Emir Jose Macari has been named dean of the College of Engineering
and Computer Science at Sacramento State. The appointment is effective Aug.
1.
“I am extremely pleased that Dr. Macari accepted the position of Dean,”
said Ric Brown, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. “He is
a teacher, scholar and community leader. He will lead a great college to an
even higher level.”
Macari is currently dean of the College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
at the University of Texas at Brownsville. Prior to that, he served as the program
director for the Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology at
the National Science Foundation. He spent five years as the chair and Bingham
C. Stewart Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Louisiana State University. At the Georgia Institute of Technology
he taught both engineering and public policy and at the University of Puerto
Rico he was a professor and director of Civil Infrastructure Research Center.
He has also worked as a civil engineer in private industry and has been a fellow
at NASA.
Macari holds both a doctorate and a master’s degree in civil engineering
geomechanics from the University of Colorado. He has a bachelor’s degree
in civil engineering geomechanics from Virginia Tech University.
A high-resolution image of Macari is available for download at www.csus.edu/news/imagedownload.
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office at (916) 278-6156.
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