Engineering Chairs and Deans

Name Title Years
William Herbert Kenerson 1st Chair, Division of Engineering 1916-1941
Leighton Teeterick Bohl 2nd Chair, Division of Engineering 1941-1947
John Henry Marchant 3rd Chair, Division of Engineering 1947-1953
Daniel Charles Drucker 4th Chair, Division of Engineering 1953-1959
Paul Southworth Symonds 5th Chair, Division of Engineering 1959-1962
Paul Fritz Maeder 6th Chair, Division of Engineering 1962-1968
Joseph John Loferski 7th Chair, Division of Engineering 1968-1974
Rodney James Clifton 8th Chair, Division of Engineering 1974-1979
L. Ben Freund 9th Chair, Division of Engineering 1979-1983
Richard Andrew Dobbins 10th Chair, Division of Engineering 1983-1988
Alan Needleman 1st Dean, Division of Engineering 1988-1991
Harvey Fox Silverman 2nd Dean, Division of Engineering 1991-1997
Rodney James Clifton 3rd Dean, Division of Engineering 1998-2003
Clyde L. Briant 4th Dean, Division of Engineering 2003-2006
Gregory Philip Crawford 5th Dean, Division of Engineering 2006-2008
Rodney James Clifton Interim and Founding Dean, Division of Engineering/School of Engineering 2008-2011
Lawrence E. Larson 1st Sorensen Family Dean, Brown University School of Engineering 2011-2022
Tejal A. Desai 2nd Sorensen Family Dean, Brown University School of Engineering 2022-