Stephen W. Director

Stephen W. Director is Provost and Senior Vice President and Trustee Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University.

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. From July 1996 until July 2005 he was the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. From 1977 until 1996 he was at Carnegie Mellon University 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 US 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 published over 150 papers and authored or co-authored six texts and has a long record of commitment to, and innovation in, engineering education. He has received numerous awards for his research and educational contributions.