CEC adds two new Deans to Deans Leadership Team
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| Dr. Hanif Chaudhry, Associate Dean for International Programs and Continuing Education | |
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| Dr. Harry Ploehn, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies | |
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As Associate Dean for International Programs and Continuing Education, Dr. Chaudhry will be responsible for two distinct areas:
- Activities related to international programs for the College and
- Distance learning at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.
The first of these two areas, international programs, will involve faculty and student exchanges, collaborative relationships, memorandums of understanding (such as the recent MOU with Egypt), and agreements for academics and research.
Distance learning will include short courses, joint degree programs, and more.
Chaudhry has been the Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Kahn Professor and Chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the last 10 years.
In the position of Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Dr. Ploehn's responsibilities will be to aid CEC's faculty to become more competitive for research funding and to help faculty do a better job in recruiting and educating graduate students.
Says Ploehn, "My philosophy is to work on 'fundamentals': help individual researchers to write better, more polished proposals; help researchers to find the right collaborators and equipment to do more and better quality research; and to do a better job of identifying and marketing our research strengths, within the University and outside, so we can better plug in to large center-type proposals."
Ploehn will also be working closely with all of the Graduate Directors to try to raise the quality of all of CEC's graduate programs, especially doctoral programs, increasing CEC's ability to do a better job in educating graduate students.
Ploehn has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering for the past twelve years, having served as the department's Graduate Director for seven years of those years. Ploehn also served for two years on the Graduate Council of the Graduate School.
Says, Dr. Michael D. Amiridis, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing, "We are very fortunate to have these two faculty members join our Deans Leadership Team. Both have shown strong skills in the areas they now occupy. Their addition will strengthen our college and aid us in our goal of becoming one of - if not the - top engineering and computing schools in the Southeast."
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