Pearl Sullivan (PhD ’90, MTRL), professor, researcher and UBC alumna, has been appointed as the University of Waterloo’s Dean of Engineering effective July 1, 2012. Sullivan earned her PhD in materials engineering at UBC under the supervision of Anoush Poursartip.
After completing her PhD at UBC, Sullivan became a faculty member in mechanical engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and then at the University of New Brunswick. She joined the University of Waterloo as a professor in 2004, and since 2006 has been chair of the Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.
Sullivan’s term as dean will run five years, ending June 30, 2017.
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