Darren M. Dawson

Darren M. Dawson served as the dean of the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering from 2014-19. Prior to this, he had been chair of the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University from 2007-14, where he also held the McQueen Quattlebaum Professorship. From 1990 to 2007, he served as a faculty member at Clemson and as a graduate coordinator from 2005-07.

He received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 and his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984. From 1985-87, he worked for Westinghouse as a control engineer at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory.

Dawson developed solutions for open problems associated with important and/or benchmark nonlinear control applications in motion control, motor control, robotics and mechanical system control. A hallmark of his work was implementation and validation of controllers for a variety of electromechanical systems. His research activities led to eight books, more than 500 publications, more than 12,000 citations, 34 Ph.D. dissertations, 53 master’s theses and $20M of funded activity as PI or co-PI.

Dawson has been highly recognized with the NCR Undergraduate Teaching Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, Centennial Professorship, Murray Stokely Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Collaborative Research Award.