Stephen W. Director

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Stephen W. Director is Senior Advisor to the President, having previously served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University from 2008 to 2015. He received his B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Northeastern he has held a number of academic positions including Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Drexel University (2005 – 2008), Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan (1996-2005). From 1977 until 1996 he was at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he was the U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and served as Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and then Dean of the College of Engineering. In 1982, he founded the SRC-CMU Research Center for Computer-Aided Design and served as its Director from 1982 to 1989. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was named an Honorary Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2002.

Director is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He is a pioneer in the field of electronic design automation and has long record of commitment to, and innovation in, engineering education. He has received numerous awards for his research and educational contributions including the ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Millennium Medal, the IEEE Education Medal and the Aristotle Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).

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