TCU appoints Dr. Demitris Kouris dean of the College of Science and Engineering

Fort Worth, TX

5/27/2009

TCU recently announced that Dr. Demitris Kouris has been named dean of the College of Science and Engineering at TCU.  Kouris will begin his role as dean in late July. 
 
“Dr. Kouris is an excellent choice,” said Nowell Donovan, TCU provost and vice chancellor. “With his wide range of experience, I am confident TCU’s College of Science and Engineering program will continue to grow and reach new heights of excellence.”
 
Kouris received his diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982, and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern University in 1984 and 1987, respectively. In the fall of 2001, after 14 years with Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University, he joined the faculty of the University of Wyoming where he served as professor and head of Mechanical Engineering until he resigned to join TCU. Since February of 2008, he has been serving as the director of the Nano and Bio Mechanics Program at the National Science Foundation, on a temporary appointment under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Program.

Kouris has served for six years as an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics, Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has also served for five years as the chair of the Technical Committee on Elasticity, Applied Mechanics Division of ASME. In 2008, he was elected Fellow of ASME.