Don P. Giddens, Ph.D.
Dean
College of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Don P. Giddens, Ph.D.,
Dean, College of Engineering
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Don P. Giddens is dean of the College of Engineering, the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering, and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dean Giddens received all three of his degrees (B.S.E. 1963, M.S 1965, and Ph.D. 1966) from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Giddens joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1968. In 1992 he left his position as the Chair of aerospace engineering to serve as the Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at The Johns Hopkins University until 1997. In 1997, Giddens rejoined Georgia Tech to serve as chair of The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint department between Georgia Tech's College of Engineering and Emory University's School of Medicine. In July 2002, Giddens became the dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Giddens is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Big 10+ Deans Council, and a founding fellow and past president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He received the H.R. Lissner Award from ASME in 1993 and was the ASME Thurston Lecturer in 1996. Giddens currently serves on a number of advisory boards and councils for academic institutions, corporations, and professional societies. Giddens is also the author of more than 100 refereed publications and book chapters, 190 paper presentations and proceedings, and maintains an active research program in cardiovascular hemodynamics.
