The OSU/A&M Board of Regents approved the appointment of Dr. Hanchen Huang as dean, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and the holder of the Donald and Cathey Humphreys Endowed Chair of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology.Huang recently served as a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, where he also served as the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs from July 2022 to June 2023. He served as the dean of the College of Engineering at the University of North Texas between January 2019 and July 2022, and the department chair of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University in Boston between July 2013 and December 2018.Huang earned a doctoral degree in nuclear engineering from University of California-Los Angeles, a master’s degree in theoretical nuclear physics from the Institute of Atomic Energy/Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Hebei Normal University, also in China.Dr. John Veenstra had served as interim dean of CEAT since August 2023 when Dr. Paul Tikalsky stepped down after more than a decade at the helm to return to a faculty position.
