Delcie Durham, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering, former Dean of the USF Graduate School, and past Dean of the Graduate College of the University of Vermont. Dr. Durham has engaged in pioneering research on sustainability and environmentally benign manufacturing, and demonstrated exceptional national leadership in advancing science. Her research focuses on sustainable materials processes, life cycle analysis and assessment, and green engineering design. For nine years, she was Program Director for the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Engineering Design and subsequently for Materials Processing and Manufacturing. While at NSF, Dr. Durham additionally served the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as External reviewer for the Board of Manufacturing and Engineering Design; as a member of the NAE Review Board of NIST MEL; and as Chair of the Review Panel for the Metal / Freeform Group Proposals for NASA. With other women program directors in the Engineering Directorate at NSF, she pioneered and co-sponsored a series of training workshops on academic leadership for women engineering faculty. She also was a member of the World Technologies Evaluation Center (WTEC) team that benchmarked industrial practices in renewable energy systems manufacturing in Europe and Asia. She is a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and served as President of the SME North American Manufacturing Research Institute and as International Director of SME. She received the NSF Director's Award for Management Excellence; and NSF Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation Distinguished Service Award. She holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont, Burlington.