SOUTHFIELD – Maj Dean Mirmirani in July assumed the role of interim dean of the LTU College of Engineering. He succeeded Nabil Grace, who left his post as dean to take the newly created position of senior vice president of research and economic development, leading LTU’s new Division of Research and Economic Development.
Mirmirani joins Matt Roush on MiTechTV to provide his back story.
He served from June 2022 to July 2023 as interim dean at Ohio University’s Russ College of Engineering and Technology. From 2007 to 2021, he was dean of the College of Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. From 1987 to 2007, he was a professor of mechanical engineering at California State University-Los Angeles, including serving for 12 years as department chair. Since 2022, Mirmirani has also been senior advisor to the Spark AI Consortium at the University of California at San Diego’s Supercomputer Center.
Mirmirani earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California-Berkeley. Throughout his career, Mirmirani has led major research projects funded by NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, and industry.
He has attracted more than million in funding for his research into electric aircraft propulsion, hypersonic aircraft, rapid prototyping, advanced manufacturing, engineering education, robotics, and more. He is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Aerospace Engineering. An instrument-rated private pilot, Mirmirani is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Your can learn more at www.ltu.edu.
