Bowman to Head Purdue's School of Materials Engineering
Dec 14, 2007 — Keith J. Bowman has been appointed head of Purdue University’s School of Materials Engineering, effective Dec. 31. Bowman, a professor of materials engineering with another appointment in the Department of Engineering Education, replaces Alexander H. King, who will become director of Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. Bowman has taught and conducted research at Purdue's West Lafayette, Ind., campus since 1988 and was promoted to full professor in 1996. He was acting head of the department in...