UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 24, Page 10
March 18, 1994
Research professor named state Engineer of the Year

     Russel C. Jones, University Research Professor, has been named
Delaware's Engineer of the Year. The recognition was announced at the 37th
annual National Engineers Week banquet Feb. 22, held at the DuPont Country
Club ballroom, by Clarence "Chip" Hazel, president of the Delaware
Engineering Society. Delaware Gov. Thomas R. Carper presented the award.
     Jones has spent his career as an educator. For eight years he was on
the faculty of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He then served in a succession of administrative posts, including
chairperson of the civil engineering department at Ohio State University,
dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts,
academic vice president at Boston University and president of the
University of Delaware.
     Long active in the engineering profession, Jones has served as a
national officer of the American Society of Civil Engineers and has chaired
major task forces involving committees for such groups as the American
Society for Engineering Education and the American Association of
Engineering Societies.
     In higher education, Jones has been active in developing technological
literacy in non-technical students through communication and interaction
between universities and pre-college education.
     He also has been involved in the international aspects of engineering
and engineering education.