Carnegie Mellon University faculty are visionaries in education, research, and creativity—bright minds who are leaders in their fields. Our passionate and dedicated professors pioneer breakthroughs in research, create and inspire great works, and enrich the learning of our students.
Professorships provide faculty with the resources to make exceptional educational experiences possible and reward these academic leaders for their commitment to Carnegie Mellon.
L to R: CMU Provost Jim Garrett, Nancy Strecker, Bill Strecker, Dean Burcu Akinci, and CMU President Farnam Jahanian at the Strecker Dean's Chair installation ceremony on Apr. 8, 2026
Deanship
- Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Endowed Dean’s Chair of the College of Engineering
Headships
Enrich academic leadership in a department or school, ensuring support for research and growth initiatives in that area
- Giorgio Coraluppi Endowed Headship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- David and Susan Coulter Endowed Headship in Mechanical Engineering
Full professorships
Empower faculty who have made distinguished contributions to their field of study and advance their research and education goals. Endowed funding helps CMU to invest in promising areas and advance breakthroughs in research and education
- ABB Professorship of Engineering
- Clarence H. Adamson Endowed Professorship of Mechanical Engineering
- Theodore Ahrens Professorship of Engineering
- Akhtar and Bhutta Endowed Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
- Alcoa Professorship of Materials Science and Engineering
- John and Claire Bertucci Distinguished Professorship in Engineering
- Walter J. Blenko, Sr. Professorship of Environmental Engineering
- Carnegie Bosch Professor of Operations Research
- Carnegie Bosch Associate Professor of Business Technologies
- Carnegie Bosch Assistant Professor of Operations Research
- Bosch Distinguished Professorship in Security and Privacy Technologies
- William J. Brown Professorship of Mechanical Engineering
- Buhl Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Chevron Chair in Chemical Engineering
- Paul P. Christiano Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Covestro Chair in Chemical Engineering
- Rudolph R. and Florence Dean Professorship in Chemical Engineering
- Philip and Marsha Dowd Professorship in Engineering
- Duquesne Light Company Professorship of Engineering
- Albert and Ethel Grobstein Professorship
- Teddy and Wilton Hawkins Professorship
- H.J. Heinz III Professorship of Environmental Engineering
- Howard Heinz Professorship of the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Stephen J. Jatras University Professorship
- Kavčić-Moura Professorship in Engineering
- Joseph F. and Nancy Keithley Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professorships of Mechanical Engineering
- Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
- Lester and Judith Lave Professorship in Economics, Engineering and Public Policy
- Thomas Lord Professorship in the College of Engineering I
- Thomas Lord Professorship in the College of Engineering II
- Thomas Lord Professor, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Engineering and Public Policy
- Thomas Lord Professorship in the College of Engineering III
- Robert Mehrabian Professorship
- William W. Mullins Professorship of Materials Science and Engineering
- Drew D. Perkins, CIT 1986, Professorship for Advanced Networking and Communications
- POSCO Professorship of Iron and Steel Making
- David Edward Schramm Memorial Professorship in Carnegie Institute of Technology
- Sense of Wonder Group Endowed Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering in AI Systems
- Siewiorek and Walker Family Chair
- STMicroelectronics Professorship in Engineering
- Dan and Karen Swanson Endowed Professor
- John E. Swearingen Professorship of Chemical Engineering
- Tan Family Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Tanoto Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Trustee Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Trustee Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Trustee Professor of Energy
- Trustee Professor of Engineering and Public Policy
- Trustee Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Trustee Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Trustee Professor
- Vacant
- U. S. Steel Professorship in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
- Ver Planck Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- George Westinghouse Professorship of Engineering
- U. A. and Helen Whitaker Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Howard M. Wilkoff Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Career development professorships
Advance junior faculty and their research and teaching initiatives by providing them with resources to create exceptional educational experiences
- ANSYS Career Development Chair in Engineering
- Bossa Nova Robotics Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence
- Robert E. Doherty Career Development Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering I
- Vacant
- Robert E. Doherty Career Development Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering II
- Vacant
- Gerard G. Elia Career Development Professorship in Engineering
- Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professorship I
- Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professorship II
- Vacant
- Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Vacant
- Angel Jordan Faculty Recognition Endowed Fund in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Henry Posner, Anne Molloy, and Robert and Christine Pietrandrea Career Development Chair in Civil Engineering
- Vacant
- Sathaye Family Foundation Career Development Professorship
- Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Endowed Professorship
- Vacant
- Russell V. Trader Faculty Fund in Mechanical Engineering