Richard Miller

Richard K. Miller is president of Olin College of Engineering, in Needham, Mass. He was its first employee in 1999, and he previously served as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa from 1992 to 1999. The prior 17 years were spent on the engineering faculty at University of Southern California and the University of California-Santa Barbara.

With a background in applied mechanics and current interests in innovation in higher education, Miller is the author of more than 100 reviewed journal articles and other technical publications. Together with two Olin colleagues, he received the 2013 Bernard M. Gordon Prize from the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. A member of both the NAE and the National Academy of Inventors, he received the Marlowe Award for creative and distinguished administrative leadership from the American Society for Engineering Education in 2011.

A frequent speaker on engineering education, Miller received the 2002 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from the University of California-Davis, where he earned his B.S. He earned his M.S. from MIT and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, where he received the 2014 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award.