Richard Miller (engineer)

{{Short description|American academic administrator}}

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| order = 1st

| title = President of Olin College of Engineering

| term_start = 1999

| term_end = June 30, 2020

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| nationality = American

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| birth_name = Richard Keith Miller

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| birth_place = Fresno, California, U.S.

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| education = University of California, Davis (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
California Institute of Technology (PhD)

| spouse = Beth Miller

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| fields = Mechanical engineering

| workplaces = University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Southern California
University of Iowa
Olin College of Engineering

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| thesis_title = The Steady-State Response of Multidegree-of-Freedom Systems with a Spatially Localized Nonlinearity

| thesis_url = https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03052014-104111406

| thesis_year = 1976

| doctoral_advisor = {{Ill|Wilfred D. Iwan|de}}

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| awards = Bernard M. Gordon Prize (2013)}}

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Richard Keith Miller is an American engineer who was the founding president of Olin College since 1999. He stepped down from his role as president on June 30, 2020.{{Cite web|title=Olin College President Rick Miller Plans to Step Down {{!}} Olin College|url=http://www.olin.edu/news-events/2019/olin-college-president-rick-miller-plans-step-down/|website=www.olin.edu|access-date=2020-05-23}} His successor will be Gilda Barabino,{{Cite web|title=Olin College of Engineering Names Dr. Gilda Barabino as Its Second President {{!}} Olin College|url=http://www.olin.edu/news-events/2020/olin-college-engineering-names-dr-gilda-barabino-its-second-president/|website=www.olin.edu|access-date=2020-05-23}} dean of Grove School of Engineering. Previously, Miller was dean of the College of Engineering and a professor at the University of Iowa.

Miller received a B.S. in aerospace engineering in 1971 from the University of California, Davis and an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. In 1976, he received a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from the California Institute of Technology. {{ cite web | url=http://www.olin.edu/about/board-trustees/president%E2%80%99s-biography/ | title=President's Bio | publisher=Olin College of Engineering | accessdate=October 8, 2013}} {{Better source|reason=Primary|date=June 2017}}

In 2012, Miller was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for establishing a new paradigm for undergraduate engineering education and establishment of Olin College.