SUBJECT:  Search for the Dean of the Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of
                     Engineering

Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Dean of the Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering. The Search Committee (membership listed below) will conduct a nationwide search and is seeking to recruit a Dean of intellectual and scholarly distinction who will be attracted by the prospect of shaping the future vision of the Jacobs School's nationally ranked engineering programs.

The Dean will be appointed to serve at 100% time for a five-year term, renewable following appropriate review. Candidates must possess the academic qualifications sufficient to merit a tenured senior level academic appointment.

The Search Committee will begin reviewing nominations and applications on May 1, 2002, and continue until the position is filled. Applications (resume and names of references) and nomination materials should be submitted, in confidence, to: Professor Larry Milstein, Chair of the Search Committee for the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, 9500 Gilman Drive, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0407; or by e-mail to: jsoesrch@soe.ucsd.edu

The University of California, San Diego is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

                                                Marsha A. Chandler
                                                Senior Vice Chancellor

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SEARCH COMMITTEE FOR THE DEAN OF THE JACOBS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Professor Laurence Milstein (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Chair
Professor Francine D. Berman (Computer Science & Engineering; Director, SDSC)
Professor Shu Chien (Bioengineering and Medicine)
Professor Pamela Cosman (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Vice Chancellor/Dean Edward Holmes (Health Sciences/School of Medicine)
Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea (Structural Engineering)
Professor Juan C. Lasheras (Chair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Professor Kenneth Melville (MPL/PORD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Professor Sunil Sinha (Physics)
Professor Larry L. Smarr (Computer Science & Engineering)
Professor Suresh Subramani (Molecular Biology)
Edgar Gutierrez, graduate student representative
Sara Whitehead, undergraduate student representative
Staff representative (to be named)