Devesh Ranjan, a mechanical engineer and a leader at one of the country’s largest and highest-ranked engineering programs, will be the 10th dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering.
“We are very fortunate to bring an engineer with Professor Ranjan’s energy and vision back to Madison,” says Provost Charles Isbell Jr. in a news release from UW. “His commitment to people and paving the way for their success is a perfect fit for a time of growth at the College of Engineering.”
Ranjan is currently the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He will begin his new position on June 16.
“I’ve been blessed from that day onward,” Ranjan says. “The thing I say about UW–Madison is if you dream about doing something here, it will happen. It will happen because of the opportunity and the support here for you at UW–Madison.”
Ranjan earned a doctorate at UW–Madison in 2007 in the lab of Prof. Riccardo Bonazza, and was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining the faculty at Texas A&M University in 2009.
In January of 2022, he became School Chair of Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, the campus’s largest school, with nearly 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 95 faculty spread across 19 buildings, according to a news release from UW.
