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 Russel C. Jones, P.E.
is a private consultant, working through World Expertise L.L.C.
to offer services to a select clientele. Until recently he served as
Executive Director of the National Society of Professional
Engineers, an individual member society for the licensed
professional engineer with offices in Alexandria VA.
Dr. Jones received his education at Carnegie
Institute of Technology, earning degrees in civil engineering and
materials science. Prior to returning to Carnegie for his doctoral
study, he worked as a practicing civil engineer. He has spent much
of his career as an educator, starting with engineering education
and broadening to higher education as a whole. After completing his
doctoral degree in 1963, he taught for eight years on the faculty of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then served in a
succession of administrative posts in higher education, for several
years each: Chairman of Civil Engineering at Ohio State University,
Dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Academic
Vice President at Boston University, and President and University
Research Professor at the University of Delaware.
Long active in the engineering profession, Dr.
Jones has served as a national officer of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, has chaired major task committees for such groups
as the American Society for Engineering Education and the American
Association of Engineering Societies, and has served as President of
the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. He was
General Chairman for UPADI ’90, the biannual meeting of the Pan
American Association of Engineering Societies, and has served as
Co-chairman of the UNESCO Steering Committee on Human Resources
Development for Technical Industry Stimulation. Prior to becoming
its Executive Director, Dr. Jones was active as a volunteer in the
National Society of Professional Engineers, and served as President
of its Delaware Engineering Society. He has been an elected member
of the Council of the Delaware Association of Professional
Engineers, the state PE registration board. He is licensed as a
Professional Engineer in several states, and as a Euro Engineer with
FEANI.
Dr. Jones has been honored with the Collingwood
Prize and the Friedman Professional Recognition Award of the
American Society of Civil Engineers. He has been awarded the
International Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering
Education of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education,
and has been honored as the Outstanding Delaware Engineer of the
Year for 1994. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institution
of Engineers of Ireland, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology, and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufacture and Commerce. He was a Senior Fellow of the American
Council on Education in 1988-90.
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