迪安’s Profile

Dr. Sheryl Ehrman has served as the Don Beall 迪安 of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University since 2017. As dean, she oversees 26 academic programs, delivered by 290 faculty and instructors, that serve 6500+ students, as well as the college of engineering's growing research enterprise. She has cultivated strong relationships between the university and Silicon Valley companies, hired award-winning engineering faculty, and established new speaker series and career-prep incentive programs for the college's students. On her watch, the percentage of female engineering professors has grown to 一个 of the highest in the country.

Before her current role, 迪安 Ehrman served as Keyst一个 professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Maryland. 迪安 Ehrman has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Aerosol 科学 and Technology with a minor in Atmospheric 科学) from UCLA and a B.S. Chemical Engineering from U.C. Santa Barbara.

迪安 Ehrman served as a visiting scientist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Maryland and as a National 科学 Foundation-sponsored post-doctoral fellow at the Paul. Scherrer Institute, in Switzerland. In 2006, she was named a Fulbright Scholar and visiting associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where she engaged with students and faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She served as a Fulbright 校友 Ambassador from 2013-16.