Page History

Christopher Ober, the Francis Bard Professor of Materials Engineering, was appointed as interim dean of engineering Lance R. Collins is the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University in 2009.   He joined the Cornell faculty in 1986 after several years at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada. His research is focused on lithography, patterning, the biology-materials interface, and control of surface structure in thin films. Ober received the 2003 International Sematech Outstanding Contribution Award, the 2004 Photopolymer Science and Technology Award, the 2006 American Chemical Society Award in Applied Polymer Science, a 2007 Humboldt Research Prize, and the 2009 Johannes Gutenberg Research Award, given by the University of Mainz. He was also named to the inaugural class of American Chemical Society fellows in 2009served as the S. C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 2005 to 2010. Over the past year, Collins served on Cornell's Strategic Plan Advisory Council that wrote the university's strategic plan. He joined Cornell in 2002, following 11 years on the Chemical Engineering faculty at Pennsylvania State University. Collins's research combines simulation and theory to investigate a broad range of turbulent flow processes, including the motion of aerosol particles in turbulence, mixing and chemical reactions in turbulent flames, turbulent breakup of drops and drag reduction due to polymer additives. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and chairs the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics under auspices of the National Academies.

College of Engineering
242 Carpenter Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-2201
607 255-9679
engineering_dean@cornell.edu