The Dean of the College of
Engineering
Dr. George K. Haritos
Dean, College of Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Auburn Science & Engr. Center 201
Akron, OH 44325-3901
Tel: 330.972.6978
Fax: 330.972.5162
Email: haritos@uakron.edu |
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Biographical Sketch
Dr. George K. Haritos is the
Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Akron. He serves
as the senior administrator and chief academic officer of the College
with responsibility for five academic departments – Biomedical,
Chemical and Biomolecular, Civil, Electrical and Computer, and Mechanical
Engineering – offering undergraduate and post-graduate engineering
education. In addition, he oversees several College programs including
those in Cooperative Engineering Education, Women in Engineering, Increasing
Diversity in Engineering Academics (IDEAs), and Engineering Computer
and Network Services. Dr. Haritos serves on the NASA Council of Deans,
the Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI) Board of Trustees and the Manufacturing
Advocacy & Growth Network (MAGNET) Board of Directors.
Dr. Haritos
earned a baccalaureate degree in engineering (applied mechanics) and
a master’s degree (engineering mechanics and
materials) from the University of Illinois in Chicago. He attended
Northwestern University as a Walter P. Murphy fellow, and earned
the doctor of philosophy degree in engineering (structural mechanics)
from NU’s Technological Institute.
Prior to joining The University
of Akron, Dr. Haritos served as the commandant of the Air Force Institute
of Technology. As head
of the Institute, he was responsible for administering the Air Force’s
graduate programs in science and engineering, acquisition, logistics,
civil engineering and environmental management. He oversaw professional
continuing education courses for more than 18,000 students from the
military and civilian sectors of the U.S. Department of Defense,
other federal agencies, and allied countries. Prior to his appointment
as commandant of the Institute, Dr. Haritos served first as associate
dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and later as vice commandant
of AFIT.
Dr. Haritos was retired in July 2001 from active duty in
the U.S. Air Force in the grade of Colonel. He was awarded the Legion
of Merit,
the Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters, the Air
Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, and the National
Defense Medal with service star.
Prior to his work at AFIT, Dr. Haritos
served as deputy director and commander of the Air Force Office of
Scientific Research in Washington,
D.C. That was his second tour of duty at AFOSR. He previously served
there as program manager, and later as director of the Aerospace
Sciences Directorate, and as associate director, AFOSR.
Dr. Haritos’ Air
Force assignments also included: chief, Flight Vehicles Division
at Headquarters Air Force Systems Command, Washington,
D.C., professor of Engineering Mechanics, Air Force Institute of
Technology, Dayton, Ohio, associate professor of Engineering Mechanics,
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and aeronautical
structures engineer, Aeronautical Systems Division, Dayton, Ohio.
The
author of more than 40 technical articles, Dr. Haritos is a member
of the American Academy of Mechanics and the American Society
of Engineering Education, an associate fellow in the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a fellow in the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers. He has won nine major, competitively–funded
research awards.
