Lance Collins. Photo courtesy Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech announced Monday that Lance R. Collins, vice president and executive director of the university’s Innovation Campus, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2021.
The former Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University was named as head of Tech’s Innovation Campus in February 2020. He had led Cornell’s college of engineering since 2010 and joined the university as a professor in 2002; he was part of the leadership team at Cornell that bid to partner with New York City to build Cornell Tech, which opened in 2017.
He will be inducted in a ceremony on Oct. 3, bringing the organization’s membership to 2,355 people. Leidos Holdings Inc. Chairman and CEO Roger A. Krone will also be inducted in October.
