Eleanor Baum, Ph.D. Dean of Engineering
The Cooper Union - School of Engineering

Eleanor Baum

Eleanor Baum, Ph.D.

Dr. Eleanor Baum was elected to the Board of Trustees of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in October 1999. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Student Life Committee and is a member of the Audit and International Affairs committees.

Eleanor Baum is Dean of Engineering at The Cooper Union in New York City. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University and her undergraduate education at City College of New York. She is past-chair of the New York Academy of Sciences, past-president of the American Society for Engineering Education and past-president of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). She chaired the Committee of Examiners for the Graduate Record Examination, and was on the Board of Governors of the Order of the Engineer. She is a Fellow of IEEE, ABET, ASEE, and SWE. She was the National Chairman of the Engineering Deans Council.

Dr. Baum was on the Engineering Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation and was Chair of the Engineering Workforce Commission. She has served on the National Academy's Board on Engineering Education, the Competitiveness Policy Council, and national taskforces dealing with the student pipeline and with the faculty shortage in Engineering. She is a director of Allegheny Power Systems, Inc., the United States Trust Co., AVNET Corp., and was a member of the Electric Power Research Institute Advisory Council, the Cigna Corporation Advisory Board, and Secretary of Energy's Advisory Council. She is a trustee of Webb Institute. She served on the External Advisory Boards of Michigan, Rice and Duke Universities, and the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy.

Dr. Baum has received honorary doctorates from Trinity College, Notre Dame University, Union College, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Colorado School of Mines.

Dr. Baum has received many awards: recently, she was the recipient of the Lamme award for outstanding leadership in engineering education from ASEE in June 2002; she was awarded the CCNY Townsend Harris medal in 1997; the Gruenwald Award from IEEE for outstanding contributions to engineering education in 1997; she was a founding inductee in the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 1996; Engineer of the Year from the Engineering Joint Council of Long Island in 1995; the Engineering Achievement Award from Michigan Technological University in 1995; the Outstanding Women in Science Award in 1992 from AWIS; the Dean's Medallion from Michigan State University in 1992; the Upward Mobility Award from the Society of Women Engineers in 1990, and the Woman of Distinction Award from the National Association of Student Leaders in 1990. She was the national winner of the 1988 Emily Warren Roebling Award presented by the National Women's Hall of Fame. She received the Engineering Achievement Award in 1987 from the Long Island Federation of Technology (LIFT); the Outstanding Alumnus Achievement Awards from both CCNY and from Polytechnic University in 1986.

Dr. Baum is very active in recruitment and retention efforts to increase the number of women and minorities in the engineering profession.

Faculty and Student Delegates

  • Javad Gorjidooz

    Faculty Delegate,
    Prescott Campus

  • Bob Oxley, Ph.D.

    Faculty Delegate,
    Daytona Beach Campus

  • Kees Rietsema, Ph.D.

    Faculty Delegate,
    Worldwide Campus

  • Bryan Dietz

    Student Delegate,
    Daytona Beach Campus

  • Clancy Delforge

    Student Delegate,
    Prescott Campus