David K. Holger, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Dean of the Graduate College
1550 Beardshear
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515-294-5553
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Profile
David Holger, Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Dean of the Graduate College at Iowa State University, received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1970, 1971, and 1974, respectively. He was a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge University during the 1971-1972 academic year and received a Certificate for Post-Graduate Research in Engineering from Cambridge in 1972. He joined the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at ISU in 1974 and was promoted to professor in 1984. In 1990, Holger was appointed chairman of the new Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics that was formed by the merger of the Department of Aerospace Engineering with the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. He was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Programs and budget of the College of Engineering in 1995. In 2004 he was named Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Dean of the Graduate College.
Research
Holger's areas of professional expertise are acoustics and noise control, and he spent several summers working as a research and development engineer for the Trane Company, the George Rolfes Company, and the United States Air Force Civil Engineering Center. He was awarded an NTNF (Norwegian) Senior Research Fellowship in 1986 and spent the 1986-1987 academic year as a visiting faculty researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He and his students have published numerous papers on various aspects of noise control and he is the co-holder of three U.S. patents.
Professional Service
His contributions as a faculty member at Iowa State were recognized by a Faculty Citation from the Alumni Association in 1993. He served as editor-in-chief of Noise Control Engineering Journal, the international archival journal of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, from 1996 through 2004. In 1997, he was appointed to the Engineering Accreditation Commission as a representative from AIAA. Additionally, he has served as chair of the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET's Criteria Committee from 1999 through 2002, as a member of the EAC Executive Committee since 2001, and is currently serving as chair of the EAC. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.
He has been active in professional and institutional service throughout his career. In 1996 he completed a two-year term as chairman of the Aerospace Department Chair's Association, has served as a member of the Aeroacoustics Technical Committee of the AIAA, and is an EAC ABET accreditation visitor for programs in aerospace engineering. He is currently a member of the Academic Affairs Committee and the Education Series Publications Advisory Board of AIAA, as well as the Technical Committee on Noise of the Acoustical Society of America. He was the technical chair for Noise Con 2003, the annual noise control engineering conference of INCE USA. He was president of the Iowa State University Faculty Senate (1989-1990), chair of the ISU Presidential Search Committee (1990-1991), chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on University Planning (1992-1994), chair of the ISU Strategic Planning Review Committee (1993-1994), and chair of the Engineering Curricular Initiatives Task Force (1991-1993). He also served as chair of the AIAA Academic Affairs Committee (1998-2003) and on the board of directors of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (1998-2001).
