Donna Riley

Dean of Engineering and Computing, University of New Mexico

Donna Riley is Jim and Ellen King dean of engineering and computing and professor in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She previously served as Kamyar Haghighi head and professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue, professor and interim head of engineering education at Virginia Tech, program director for engineering education at the National Science Foundation, and founding faculty in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Riley earned a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in engineering and public policy.