Dr. David E. Daniel is President Emeritus of the University of Texas at Dallas and an engineering consultant in Dallas, Texas. He earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering from UT Austin, and then spent 16 years on UT Austin’s faculty prior to moving to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he served as a Department Head and Dean of Engineering. In addition to serving as President of UT Dallas, he served for three years as Deputy Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer of the UT System in Austin. In 2000 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He has twice served as President of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST) and currently serves as Chair of the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Consortium Executive Committee in the Office of the Governor of Texas.