Engineering STEM


Lance Collins Named Dean of College of Engineering First African American Dean for Cornell Engineering


ance R. Collins, professor and the S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer- ing at Cornell, has been named the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering for a five-year term beginning July 1, Provost Kent Fuchs announced today. “Lance Collins already is recognized in and beyond his col-


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lege as a university leader, as evidenced by his role on the univer- sity’s Strategic Plan Advisory Council,” said Cornell President David Skorton, “and those strong leadership abilities will serve him, and Engineering, well as dean.” Added Fuchs: “Lance has impeccable research credentials


and a deep commitment to teaching. He also has demonstrated strong abilities as an administrator, while steering his department through very challenging times.” The College of Engineering is recognized as an international


leader in engineering science, offering multidisciplinary under- graduate and graduate academic programs that focus on advanc- ing human knowledge through research and excellence in educa- tion to create a better future for all. The college is an active participant in initiatives connecting many disciplines and span- ning multiple colleges. These initiatives endeavor to solve com- plex and challenging problems in such fields as nanoscience, sustainable engineering, energy and the environment, biomedi- cal engineering, complex systems and networks, advanced mate- rials and information science. Collins will be the chief academic and administrative officer


for the college, which has about 240 faculty, 250 non-professori- al academics, nearly 3,000 undergraduate and 1,400 graduate students and about 225 staff. As a member of Cornell’s senior administration team, the dean reports to the provost and works closely with other deans and executive officers on behalf of the university as a whole. “I consider the College of Engineering to be one of the crown


jewels of the university, and one of the finest engineering col- leges in the nation and the world,” Collins said. “I am both hon- ored and humbled in accepting the deanship.” Collins joined Cornell in 2002, following 11 years as assistant


professor, associate professor and professor of chemical engi- neering at Pennsylvania State University. Since 1999, he has also held a joint appointment in the mechanical and nuclear engineer- ing department at Penn State, and in 1998 he was a visiting sci- entist at the Laboratoire de Combustion et Systemes Reactifs (a National Center for Scientific Research laboratory in Orleans, France) and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was director of graduate studies for aerospace engineering at Cornell 2003- 05, and he served this academic year on Cornell’s Strategic Plan Advisory Council. Collins’ research combines simulation and theory to study a


variety of turbulent flow processes. His work on mechanisms of droplet breakup in turbulence was recognized with the 1997 Best


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Paper Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Soci- ety.


He earned his B.S.E. in 1981 at Princeton University and his


M.S. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1987 at the University of Pennsyl- vania, all in chemical engineering. Fuchs also expressed his appreciation for the leadership of the


college’s interim dean, Professor Christopher Ober. “I want to thank Chris for his exceptional service to Cornell and for ably leading the College of Engineering through a very challenging period during the past year and a half.” Source: Cornell University Chronicle Reprinted by Permission www.news.cornell.edu


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