Leo Stanley Crane was a railroad executive who served as CEO of Southern Railway. Trained as a chemical engineer,Crane was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978. After retiring from Southern Railway,he worked for Conrail where he later endowed the L. Stanley Crane Chair of engineering in applied sciences at his alma mater,George Washington University.
Washington State University is a public land-grant research university with its flagship,and oldest,campus in Pullman,Washington. Founded in 1890,WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant universities in the American West. With an undergraduate enrollment of 24,278 and a total enrollment of 28,581,it is the second largest institution for higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity".
Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita,Kansas,United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The university offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in nine colleges. The university's graduate school offers more than 50 master's degrees in more than 100 areas and a specialist in education degree and 13 doctoral degrees. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
The ABET is a non-governmental organization that accredits post-secondary education programs in applied and natural sciences,computing,engineering and engineering technology.
Neva Irene Martin Abelson was a distinguished research physician who co-discovered the life-saving blood test for the Rh blood factor.
Paul Ernest Torgersen was the 14th President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Kenneth Harrison Keller is professor emeritus and former president of the University of Minnesota (1985–1988). He was the first Jewish president of the university. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
George Paul "Bud" Peterson is the former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Peterson is a graduate of Kansas State University,where he earned B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics and an M.S. in Engineering,and Texas A&M University,where he earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. On January 7,2019,Peterson announced his upcoming retirement from Georgia Tech,effective summer of 2019. His successor,Ángel Cabrera,assumed the office September 1,2019,after serving for seven years as president of George Mason University in Fairfax,Virginia. In September 2019,the University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted to name Peterson President Emeritus and Regents Professor of Mechanical Engineering for the standard three-year term. The Board of Regents also awarded him tenure.
Hussein M. Zbib was Lebanese-born American engineer. He was a professor in School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University,where he has also served as director of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and director of the Computational Mechanics and Materials Laboratory. His research expertise was in the area of thermo-mechanical behavior and properties of solids. Zbib was recognized for his work on the theory of 3D dislocation dynamics and defects in metals,multi-scale modeling of metal plasticity,and strain gradient plasticity theory.
Charles Clement French was an American academic leader and the sixth President of Washington State University in Pullman,serving from 1952 to 1966.
Marvin Duane Nellis is an American educator,university administrator,and 21st president of Ohio University in Athens. He was previously the president of Texas Tech University and the University of Idaho. Nellis previously served as provost and senior vice president at Kansas State University,and dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Science at West Virginia University.
Thomas Flynn Edgar is an American chemical engineer.
James Walker Allsup is an American white supremacist,far-right political commentator,and podcaster. Allsup has stated that he prefers to be described as an "American nationalist." He was a member of the American Identity Movement,a white nationalist and neo-Nazi organization,until it disbanded in 2020. Allsup formerly co-hosted a podcast on the neo-Nazi network The Right Stuff. He was a YouTube personality until his channel was removed by Google as part of a policy shift to remove content affiliated with white supremacy.
John Andrew Tompkins is an American educator in Kansas. Prior to his previous post at Wichita State University,he served as interim president at Fort Hays State,as well as the president of the Kansas Board of Regents from 2010 to 2015. Tompkins was a professor and dean at Pittsburg State University two different times,and served as a superintendent of three different Kansas school districts. Tompkins is also the former Commissioner of the Kansas State Department of Education,serving from June 1,1996 to June 30,2005.
Peter Kenneth Dorhout is a professor of chemistry and the vice president for research at the Kansas State University. He was the 2018 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As an advocate for science,he has had the opportunity to talk to United States congressional staff about the importance of basic science funding through the National Science Foundation.
Sue Brannon Clark is an environmental radiochemist. Since receiving her doctorate in inorganic and radiochemistry from Florida State University in 1989,Clark has worked at Washington State University where she leads a research team on the chemistry and chemical engineering of processing nuclear materials. She has also held various leadership roles at WSU,including serving as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and interim dean of the college of sciences.
Sarah Ann Rajala is a retired American electrical engineer and engineering educator,the former dean of engineering at both Mississippi State University and Iowa State University,a past president of the American Society for Engineering Education,and a member of the National Academy for Engineering.
R. Duane Ireland is an American management professor,author,and a former interim dean of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. Ireland was acting dean of the school from January 1 to June 13,2021,and interim dean from June 14,2021,to August 14,2022.
The Washington State University System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Washington. It consists of six campuses:Washington State University,Washington State University Everett,Washington State University Spokane,Washington State University Tri-Cities,Washington State University Vancouver,and Washington State University Global Campus.
