UALR Announces Finalists For Engineering & IT Dean

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock last week named four finalists for the position of dean of the Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology.

The finalists will be interviewed on campus between Feb. 1 and Feb. 12.

The finalists are:

• Roger Clive Woods, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
• Bill B. Elmore, interim director of the Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering and associate professor and Hunter Henry chair at Mississippi State University in Starkville. He holds three degrees from the University of Arkansas.
• Taha F. Marhaba, chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
• Lawrence E. Whitman, associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Engineering at Wichita State University in Kansas.

Michael Schwartz, dean of UALR’s Bowen School of Law, chaired the campus search committee with assistance from a national search firm, Academic Search.

The new dean will fill the position vacated by Eric Sandgren, who stepped down in December to return to a faculty position in engineering. Abhijit Bhattacharyya, EIT associate dean, is serving as interim dean until the position is filled.