<p>Ohio State Hires Dean for Engineering College</p>
<p>Friday, March 18, 2011 01:40 PM
By Charlie Boss</p>
<p>The Columbus Dispatch</p>
<p>Ohio State’s College of Engineering will soon have a new dean, officials announced today.</p>
<p>David B. Williams, president of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, will assume the post that has been vacant since William “Bud” Baeslack III left to become provost at Case Western Reserve University in 2008.</p>
<p>Pending approval by the board of trustees, Williams’ appointment will begin April 18. He will earn $395,000.</p>
<p>Gregory Washington, professor of mechanical engineering, will continue to serve as interim dean of the college until Williams arrives.</p>
<p>“We are very fortunate to have attracted David Williams to Ohio State,” President E. Gordon Gee said in a statement. “He has a superb track record as a scholar and an academic leader, and he has created substantial partnerships to spur innovation and the commercialization of faculty discoveries.”</p>
<p>At Alabama, Williams, 62, helped lead the university in operating an office for Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and creating research collaboration agreement with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, which designs and produces rocket engines.</p>
<p>He also guided the campus through its largest reduction in state funding - 28 percent since spring 2008 - and the shootings of six faculty and staff members by another professor last year.</p>
<p>A native of Leeds, England, Williams holds a bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate and a doctorate of science degrees from the University of Cambridge.</p>
<p>“David Williams has a world-class academic reputation, and his work in building research partnerships between universities and industry and government is well-proven,” Jeff Wadsworth, president and CEO of Battelle, said in a statement.</p>
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<p>University of Cambridge!! Go Bucks!!! :)</p>