The dean of the Gallogly College of Engineering has announced he will step down after 21 years of service at OU.
Dean Tom Landers will step down effective Aug. 15, so he can spend more time with his family. Landers has been dean since 2005, after being the director of the School of Industrial Engineering in 1998 and then the associate dean for research and graduate programs in 2001.
Landers listed in his announcement some of the accomplishments that have occured during his time as dean, including the college’s diversity and inclusion program, the increase of undergraduate enrollment by two-fold and the establishment of the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering and opening of Devon Energy Hall and the ExxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl Engineering Practice Facility.
“The University of Oklahoma and the Gallogly College of Engineering will forever hold a special place in my heart,” Landers said in his announcement. “My wife of 47 years, Patti ... and I raised our youngest of three sons in Norman and, following in his father’s footsteps, he, too, became an industrial engineer.”
Landers said he will continue to teach Enterprise Engineering for the Industrial and Systems Engineering school.
