(Photo courtesy of Layfette College)
By Hannah Grey, Staff Writer -- grey12@up.edu
Wednesday, UP Provost Br. Donald Stabrowski, C.S.C., announced Sharon Jones as the new dean of the Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering.
Jones starts at UP July 1, replacing Zia Yamayee, who has been dean for the past 15 years.
Jones got her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Columbia University in 1986, a Masters in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Master of Public Administration from California State University at Long Beach.
She completed her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996, according to the news release.
Jones is the Director of the Engineering Division at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.
She was also a tenured faculty member at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology from 1995 to 2001.
"She has also been very successful in receiving external grants for her research and presently has two active grants that she will be able to complete after arriving here on campus," Stabrowski said in the news release.
-Hannah Gray
