 14, Alliant Energy -- Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

In addition, an hour-long open discussion on diversity will be held on the second day of each candidate's visit. Thosetimes and locations are:

• Anderson, April 7, 2 to 3 p.m., 114 Marston Hall
• Kushner, April 9, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., 114 Marston Hall
• Pang, April 13, 2 to 3 p.m., 114 Marston Hall
• Banerjee, April 15, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., 114 Marston Hall

The successful candidate will succeed College of Engineering Dean James Melsa, who will retire at the end of thecurrent academic year.

Additional information on the candidates is available below, and their complete vitae are online at:http://www.provost.iastate.edu/positions/dean_eng.html.The full schedules for campus visits are also posted there.

Timothy Anderson
Anderson has been at the University of Florida since 1978. He has served as assistant professor, associate professorand professor in the University of Florida's chemical engineering department, and was department chair from 1991 to2003. Currently, Anderson is associate dean of research and graduate programs there. He holds four patents. Andersonearned 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 ofOttumwa, Iowa.

Prith Banerjee
Banerjee has been chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston,Ill., since 1998. He also is director of the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing. Previously, Banerjee wasdirector of computational science and engineering, and professor of electrical and computer engineering, CoordinatedScience Laboratory, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between 2001 and 2002, while on leave fromNorthwestern, Banerjee founded AccelChip, Inc., a company based on technology developed at Northwestern. He continuesto provide technical leadership for AccelChip as chief scientist and a member of its board of directors. Banerjeereceived his doctoral (1984) and master's (1982) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. Heearned a bachelor's degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur, India.

Mark Kushner
Kushner has been Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, since 1999, and aprofessor at the university since 1991. He has held various engineering roles at Illinois since 1986, includingassistant professor, associate professor, assistant dean of academic programs, interim associate dean of administrativeaffairs, and interim head of electrical and computer engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering. Hisindustrial experience includes one year as a physicist at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, N.M.; two years as aphysicist, Advanced Lasers and Laser Isotope Separation Programs, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore,Calif.; and three years as principal research scientist and director of electron, atomic and molecular physics, SpectraTechnology, Inc., Bellevue, Wash. 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 innuclear engineering and astronomy from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.

Stella Pang
Stella Pang has been associate dean for graduate education in the University of Michigan's College of Engineering since2002. She joined the University of Michigan in 1990 as an associate professor of electrical engineering and computerscience, and in 1996 was promoted to professor. Pang has served as a visiting professor in Hong Kong, Japan andDenmark. From 1981 to 1989, she worked as a technical staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology'sLincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass. Pang holds nine patents, was the recipient of a Career Advancement Award from theNational Science Foundation, and is a fellow of four professional associations. She received her doctoral (1981) andmaster's (1978) degrees from Princeton University, N.J. She earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and computerengineering in 1977 from Brown University, Providence, R.I.

-30-