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 Jean-Lou A. Chameau
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0325
(w) 404-385-2700: (f) 404-894-1277
jeanlou.chameau@carnegie.gatech.edu
Dr. Chameau is currently provost and vice president for academic
affairs and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he served as dean of
the College of Engineering. As dean of the largest college of
engineering in the country, Dr. Chameau led educational and research
programs in nine engineering disciplines; all of which have received
national recognition, and collectively confer the largest number of
engineering degrees to undergraduate and graduate students in the
country.
In addition to continuing to enhance the strengths of its core
disciplines, Dr. Chameau is working to make Georgia Tech a worldwide
model for interdisciplinary activities, technology innovation, and
entrepreneurship, and a catalyst for economic development. He is
instrumental in articulating and implementing this vision for
Georgia Tech, including promoting the development of the
multi-faceted cultural, management, scientific and technological
programs that form one of the nation’s most prominent public
universities.
He is placing a strong focus on efforts to improve the educational
experience of students, increase diversity on the campus, and foster
entrepreneurship and international opportunities for faculty and
students. In addition, he is strengthening Georgia Tech’s strong
research activities by promoting the creation of programs and
facilities that embrace multi-disciplinary endeavors such as a major
bio-environmental-materials complex. In this complex, organizational
barriers are broken down by co-locating faculties from several
disciplines in research neighborhoods focused on multidisciplinary
endeavors.
He plays a key role in Georgia Tech’s initiative to educate students
who understand their role in creating a more prosperous and
sustainable society. He led the efforts that resulted in the
creation of the Center for Sustainable Technology, which later
became the Institute for Sustainable Technology and Development. He
promotes research and development activities that recognize the
global and multi-media nature of environmental issues, and the
linkages between technology, society, and the environment.
Dr. Chameau received his secondary and undergraduate education in
France, and graduate education in civil engineering from Stanford
University. In 1980 he joined the civil engineering faculty at
Purdue University, where he subsequently became full professor and
head of the geotechnical engineering program. In 1991, he became the
director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Chameau has been an active consultant throughout his career. In
1994-95, he was the President of Golder Associates Inc., one of the
premier geotechnical/environmental firms in the country. He
currently serves on the boards of directors for MTS Systems
Corporation, Prime Engineering, and is a trustee and treasurer of
the Georgia Tech Research Corporation.
Dr. Chameau’s technical interests include: environmental
geotechnology; soil dynamics; earthquake engineering; liquefaction
of soils; and soil-structure interaction problems. He has also
conducted research and lectured in the areas of reliability of
engineering systems, fuzzy sets, and sustainable technology. He was
the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young
Investigator Award and of the ASCE Casagrande Award.
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