{"id":21557,"date":"2013-05-14T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=21557"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:56:40","slug":"qa-nathan-klingbeil-dean-of-wright-states-college-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/05\/14\/qa-nathan-klingbeil-dean-of-wright-states-college-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Nathan Klingbeil, dean of Wright State\u2019s College of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On May 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/search\/results?q=Nathan%20Klingbeil\">Nathan Klingbeil<\/a>\u00a0became dean of Wright State University\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science after 14 years at the school, but he\u2019s done much more than teach.<\/p>\n<p>Klingbeil, who has also served as a researcher and administrator, helped change the school\u2019s curriculum in a way that re-invented engineering education for the school\u2019s students.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, he\u2019s secured $5 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation to grow and expand its engineering math program, as well as dozens of collaboration partners. The number of Wright State graduates in STEM fields has increased even as the numbers of students coming in to some of those programs went down.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/search\/results?q=Sundaram%20Narayanan\">Sundaram Narayanan<\/a>, who in March was selected as Wright State\u2019s newest provost.<\/p>\n<p>Klingbeil sat down with me and shared his secret to engineering student success.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/news\/2013\/05\/13\/qa-nathan-klingbeil-dean-of-wsus.html\" target=\"_blank\">BizJournals.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt On May 1\u00a0Nathan Klingbeil\u00a0became dean of Wright State University\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science after 14 years at the school, but he\u2019s done much more than teach. Klingbeil, who has also served as a researcher and administrator, helped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/05\/14\/qa-nathan-klingbeil-dean-of-wright-states-college-of-engineering\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21574,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions\/21574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}