New Thayer Dean

David V. Ragone, former Associate Dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, became Dean of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering on July 1. He fills the post that had been vacant since Dean Myron Tribus resigned last year to become Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology in the Nixon administration.

Dean Ragone is a 1951 graduate of M.I.T. where he also took his doctorate. He majored in metallurgical engineering and minored in chemical engineering, the latter leading to his current interest and work on automotive fuels, air pollution, and electric cars. Since 1967 he has been a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the U. S. Department of Commerce, and currently he is chairman of the Panel on Automotive Fuels and Air Pollution. Dean Ragone taught engineering at the University of Michigan from 1953 to 1962, and for the next five years was with the Atomic Division of General Dynamics in La Jolla, Calif. He went to Carnegie-Mellon University as Alcoa Professor of Mettalurgy in 1967 and last September he was named associate dean of their new School of Urban and Public Affairs.