Bagley’s Bowden on WSU short list

The associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering is among three finalists for the position of heading Wichita State University’s College of Engineering. The trio will be on Kansas campus for talks with university officials next week, WSU officials said. MSU’s Royce Bowden Jr. will visit the campus from Aug. 14-16. He will take part in an open forum at Wallace Hall on Aug. 15. The other candidates are Atam Dhawan, interim dean at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and Arup Maji, senior technical adviser in Civil Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Source: Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, Aug. 6, 2013.