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For Release: ImmediateNewark, N.J., July 16, 1998 – New Jersey Institute of Technology has named a distinguished professional engineer, educator, researcher and academic administrator to serve as dean of Newark College of Engineering (NCE), effective Sept. 1, 1998. Houston Scholar Named Dean
of NJIT's Newark College of EngineeringDr. Sheng-Taur Mau, of Houston, is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston and founding director of the Public Works Institute at the university’s Cullen College of Engineering. From 1993-1996, he chaired the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Since 1995, he has directed an interdisciplinary research project on civil infrastructure systems, funded by the National Science Foundation, City of Houston and a consortium of private corporations.
NCE, the largest and oldest school at NJIT, has offered baccalaureate engineering degrees since 1919. The college offers nationally recognized programs in chemical and environmental engineering, manufacturing and telecommunications. Approximately 25 percent of all engineers employed in New Jersey are NCE alumni.
Dr. Mau earned his Ph.D. in structural engineering at Cornell University and served two years as senior research engineer in the Aeroelastic and Structures Research Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published extensively in professional journals and conference proceedings in the areas of structural analysis and dynamics, and earthquake engineering. In addition, Dr. Mau co-authored a book, titled "Elementary Theory of Structures," which is in its fourth printing by Prentice Hall. He also is the recipient of an American Society of Civil Engineers national award for a research paper on structural engineering and a Senior Faculty Research Award from the Cullen College of Engineering.
Dr. Mau, a licensed professional engineer, is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and has served on a six-member panel for the National Research Council on earthquake engineering for concrete dams.
NJIT is a public research university enrolling nearly 8,200 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in 76 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include multimedia, manufacturing, microelectronics, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science. U.S. News and World Report's "1998 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges" ranked NJIT among the nation's top universities. Money magazine's "Best College Buys 1998" rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology colleges and universities. Yahoo! Internet Life magazine ranks NJIT No. 2 on the list of "America’s Most Wired Colleges."
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