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Interim-dean designate named, pending board approval, for engineering college
James E.
Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor
217-244-1073; kloeppel@illinois.edu
4/1/05
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Ilesanmi Adesida has been named interim-dean
designate of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pending approval of
the U. of I. board of trustees.
David Daniel, the dean of the college, will remain in his position through
May, before assuming his new duties as the president of the University
of Texas at Dallas. Adesida, a Willett Professor of Engineering, would
then formally assume the interim-dean position.
Daniel and Adesida will work together in the interim to assure an orderly
transition.
“Professor Adesida brings a record of outstanding scientific and
engineering accomplishment, administrative experience and understanding
of the challenges and opportunities facing the college, a great capacity
for working effectively with colleagues, and a genuine enthusiasm for
engaging with us all in assuring that the college moves vigorously forward
in the months ahead,” said Richard Herman, the interim chancellor
of the Urbana campus. “He has our full confidence, and we are
delighted that he has agreed to take on this critical leadership position.”
Adesida, the director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, has
been at Illinois since 1987. He is a professor of electrical and computer
engineering and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science
and Technology. He also is a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, and of the American Vacuum Society. He is the current president-elect
of the IEEE.
A committee is being formed and will be announced shortly to conduct
a national search for new permanent leadership of the college, Acting
Provost Jesse Delia said.
