Richard Wlezien Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&TRichard Wlezien, Dean on the College of Engineering and Computing. Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&T
Richard W. Wlezien, former Vance and Arlene Coffman Endowed Department Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and a former researcher and program director at NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), became vice provost and dean of the College of Engineering and Computing on Aug. 1.
He succeeds Richard Brow, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering, who had served in an interim role since July 2016.