Dr. Julia Williams

Julia M. Williams joined the faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1992, then assumed duties as Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment in 2005. In 2016, she was appointed Interim Dean of Cross-Cutting Programs and Emerging Opportunities.  In this role, she supported the work of faculty who create multi-disciplinary learning opportunities for Rose-Hulman students.  Throughout her career at Rose-Hulman, she has blended her work in the classroom with work in assessment.

Williams’ publications on assessment, engineering and professional communication, and tablet PCs have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen-based Technologies in the Classroom, among others. She has been awarded grants from Microsoft, HP, the Engineering Communication Foundation, and National Science Foundation.  Currently she collaborates with colleagues at Rose-Hulman and at the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) to support the work of the Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) grant recipients.  She has received numerous awards including the 2015 Schlesinger Award (IEEE Professional Communication Society), and the 2010 Sterling Olmsted Award (ASEE Liberal Education Division). She is also the recipient of the 2008 Rose-Hulman Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholar Award and the 2004 Humanities and Social Sciences Department Outstanding Researcher Award.

Currently: Professor of English, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Formerly: (1) Interim Dean, Cross-Cutting Programs and Emerging Opportunities & Professor of English, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, (2) Executive Director, Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Education: (1) 1992 – Ph.D. English Literature, Emory University, (2) 1990 – M.A. English Literature, Emory University, (3) 1985 – Diploma, Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, (4) 1984 – B.A. English and Music, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX