W. Kent Fuchs
Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
Kent Fuchs has been dean of the College of Engineering, Cornell University, since 2002. He was formerly head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, and Michael J. and Catherine R. Birck Distinguished Professor. Before serving at Purdue, he was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. Fuchs received his BSE degree from Duke University, his MDiv degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.
His research interests include dependable computing, testing, and failure diagnosis of integrated circuits. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM.
