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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowAn engineering executive with experience in the classroom has been named president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
The school's Board of Trustees appointed James C. Conwell its 15th president Monday. Conwell will begin work May 1 and will succeed Matt Branam, who died in April.
Conwell most recently served as vice president of Jacobs Engineering Group in Southfield, Mich. He also has worked as a senior engineer for Procter & Gamble manufacturing.
He has taught undergraduate engineering at Vanderbilt University, Louisiana State University and Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
Conwell is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University.
Rose-Hulman's campus in Terre Haute is home to about 2,000 students majoring in engineering, science or mathematics.
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