Dean's Office

"As dean, I aim to create a richer dialogue between industry and academia, and to add a societal dimension to our scholarship and teaching. Santa Clara’s engineering school is ideally suited to carry out this vision because the University’s value system already embraces this notion. The partnerships we intend to create with industry will help us have an impact on Silicon Valley, California, and the world."

—Daniel Pitt, Dean, School of Engineering

Experience

Former vice president at Nortel Networks, where he established corporate best practices for comprehensive partnerships with leading universities, and developed architectures, advanced technologies, and product prototypes for Internet and voice-over IP products.
Co-founder of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley.
Executive at the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, where he managed a technical staff in nine cities and five countries, including Europe and Asia/Pacific, and established a joint research lab at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Vice president at Bay Networks, where he founded and built the Bay Architecture Lab, established an endowed chair at U.C. Berkeley, and sponsored joint research at leading universities including Harvard, Georgia Tech, and Lulea University in Sweden.
Adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina and Duke University.
Speaker and presenter who has lectured around the globe and has more than 50 publications to his credit.
Earned a master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois and a bachelor’s degree in math from Duke University.

Administrative Contact

Christine Woodward
Assistant to Dean
408-554-5417
cwoodward@scu.edu

Carquinez Bridge

In July 2003, Dr. Pitt and Dr. Chiesa toured construction of the new Carquinez Bridge. For more information on the Carquinez Bridge project, visit Caltrans.