May 10, 2001 FORUMS START TODAY FOR PURDUE DEAN CANDIDATES Source: Richard Cosier, (765) 494-4366, [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ‹ Open forums begin today (Thursday, 5/10) for the first of four final candidates for dean of the Purdue Schools of Engineering. The four finalists and their public forum dates and times are: € Mark Kushner, a professor and interim head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2 p.m. today (Thursday, 5/10) in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. € W. Kent Fuchs, head of the Purdue School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Birck Distinguished Professor, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. € Way Kuo, Texas A&M University's Royce E. Wisenbaker Chair Professor of Engineering in Innovation, executive associate dean for the Look College of Engineering and associate vice chancellor of engineering, 2:30 p.m. Monday, May 21, in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. € Linda Katehi, associate dean for academic affairs in the University of Michigan's College of Engineering and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, 2 p.m. Thursday, May 31, in the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall. The current dean, Richard Schwartz, will step down June 30. He was named dean in 1995 and began his teaching career at Purdue 36 years ago. At 65, he has reached the mandatory retirement age for senior Purdue administrators. The finalists were recommended by a search committee of faculty, staff and students. Richard Cosier, dean of Purdue's Krannert School of Management and the Leeds Professor of Management, chaired the committee. The national search yielded 40 applicants. Each of the candidates are scheduled to spend two days on campus, meeting with a cross section of the university, including faculty, staff, students and Purdue administrators. At the open forums, each candidate will make brief remarks regarding their vision for the Schools of Engineering. A question-and-answer session will follow. With an undergraduate enrollment of nearly 6,000, graduate enrollment of about 1,800 and a faculty of about 270, Purdue's engineering program is one of the largest in the United States. It encompasses 13 schools, departments and divisions. Writer: Emil Venere, (765) 494-4709, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Jeanne Norberg, director Purdue University News Service 1132 Engineering Admin. Bldg. West Lafayette, IN 47907-1132 Phone: 765-494-2096 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
