UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 27, Page 2
April 13, 1995
Russel C. Jones to direct national engineering assn.

     Russel C. Jones, University Research Professor and former UD
president, has been named the new executive director of the National
Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).
     Jones will become executive director designate June 1 and assume
full responsibilities Aug. 1.
     Jones has a long and active history of volunteering with
professional associations, including serving as president of the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and of the Delaware
Engineering Society.
     He is chairperson of the NSPE Younger Engineer Task Force and has
been active in the Ohio and Massachusetts Societies of Professional
Engineers. He also was a national director and vice president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers and is a member of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Society for
Engineering Education.
     "I'm looking forward to changing my avocation into a full-time
vocation," Jones said of the new position at NSPE. "I also look
forward to working with the volunteer leadership to keep NSPE moving
ahead."
     In addition to his tenure at the UD, Jones served as academic
vice president at Boston University; dean of the school of engineering
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; chairperson of the civil
engineering department at Ohio State University, Columbus; and
associate professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
     Jones holds PE licenses in Delaware, Ohio, Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania, and is an elected member of the state PE registration
board in Delaware.
     He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 1994,
he was named Engineer of the Year by the Delaware Engineering Society.
     Other honors include the Collingswood Prize and the Freidman
Professional Recognition Award from the American Society of Civil
Engineers and the International Medal for Distinguished Contributions
to Engineering Education from the Australasian Association for
Engineering Education.
     In higher education Jones has been concerned with developing
technological literacy in non-technical students, with interactions
between universities and pre-college education, with the international
aspects of engineering and engineering education and with reformation
of undergraduate education.