Speakers
Dan Mote
President, University of Maryland
C. D. (Dan) Mote, Jr. is currently president of the University of Maryland and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering. Prior to assuming the presidency at Maryland, Dr. Mote served as vice chancellor at Berkeley, held an endowed chair in Mechanical Systems and was president of the UC Berkeley Foundation. He has served as vice chair of the Department of Defense Basic Research Committee, and is a member of the Council of the National Academy of Engineering. His science policy work includes serving on the committee that authored the National Academies’ “Rising above the Gathering Storm” report and participating in the Leadership Council of the National Innovation Initiative, an activity of the Council on Competitiveness.
Dr. Mote is internationally recognized for his research on the dynamics of gyroscopic systems and the biomechanics of snow skiing. He has produced more than 300 publications and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In fall 2005 he received the 2005 Founders Award from the National Academy of Engineering in recognition of his comprehensive body of work on the dynamics of moving flexible structures and his leadership in academia.