Dean, Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Colorado State University | Fort Collins, Colorado We are pleased to announce that Colorado State University has named Allen Robinson, PhD as its next Dean of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, beginning in October.Dr. Robinson will be joining CSU from Carnegie Mellon University where he is the director of Carnegie Mellon University-Africa in Rwanda, Associate Dean for International Programs in Africa for the College of Engineering, Director of the EPA-funded Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions, and Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy. Dr. Robinson will begin his appointment as Dean in October. Until that time, Dr. Ken Reardon, Associate Dean for Research and CSU Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, will serve as Interim Dean.Robinson previously held a joint appointment as Professor in the Departments of Atmospheric Science and Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. He left CSU to accept a position as head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon, where he had previously worked since 1998. After his return to CMU, Dr. Robinson continued to engage and collaborate with many CSU faculty and students in air quality, climate, and public health research.Robinson received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 and his BS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1990. Robinson received the George Tallman Ladd Outstanding Young Faculty Award from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000, the Ahrens Career Development Chair in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professorship in 2013, and the American Geophysical Union ASCENT award in 2015. He is also the former president and an elected fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR).Read the full press release here.This search was led by Greg Esposito, with Sharon Hansen, and Victoria Castillo.