Dean, College of Engineering & Computer Science The University of Tulsa | Tulsa, Oklahoma We are pleased to announce the completion of our search for the Dean of the College of Engineering & Computer Science at The University of Tulsa. From a strong pool of candidates, TU has selected Andreas Polycarpou to fill this important position.Polycarpou brings a wealth of expertise as a mechanical engineer and leader in higher education. Most recently he served on special assignments as the acting department head of periodontics, acting department head of endodontics, acting dean, and special advisor to the permanent dean at the Texas A&M School of Dentistry in Dallas. Prior to this, he was the department head of the J. Mike Walker ’66 Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University for almost nine years. Before joining Texas A&M in 2012, Polycarpou was the W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor and the associate department head for undergraduate programs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. While on a leave of absence from Illinois, he served as the founding department chair of mechanical engineering at Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates.Polycarpou is the author of more than 250 archival journal papers, numerous book chapters, and volume proceedings, as well as two dozen patents. He also co-founded a materials’ startup company in 2010. Polycarpou has won numerous national and international honors, including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Mayo D. Hersey Award and the ASME Edwin F. Church Medal for pedagogical innovations and was recently inducted as a senior member of the American Academy of Inventors.Polycarpou holds a PhD, an MS, and a BS in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and worked for a high-tech magnetic storage company before starting his academic career.Julie Filizetti led this search with Phuong Ta.