
As a subcommittee of the Johns Hopkins-Homewood Schools Academic Council, the WSE Graduate Committee has a list of responsibilities.
The WSE Graduate Committee holds three meetings per academic year to confer degrees and discuss policies.
There are eleven members of the WSE Graduate Committee including full-time faculty members and administrators of the Whiting School.
Membership of the WSE Graduate Committee consists of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Whiting School (ex officio) serving as Chair, one (ex officio) member of the Academic Council (elected by the Council) serving as Associate Chair, six members of the WSE faculty (four of whom must be full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty members) and one graduate student. The faculty members serve staggered three-year terms and the student serves a one-year term. The Associate Dean submits the names of those who have agreed to serve to the Dean of Engineering for presentation to the Academic Council for approval.
Chair
Andrew Douglas, WSE Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ongoing)
Associate Chair
Jerry Prince, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering (2006-2007)
Faculty
Harry Charles, Applied Physics Laboratory (2006-2009)
Robert A. Dalrymple, Professor, Civil Engineering (2004-2007)
Shih-Ping Han, Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics (2004-2007)
Gerard Meyer, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering (2004-2007)
Louis Whitcomb, Professor, Mechanical Engineering (2005-2008)
Denis Wirtz, Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (2005-2008)
Graduate Student
Bridget Wildt, Electrical & Computer Engineering (2006-2007)
Administrators
Allan Bjerkaas, EPP Associate Dean (ongoing)
Daniel Horn, WSE Assistant Dean for Academic Programs (ongoing)
Toni Riley, EPP Director of Student Services (ongoing)
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