Selcuk guceri biography

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Selçuk I. Güçeri, PhD, will join the university as its inaugural Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering. 

For the past 10 years, Dr. Güçeri served as dean of engineering at Drexel University, leading the nation’s largest engineering college among private universities. Under his leadership, Drexel engineering nearly tripled its research funding, significantly increased the number of women faculty and students and the degree of student diversity, and fostered more than a dozen technology-based start-up companies. An accomplished scholar, Dr. Güçeri has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in the fields of manufacturing, materials mechanics, and software development. He will join WPI in early 2011.

Born in Turkey, Dr. Güçeri earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees in mechanical engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara and completed a PhD as a NATO Fellow at the North Carolina Sta Selcuk guceri wpi.