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William M. Marcy, Ph.D., P.E.
Dean, College of Engineering
Texas Tech University

Bill Marcy is Dean of the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. He has served in that capacity since 1998. He served previously as Senior Associate Dean of Engineering from 1995 to 1998. He also served as the Chair of the Department of Computer Science from 1987 to 1995. He has substantial industrial and business experience serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Information Planning Corporation in Dallas, Texas, as Manager of Business Planning and Development for the National Supply Company in Houston, Texas and for 13 years as an outside director of FSI International, Chaska Minnesota.

His experience with the U.S Government includes employment by the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. from 1966 to 1974, eventually becoming the Chief of the Engineering and Planning Branch, Office of Security, Directorate for Administration. While an employee of the CIA he also served as Deputy Directory of the Interagency Training Center, which provided technical security training for all U.S. Government agencies with security responsibilities for U.S. Government facilities outside the United States.

His engineering background includes electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science. He is a licensed professional engineer in Texas (84408) in the discipline of software engineering. His research interests are real-time systems, robotics, automated reasoning, high-reliability software and computer security.