Meet the Dean

Dr. Elise Morgan

Dean, College of Engineering
Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design and Innovation

College of Engineering Dean Elise Morgan is the Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design and Innovation and the inaugural director of the Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology at Boston University.  She has faculty appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (primary), the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Elise Morgan is dean of the College of Engineering and the Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design and Innovation at Boston University. She holds a primary faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and additional appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering, as well as an appointment in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She was the founding director of the Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology at Boston University, and she co-directs the University’s Graduate Training Program in Biological Feedback Control. Prior to serving as dean, she was the College of Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development.

Dr. Morgan leads an internationally recognized research program in the mechanical behavior of bone and its capacity for regeneration. She has published more than 100 full-length papers, including seminal studies in biomechanics and mechanobiology that have been widely used to evaluate orthopaedic procedures and devices, to guide strategies for bone tissue engineering, and to develop new predictors of the risk of bone fracture in the elderly. Honors for Dr. Morgan’s research include awards from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, as well as membership in the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Morgan’s research has been cited more than 14,000 times and has received funding from multiple federal agencies, foundations, and industry partners.

In addition to her current and prior leadership positions in the College of Engineering, Dr. Morgan has served in varied capacities in her professional communities, including serving on boards of the Orthopaedic Research Society and journals such as the Journal of Biomechanics and Bone. She is a past chair of the Skeletal Biology, Structure, and Regeneration study section of the NIH Center for Scientific Review.

Dr. Morgan is strongly committed to expanding access and opportunity for all individuals in science and engineering. She is passionate about the power of engineering to create opportunities for individuals, communities, and entire nations, through technological innovation and upward mobility.

Dr. Morgan received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Surgery at Stanford University.