Mary Sansalone studied literature and engineering as an undergraduate. She received her MS and PhD in engineering from Cornell University (1984, 1986) and an MPA from the Kennedy School at Harvard University (1999). She joined the faculty of engineering at Cornell University in 1987, where she spent nearly twenty years on the faculty, before becoming Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis in 2006. In 2010 she became Provost and later Vice Chancellor of the Asian University for Women, a start-up liberal arts college in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Dr Mary J Sansalone was appointed Vice Provost and Founding Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, in September 2013.
In her role as Vice Provost, Mary serves as the senior academic representative of the Provost in Pakistan, overseeing the operations of the Office of the Provost there, leads the University’s collaboration with the Aga Khan Education Services, and oversees the operations of the AKU Examination Board.
As Founding Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS), Mary is the chief academic and administrative officer for all academic programs within the faculty on all AKU campuses and has responsibility for overseeing the development of the FAS in both Arusha, Tanzania, and Karachi, Pakistan.
Research and Invention
Through a combination of theory, computer simulation, and laboratory and field experiments, Prof. Sansalone invented and perfected a method and an instrument, called Impact-Echo, for nondestructive evaluation of concrete and masonry structures (highways, buildings, bridges, dams, tunnels, etc.). She laid the theoretical and experimental foundation for this work while a Cornell graduate student (1983-86). After she joined the Cornell faculty in 1987, she and her graduate students developed a wide range of practical applications and invented a portable field instrument, publishing nearly 90 journal articles and research reports. Cornell patented the instrument in the US and over a dozen foreign countries. In the 1990’s she worked closely with Cornell’s Office of Technology Transfer and with industry to transfer knowledge about use of the method and instrument to engineers working on evaluation and repair of structures. Responding to a need from industry, she was the lead author of a book published in 1997 on Impact-Echo and its applications in the testing of concrete and masonry structures.
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