Spring 2001

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Two new department heads have been selected at Rose-Hulman. Fred Berry is the new head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Robert Houghtalen will take over as head of civil engineering effective July 1.

Berry has been a member of the Rose-Hulman electrical and computer engineering faculty since 1995. He teaches undergraduate classes in controls, circuits and parallel processing. He has also served as a consultant to NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Prior to joining the Rose-Hulman faculty, Berry served for 13 years on the electrical engineering faculty at Louisiana Tech University. He received the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Excellence Award during his tenure at Louisiana Tech. Berry earned the bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Louisiana Tech.

Berry is chairing a department that has 17 faculty and 395 students seeking a B.S. degree in electrical or computer engineering. He replaces Barry Farbrother who has become dean of the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University.

Houghtalen, a member of the faculty 1988, will replace longtime chair Jim McKinney, who will remain on the faculty as the first Roland Hutchins Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering,

Recipient of the Board of Trustees' Outstanding Scholar Award in 1998, Houghtalen has expertise in hydrologic and hydraulic engineering, storm water and wastewater management, and wetlands preservation. He recently was selected to participate in the Fulbright Scholars Program's Urban Studies Seminar in Germany this summer.

Houghtalen provides continuing education seminars on hydrologic and hydraulic modeling throughout America. The seminars are sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers.