Endowed Chairs and Professorships

 

Endowed chairs and professorships provide support for the important research that our talented faculty members conduct and enhance their efforts in specialized areas of study. The annual income can propel research, provide funding for professional development, help pay student workers or create opportunities for collaboration with scholars around the world.

Endowed professorships and chairs are our most prestigious faculty appointments and our highest academic award. It is an honor to the named holder of the appointment and also an enduring acknowledgement to the donor who established it.

The College of Engineering is proud to have the following distinguished professors among its faculty:

College of Engineering

  • John Kaichiro Nakayama and Tome Miyagushi Nakayama Professorship for Research Excellence  and Teaching Excellence: Cathryn "Catie" Brewer, Satyajayant "Jay" Misra, Young Ho Park
         Former recipients: Ou Ma, Phillip DeLeon  (first recipients)
  • PECSO Endowed Professorship in Industrial Water Quality and Reclamation Research: Pei Xu

 

 

Chemical Engineering

  • Luke Barry Shires Endowed Professorship in Chemical and Materials Engineering: Hongmei Luo
  • Robert Davis Distinguished Professorship in Chemical Engineering: David Rockstraw
    Former Recipients:  Shuguang Deng, Martha Mitchell  (first recipients)

 

 

Civil Engineering

  • Ed and Harold Foreman Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering: Lakshmi N. Reddi
    Former Recipient: Nagamany Nirmalakhandan    (first recipient)
  • John Minor P.E. Memorial Endowed Professorship: Craig Newtson
  • John Clark Distinguished Professorship: Yanyan Zhang
    Former Recipient:  Lambis Papelis ,  Nirmala Khandan (first recipient)
  • Ed Foreman Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Civil Engineering: David Jáuregui
    Former Recipients: Peter Martin, Rola Idriss (first recipient)
  • Harold Foreman Distinguished Professorship in Civil Engineering: Douglas Cortes
    Former Recipient:  Brad Weldon, Zohrab Samani   (first reci pient)
  • Wells-Hatch Family Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Civil Engineering: Paola Bandini
    Former Recipient :  David Jáuregui  (first recipient)
  • Pesco Professor in Industrial Water Quality and Reclamation Research: Pei Xu
     

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Frank Carden Endowed Chair in Telemetering and Telecommunications: Charles "Chuck" Creusere
    Former Recipients:   Frank Carden, William P. Osborne, Stephen Horan
  • PNM Endowed Chair for Utility Management:   Satish Ranade   (first recipient)
  • International Foundation for Telemetering Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Deva Borah
    Former Recipient:   Deva Borah
  • William Kersting Endowed Professorship in Power Systems Engineering: Olga Lavrova
    Former Recipient:  Sukumar Brahma   (first recipient)
  • Paul W. and Valerie Klipsch Distinguished Professorships in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Steven J. Stochaj, Wei Tang and David G Voelz
    Former Recipients :  Kwong Ng, Jaime Ramirez-Angulo, David Voelz ,  Vojin Oklobdzija, Mike Giles

 

 

Mechanical Engineering

  • Dwight and Audrey Chapman Distinguished Professorship in Mechanical Engineering: Fangjun Shu
    Former Recipients:   Eric Butcher (first recipient), Igor Sevostinov
  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Academy Distinguished Professorship: TBA
    Former recipients:   Mingjuin Wei,  Igor Sevostianov  (first recipient)
  • Forrest Mooney Endowed Professorship in Aerospace Engineering: Andreas Gross
  • Robert G. Myers Department Head Professorship in Mechanical Engineering: Jay I. Frankel
    Former Recipients:   Thomas Burton (first recipient), Ian Leslie, Ruey-Hung Chen

Pending Completion of Endowment Funding

  • Ken White Endowed Professorship in Structures and Transportation Engineering
  • George W. Lucky Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Engineering Education