Following the announcement in August that College of Engineering Dean Don Giddens would retire at the end of this academic year, Provost Rafael Bras has named a search committee to begin the process of identifying the College’s next leader.

With more than 60 percent of the students and about half of the tenured and tenure-track faculty at the Georgia Tech, the College of Engineering is the largest program of its kind in the country. The committee is expected to meet for the first time later this month, where they will discuss the search process and receive a formal charge from the provost.

“The committee will be charged with articulating the qualities of leadership needed to implement the Institute’s new strategic plan; with screening and interviewing candidates; and with recommending finalists for the position,” Bras said. An executive search firm will be retained to help facilitate candidate identification and vetting.

Members of the search committee include:

• Mostafa El-Sayed (Chair)
  Regents Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
• Dean Alford
  Chair, College of Engineering Advisory Board 
• Mostafa Ammar
  Regents Professor, Computer Science 
• Karolyn Babalola
  Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering 
• Gisele Bennett
  Director, Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory—GTRI and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Corey Boone
  Undergraduate SGA president 
• Barrett Carson
  Vice President, Development 
• William Cheesborough
  Director of Financial Services and Administration, Mechanical Engineering 
•  Sam Graham
  Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering 
• Deborah Harris
  Alumna and Georgia Tech Foundation member 
• David Ku
  Regents' Professor, Mechanical Engineering 
• Michelle LaPlaca
  Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering 
• Steve McLaughlin
  Vice Provost for International Initiatives 
• Shuming Nie
  Professor, Biomedical Engineering 
•  Elsa Reichmanis
  Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
• Stephen Ruffin
  Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering 
• Ken Sandhage
  Professor, Materials Science and Engineering 
• Carlos Santamarina
  Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering 
• Jeff Shamma
  Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering 
• Sandra Slaughter
  Professor, College of Management 
• Julie Swann
  Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering 
• Jeff Wu
  Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering  
• Jennifer Herazy (ex-officio)
  Assistant Provost 
•  Marita Sullivan (ex-officio)
  Interim Associate Vice President, Human Resources