ME Alum Named Dean of College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati

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Following a national search, the University of Cincinnati (UC) has named Dr. Teik C. Lim Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, effective March 10, 2014, pending Board of Trustees approval. Lim, who is an alumnus of The Ohio State University, is currently serving as the interim dean for the College.

In an announcement to UC Administrators, Dr. Beverly Davenport, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at UC, noted that Dean Lim's goals for the College include increasing enrollment of undergraduate students to 4,000 and graduate students to 1,000, and increasing the college's global reputation. While serving as interim dean, he launched the Cincinnati/Chongqing Joint Cooperative Institute, an agreement between the two universities that calls for UC to establish a co-op program in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Chongqing, China. Davenport also stated that UC plans to hire 50 new tenure-track faculty within the College across the next five years. 

Davenport praised Lim's recent accomplishments, "As interim dean, Lim significantly improved the college's finances, awarded more scholarships, increased enrollment to a historic high, enhanced fundraising, and strengthened the Emerging Ethnic Engineers program to increase the number of underrepresented minority students studying engineering and applied sciences. Lim served as the college's associate dean for graduate studies and research and also established a record of success as department head. Under his direction, his department saw steady growth in enrollment and research projects."

Lim is a Fellow of both ASME and SAE, and received the Thomas French Alumni Award from Ohio State University in 2010.  He was named a Fellow of the UC Graduate School in 2014 and was the department head for Mechanical, Industrial and Nuclear Engineering (now Mechanical and Materials Engineering) in January 2005. In 2009, he was named the Herman Schneider Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He earned his degrees in mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University (BS in 1985), University of Missouri-Rolla (MS in 1986), and The Ohio State University (PhD in 1989) where he was advised by Professor Rajendra Singh.
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