“What attracted me to Manhattan College was . . . the professional service-centric values the College wishes to instill in the engineering students.”
School of Engineering Welcomes New Dean Manhattan College’s school of engineering has a new leader. Dr. Tim Ward was named dean of the school this past summer and began his tenure in Riverdale on Aug. 18. Ward previously served as professor of civil engineering and chair of the department of civil engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He earned his bachelor’s degree in geological engineering at the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno; his master’s degree in geological engineering at the University of Nevada; and a doctorate in civil engineering at Colorado State University. “Manhattan College has a long history of being an outstanding place for undergraduate engineering education,” Ward says. “A number of National Academy of Engineering members have come through the programs at Manhattan, so there are a lot of very positive things associated with not only the school of engineering but also Manhattan College in general.” Ward did not teach any classes during the fall semester, as he acclimated himself to his new role, but will instruct on some level in subsequent semesters. He is a fully tenured professor of civil engineering in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the College, and in the past has taught a variety of courses, from introduction to engineering through graduate level specialty classes. “What attracted me to Manhattan College was the strong commitment to undergraduate education, a high quality graduate program at
the master’s level, the collegiality of the faculty, staff and students, and the professional servicecentric values the College wishes to instill in the engineering students,” he says. At UNM, Ward also had been associate director of WERC: A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development (previously known as the Waste-Management, Education and Research Consortium), and assistant vice president for research. He began his academic career in the civil engineering department at Colorado State and has held positions at the Research Institute of Colorado, the University of New Castle (England), New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the University of Nebraska. Ward is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a licensed professional engineer. His professional memberships include ASCE Environmental & Water Resources Institute; Watershed Management Technical Committee; Soil and Water Conservation Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the National Society of Professional Engineers. During his career, he conducted several funded research projects totaling nearly $10 million while at UNM and NMSU and has written more than 200 publications, papers and reports. His research interests include hydraulics, waste management, watershed management, rainfall simulation studies, and erosion and sediment transport.
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