Bruce Eisenstein Appointed Associate Dean

Dean Selçuk Güçeri announced the appointment of Dr. Bruce Eisenstein as Associate Dean in the College of Engineering and Executive Director of the Drexel Engineering Curriculum (tDEC). Eisenstein will lead Drexel’s undergraduate engineering curriculum, and continue the tradition of Drexel as being the premier institution for engineering education.

Dr. Bruce Eisenstein Named Associate Dean of Engineering and Executive Director of tDEC

“My most important role as a faculty member at Drexel is to educate our students. Education begins the minute the students step on campus and enroll in tDEC,” says Eisenstein. With the pervasive changes in the practice of engineering over the last decade, engineering programs face several challenges to attract the very best students and to retain them in engineering. Eisenstein’s main focus will be the three R’s, “Retention, Relevance, and Relationship,” Eisenstein adds, “These three together will enable tDEC to be a more advanced curriculum for our current students, and enable faculty and staff to help develop the students to their full potential as talented professionals.”

Eisenstein received his BS from MIT, MS from Drexel ’65 (EE) and Ph.D from UPenn. His research areas are signal processing, particularly extraction of information from signals for the purpose of estimation and detection, and pattern recognition and decision making. In recent years, Eisenstein has been working on wireless communications specifically cell phones and applications of the global positioning satellite system (GPS). Additionally, Eisenstein is very active in mentoring students in entrepreneurial activities through the Baiada Center. Previously, he was the Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Dean of Engineering, and head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel.

In 2000, he was the president of IEEE, the largest professional society in the world with 380,000 members in 159 countries. He is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania.