N.C. State researcher appointed College of Engineering dean

By: Dennis Brown

Date: August 10, 2007

Peter Kilpatrick, currently chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University, has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame by Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the University’s president.

Kilpatrick succeeds Frank Incropera, who had served as dean since 1998 and remains at Notre Dame as the Brosey Professor of Mechanical Engineering. James Merz, interim dean of the college for the past year, will continue in that capacity until Kilpatrick begins in January.

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