Alexis R. Abramson

Alexis R. Abramson is an American mechanical engineer and the current dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.[1][2]

Alexis R. Abramson
13th Dean of Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
Assumed office
June 17, 2019
Preceded byJoseph J. Helble
Personal details
BornCleveland, Ohio
Alma materTufts University (BS)
Tufts University (MS)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
WebsiteAlexis Abramson

Education and Career

Abramson earned her BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Tufts University and her PhD in from the University of California, Berkeley.[3][4]

She joined Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2019 as its dean, the second woman to ever hold this position in the engineering school's more than 150-year history.[1] Previously, Abramson was the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University, where she served as a mechanical and aerospace engineering faculty since 2003.[5] During her time at Case Western Reserve, Abramson served in a variety of leadership roles, including as director of the Case Western Reserve's Great Lakes Energy Institute and as interim chair of the university's electrical engineering and computer science department.

In addition, Abramson has served in a number of roles outside of the university. During President Obama's administration, Abramson was chief scientist and manager of the Emerging Technologies Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program, which invests in research, development, and commercialization of energy-efficient and cost-effective building technologies that are within five years of being market-ready. In 2018, she served as a technical adviser for Breakthrough Energy Ventures. From 2006 to 2009, she served as Executive Director of the Nano-Network and Vice President for Technology Innovation at NorTech, where she leveraged technology development and commercialization opportunities at companies and academic institutions in the region.[6]

Abramson is also one of the co-founders of Edifice Analytics, a Cleveland Heights-based company that has developed technology to conduct building energy audits virtually using smart-meter data.[7][8]

Honors and Awards
  • Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) Fellowship (2014)[9]
  • The Mather Spotlight Prize from Case Western Reserve University (2012)[10]
  • The National Science Foundation CAREER Award, (2005–2010)[11]

References
  1. "Alexis Abramson Named Dean of Thayer School of Engineering | Dartmouth News". news.dartmouth.edu.
  2. "Co-director of Great Lakes Energy Institute leaves for Dartmouth dean position". cleveland. April 1, 2019.
  3. "Alexis R. Abramson | Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth". engineering.dartmouth.edu.
  4. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-abramson-63843/
  5. https://engineering.case.edu/news/case-school-engineering-honor-12-endowed-professorships
  6. Reporter, Douglas J. Guth Senior Staff. "Cleveland professor embraces 'science of small' technology". Cleveland Jewish News.
  7. News, Mirage (June 19, 2020). "Case Western Reserve completes license option with "spinout" company Edifice Analytics Inc | Mirage News". www.miragenews.com.
  8. "CWRU completes license option with spinout company Edifice Analytics". Crain's Cleveland Business. June 19, 2020.
  9. https://searslab.case.edu/news/cses-abramson-graduates-stem-leadership-program
  10. "Mather Prize Winners 2005 - 2013 | Flora Stone Mather Center for Women | Case Western Reserve University". case.edu. June 4, 2019.
  11. "Alexis R. Abramson | The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society". irving.dartmouth.edu.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.