Russel C. Jones, P.E.
Head, Education and Human Resources
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Russel Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise L.L.C. to offer services to a
select clientele. He is Editor of the International Engineering Education Digest, a periodic electronic
newsletter. Prior to forming World Expertise L.L.C. as Managing Partner, he served as Executive
Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers, an individual member society for the licensed
professional engineer with offices in Alexandria VA. Dr. Jones received his education at Carnegie Institute of
Technology, earning degrees in civil engineering and materials science. Prior to returning to Carnegie for his
doctoral study, he worked as a practicing civil engineer. He has spent much of his career as an educator, starting
with engineering education and broadening to higher education as a whole. After completing his doctoral degree
in 1963, he taught for eight years on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then served in
a succession of administrative posts in higher education, for several years each: Chairman of Civil Engineering
at Ohio State University, Dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Academic Vice President at
Boston University, and President and University Research Professor at the University of Delaware.
Long active in the engineering profession, Dr. Jones has served as a national officer of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, has chaired major task committees for such groups as the American Society for Engineering
Education and the American Association of Engineering Societies, and has served as President of the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Currently, Dr. Jones is most active in consulting on the
enhancement of engineering education in developing countries, and in chairing volunteer activities in that area.
He is President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) Committee on Capacity Building,
developing programs to build technical capacity in developing countries in order to stimulate economic
development there. He is also President of the Committee on Engineering Education of the Pan American Union
of Engineering Associations (UPADI).
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