Leadership Update 2021

Director, Biomedical Engineering Program Mark Borden, professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, is serving as the inaugural director for the college’s Biomedical Engineering Program. He led 26 faculty from across four departments in launching the program in August 2020. Borden has served as the director of the biomedical engineering minor since 2018 and has been a member of the mechanical engineering faculty since 2010. He is...

Director, Engineering Management Program Christy Bozic has been named the new faculty director of the Engineering Management Program. She joined CU Boulder in 2015 as a scholar in residence and EMP’s associate faculty director of undergraduate education. In her academic career, Bozic has held faculty and administrative positions at Purdue University. Her corporate experiences include global business manager at TDK Corporation of America and sales engineer for Federal Mogul Automotive...

Chair, Chemical & Biological Engineering Will Medlin, Denver Business Challenge Endowed Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been chosen by his fellow faculty to lead the department as it continues to grow its reputation as a world-class center for chemical and biological engineering education and research. Medlin has been a member of the department faculty since 2003 and served as associate department chair from 2012 to...

Associate Dean for Graduate Education Following an internal search, Charles Musgrave has been named associate dean for graduate education for the college. Musgrave is a professor of chemical and biological engineering and professor of chemistry by courtesy. He served as chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering from 2016 to 2020. Musgrave joined CU Boulder in 2008 as an associate professor. He is a fellow of the Renewable...

Chair, Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering After a national search, the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering has welcomed Chris Myers as Palmer Leadership Chair. He comes to CU Boulder from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he was a professor and associate chair. Myers received his BS in electrical engineering and Chinese history in 1991 from the...

Director, Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society Associate Professor Diane Sieber has taken the helm of the Herbst Program in Engineering, Ethics and Society. She joined the faculty of CU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 1993 and migrated to the Herbst faculty in 2004. While serving on the Herbst faculty, she co-directed the ATLAS Institute beginning at its inception in 2000 and started the Technology, Arts and Media...

Assistant Dean for Access, Inclusion and Student Programs Terri Wright has joined the college as assistant dean for access, inclusion and student programs, where she is charged with leading teams responsible for recruiting; career and professional development; scholarships and college affordability; college-wide diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; and the BOLD Center. Wright has more than 16 years of teaching, research and program management experience in higher education. She began her...