Bio - Marie Dillon Dahleh
Marie Dillon Dahleh, PhD; Marie is the assistant dean for academic programs in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a senior lecturer in engineering sciences at Harvard University. She has been in this position since August 2004. As part of her duties she oversees the academic office for the school. The office handles graduate admissions and financial aid, graduate and undergraduate academic program administration. She serves as an advisor for graduate student life committee, the Harvard College engineering society, and Harvard College Engineers without Borders as the assistant director of undergraduate studies for both applied mathematics and engineering sciences. Marie teaches Introduction to Applied Math and coordinates the sophomore forum for engineering. Prior to joining Harvard, she spent 10 years at the University of California Santa Barbara first in the department of Mechanical engineering and later in the college of engineering dean’s office. Her last position was the acting associate dean for undergraduate studies in the college. Prior to UCSB, she was at UCLA in the mathematics department with a partial appointment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She received the Ph.D. (90) and MA (87) in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton University and the BA (85) in Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College. Currently, Marie is the chair of the undergraduate experience committee, which is part of the Engineering Deans council in ASEE. She is the current past chair for the North East section of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She is the coauthor of an undergraduate textbook on mechanical vibration.