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Serving as chief academic officer for the university and highest-ranking official after the President, Provost Qu will be responsible for the strategic direction and financial management for all academic departments, schools, colleges and research centers. He will ensure a culture of excellence and appropriate allocation of human, space and other resources within the academic enterprise to achieve its ambitious goals. Provost Qu will also lead and participate in Stevens' ongoing strategic planning efforts, building upon the successes of the past decade.
Provost Qu has enjoyed a stellar career as an academic leader, including as a faculty member, researcher and academic administrator. He comes to Stevens from Tufts University, where he served as dean of the School of Engineering and the Karol Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering. While at Tufts, he developed the first Strategic Plan and Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan for the School of Engineering; created the Tufts Entrepreneurship Center; led efforts to establish the Tufts Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction; and increased research expenditures and the acquisition of research awards.
Among other distinguished roles in higher education, Provost Qu previously served as a faculty member and associate chair at Georgia Institute of Technology and as a faculty member and department chair at Northwestern University. He has been principal investigator on more than $16 million in sponsored research to date, working with government collaborators such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Department of Energy and corporate partners including AMD, AT&T, Ford Motor Co., General Electric, IBM, Intel, Motorola and Northrop Grumman.
Provost Qu is a fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and he received the Nondestructive Evaluation Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Optics and Photonics. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of a number of high-impact academic journals and has authored more than 220 refereed journal papers to date in multiple areas of theoretical and applied mechanics with relevance to energy, transportation, infrastructure, electronics and homeland security.
Provost Qu earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Jilin University and master's and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University in theoretical and applied mechanics.
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