David
Holger, current Associate Dean of Engineering at Iowa State
University, received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in
aerospace engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1970,
1971, and 1974, respectively. He was a Churchill Scholar
at Cambridge University during the 1971–1972 academic year and
received a Certificate for Post-Graduate Research in Engineering
from Cambridge in 1972. He joined the Department of
Engineering Science and Mechanics at ISU in 1974 and was
promoted to professor in 1984. In 1990, Holger was appointed
chairman of the new Department of Aerospace Engineering and
Engineering Mechanics that was formed by the merger of the
Department of Aerospace Engineering with the Department of
Engineering Science and Mechanics. He was appointed associate
dean for academic programs and budget of the College of
Engineering in 1995.
Holger’s areas of professional expertise are acoustics and noise
control, and he spent several summers working as a research and
development engineer for the Trane Company, the George Rolfes
Company, and the United States Air Force Civil Engineering
Center. He was awarded an NTNF (Norwegian) Senior Research
Fellowship in 1986 and spent the 1986–1987 academic year as a
visiting faculty researcher at the Norwegian Institute of
Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He and his students have
published numerous papers on various aspects of noise control
and he is the co-holder of three U.S. patents. His contributions
as a faculty member at Iowa State were recognized by a Faculty
Citation from the Alumni Association in 1993. He has served as
editor-in-chief of Noise Control Engineering Journal, the
international archival journal of the Institute of Noise Control
Engineering, since 1996. In 1997, he was appointed to the
Engineering Accreditation Commission as a representative from
AIAA. Additionally, he has served as chair of the Engineering
Accreditation Commission of ABET’s Criteria Committee from 1999
through 2002, as a member of the EAC Executive Committee since
2001, and is currently serving as chair-elect of the EAC. He is
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.
He has been active in professional and institutional service
throughout his career. In 1996 he completed a two-year term as
chairman of the Aerospace Department Chair’s Association, has
served as a member of the Aeroacoustics Technical Committee of
the AIAA, is an EAC ABET accreditation visitor for programs in
aerospace engineering. He is currently a member of the Academic
Affairs Committee and the Education Series Publications Advisory
Board of AIAA, as well as the Technical Committee on Noise of
the Acoustical Society of America. He was the technical chair
for Noise Con 2003, the annual noise control engineering
conference of INCE USA. He was president of the Iowa State
University Faculty Senate (1989–1990), chair of the ISU
Presidential Search Committee (1990–1991), chair of the Faculty
Senate Committee on University Planning (1992–1994), chair of
the ISU Strategic Planning Review Committee (1993–1994), and
chair of the Engineering Curricular Initiatives Task Force
(1991–1993). He also served as chair of the AIAA Academic
Affairs Committee (1998–2003) and the board of directors of the
Institute of Noise Control Engineering (1998–2001).
Updated:
10/09/2003
