{"id":56949,"date":"2017-03-06T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=56949"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:48:57","slug":"college-of-engineering-dean-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/06\/college-of-engineering-dean-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Engineering dean finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_57002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57002\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/manoa-engineering-candidates-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/manoa-engineering-candidates-2017.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/manoa-engineering-candidates-2017-260x111.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Smits, Vimal Chaitanya and Andrew Szeri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">Three finalists have been identified for the position of dean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\">College of Engineering<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa. The finalists are scheduled to participate in a two-day period of visits on the M&#257;noa campus. The visits include department discussions; meetings with senior administrators, faculty, staff, students and internal and external constituents; and a public presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Campus and community members, as well as the general public, are encouraged to attend. <\/p>\n<p>The campus visits of the three candidates have been scheduled as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexander Smits<\/strong><br \/>\nEugene Higgins Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, director, Gas Dynamics Laboratory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/\">Princeton Univeristy<\/a><br \/>\nVisit: March 20&#8211;21, public presentation, March 21, 3&#8211;4:15 p.m., Kuykendall Auditorium 101<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/engr\/pdf\/Smits%20Bio.pdf\">Biography<\/a> <small>(<abbr title=\"portable document format\">PDF<\/abbr>)<\/small> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/engr\/pdf\/Smits%20CV%20website.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a> <small>(<abbr>PDF<\/abbr>)<\/small><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vimal Chaitanya<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor and director, Energy Research Lab, College of Engineering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/\">New Mexico State University<\/a><br \/>\nVisit: April 6&#8211;7, public presentation, April 7, 3&#8211;4:15 p.m., Kuykendall Auditorium 101<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/engr\/pdf\/Chaitanya%20Bio.pdf\">Biography<\/a> <small>(<abbr>PDF<\/abbr>)<\/small> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/engr\/pdf\/Chaitanya%20CV%20website.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a> <small>(<abbr>PDF<\/abbr>)<\/small><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Szeri<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\" \">University of California, Berkeley<\/a><br \/>\nVisit: April 10&#8211;11, public presentation, April 11, 3&#8211;4:15 p.m., Kuykendall Auditorium 101<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/engr\/pdf\/Szeri%20Bio.pdf\">Biography<\/a> <small>(<abbr>PDF<\/abbr>)<\/small> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.me.berkeley.edu\/people\/faculty\/andrew-szeri\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;The Search Advisory Committee has done an excellent job of identifying a pool of highly qualified candidates. I would like to thank the Search Advisory Committee for their time and effort in identifying these three finalists, as well as their dedication and commitment to the College of Engineering and <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa,&rdquo; said Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Vice Chancellor for Research <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/ovcr\/bio-bruno.html\">Michael Bruno<\/a><\/strong>. &ldquo;As always, we encourage <abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty, staff, students and the public to come out and meet the candidates, and we look forward to receiving their feedback.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the search process, including a list of the members of the search advisory committee, the campus visit daily schedule and the candidate biographies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/executivesearch\/engr\">see the search website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Smits, Vimal Chaitanya and Andrew Szeri are finalists for dean of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s College of Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28],"tags":[691,179,626,9],"class_list":["post-56949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","tag-administration","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-executive-search","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56949"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78769,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56949\/revisions\/78769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}