Dean, School of Engineering

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Thomas Farris was appointed dean of the School of Engineering in 2009. Prior to joining Rutgers, he was an assistant professor at Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and was appointed School Head in 1998. He received a B.S.M.E. from Rice University in 1982, a M.S. degree in Applied Mechanics and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1984 and 1986 respectively. 

 

Associate Dean, Administration and Planning

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Susan Kilduff’s career in higher education administration includes 20 years’ experience in university budget and business management. She is responsible for providing guidance and support for strategic and facilities planning and business operations for the School of Engineering. Prior to her career at Rutgers University, she served as associate dean for finance and administration for the College of Arts and Sciences and as associate budget director for Seton Hall University. She earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Hofstra University and a master’s in public administration from Seton Hall University.

 

Associate Dean, Academic Programs

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Henrik Pedersen joined the Rutgers faculty in 1978 and in 2011 completed nine years as chair of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. He currently serves as the education director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Structured Organic Particulate Systems. Pedersen’s research interests are in the area of biotechnology and biochemical engineering. In particular, he has developed innovative systems using plant cell culture for propagating elite plant cultivars and for synthesis of valuable plant metabolites. He received a B.S. in 1974 from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in 1978 from Yale University.  

Director, Communications and Marketing

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Professor and Chair

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Alberto Cuitiño is currently the Rutgers Site Leader of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems. He received a civil engineering diploma from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1986, a M.S. degree in applied mathematics and a Ph.D. degree in solid mechanics from Brown University in 1992 and 1994, respectively. His research interests include material modeling and simulations, dislocation mechanics, fracture in metal single crystals, granular materials, mechanical behavior of solid foams, and folding patterns in thin films.  Cuitiño was the editor of Mechanics a publication of the American Academy of Mechanics, continues to be the subject editor for Applied Mechanics of Latin American Applied Research, and is part of the editorial board of the International Journal of Plasticity.

 

Professor and Chair

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Nenad Gucunski joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1991 and became chair in 2007. He is the program director for Infrastructure Condition Monitoring Program at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation. Gucunski is an internationally recognized expert in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of transportation infrastructure and an elected member of the Nondestructive Testing (NDT) Academia International. In addition to his extensive work in the development and application of various seismic, ultrasonic, and electromagnetic NDE techniques, he has conducted research in the areas of geotechnical engineering and dynamic soil-structure interaction. He earned his B.S.E. in 1979 at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, his M.S. in 1983, and his Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Michigan.

Professor and Chair

Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

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Marianthi Ierapetritou joined the Rutgers faculty in 1998 and was elected chair of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department in 2013. Her research interests focus on process operations, design and synthesis of flexible manufacturing systems, modeling of reactive flow processes and metabolic engineering. She received the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award in 2012, the Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence in 2004, and the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2000. She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and an active participant in the scientific advising committees of the Engineering Specific Career Advisory Problem-solving Environment (ESCAPE). Ierapetritou received her B.S. degree from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, her Ph.D. in 1995 from the Imperial College, London, and completed post-doctoral research at Princeton University.

Professor and Chair

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Richard L. Lehman joined the Rutgers faculty in 1982 after seven years in the fiberglass and industrial chemical industries. His academic interests center on the glass transition and the processing and properties of inorganic and organic glasses, particularly the mechanical, optical, and chemical behavior of commercially important systems. His current research is focused on the mechanical and chemical properties of polymer blends, with principal attention towards immiscible blends, the behavior of multiphase composite interfaces, and applicability of these systems in structural and biomedical applications. He is also active in developing manufacturing technologies for commercial soda lime silicate glasses, particularly in the area of recycled raw materials. He received a B.S. in 1972, a M.S. in 1975, and a Ph.D. in 1976, all in ceramics and materials engineering from Rutgers University.

Distinguished Professor and Chair

Associate Director of Winlab

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Narayan B. Mandayam joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in September 1996. In 2001, he became an associate professor before being promoted to full professor in 2003. He currently serves as chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as the associate director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). Mandayam received a B.Tech (Hons.) degree in 1989 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1991 and 1994 from Rice University, Houston, TX­—all in electrical engineering. He was a visiting faculty fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University in 2002 and a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Science in 2003. His research interests include smart city design and Internet of Things (IoT), with a focus on techniques for resource allocation and communications. He is the co-author of Principles of Cognitive Radio (2012) and Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design (2005).