Shekhar Garde PhD

Dr. Shekhar Garde is the Dean of Engineering and Elaine and Jack Parker are Chaired professors in the Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Garde received his B. Chem. Eng. (University of Bombay, 1992) and Ph.D. (U. Delaware, 1997) in Chemical Engineering. He was Director’s post-doctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1997 to 1999.

Dr. Shekhar Garde joined Rensselaer in 1999 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate in 2004, and to Full Professor in 2006. He was appointed the Parker Chaired Professor in 2006 and as the Head of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department in 2007 and served in that role for seven years before becoming the Dean of Engineering in 2014.