Keith J. Bowman
Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

Chair, Mid-Career Issues Panel
BIO
Bowman has been a professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) since August 2011. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Bowman served as a visiting professor and received Alexander von Humboldt stipends for research at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany in 1996 and again in 2002. He served as a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and also served a one-year appointment as interim head of the Purdue School of Materials Engineering before being named the head in 2007. He is a Fellow and board of directors member of the American Ceramic Society. At Purdue, he received the MSE Best Teaching Award in 1992 and 1995, as well as the University’s highest teaching award, the Charles Murphy Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the Purdue College of Engineering Mentoring Award. In 2012, he was named the first Duchossois Leadership Professor in the IIT Armour College of Engineering.

Bowman has conducted engineering education research for K-12 and beginning engineering, assessment approaches, and documenting trends for gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in engineering colleges. He has more than 170 publications and is the author of a textbook An Introduction to Mechanical Behavior of Materials (Wiley, 2004).