Richard Keith Miller was the founding president of Olin College since 1999. He stepped down from his role as president on June 30, 2020. His successor will be

Gilda Barabino Gilda A. Barabino is the president of the Olin College of Engineering, where she is also a Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. Previously, she served as the Dean of The Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York, and ...

, dean of Grove School of Engineering. Previously dean of the College of Engineering and professor at the University of Iowa. Miller received a B.S. in

aerospace engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

in 1971 from the University of California, Davis and an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. In 1976 he received a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from the California Institute of Technology. In 2012, Miller was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for establishing a new paradigm for undergraduate engineering education and establishment of Olin College.

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* In 2006, Miller was named one of 12 "All Stars" of the high tech community by Mass High Tech. * In 2012, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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National Academy of Engineering member page
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